Class XII- Informatics Practices (065)

THEORY -ASSIGNMENTS
Assignment No. 1
COMPUTER NETWORKING

TYPE A: VERY SHORT ANSWER QUESTION

1. Define a network? Why is it needed?
2. What is an IP Address? How is it different from MAC address?
3. What is a domain name? How it is alternatively known?
4. What is the difference between MAN & WAN?
5. What is meant by topology? What are the factors that must be considered before making a choice
for the topology?
6. Give two advantages & two disadvantages of :-
(a) Star (b)Tree (c)
Bus
7. Define the following :-
(a) Hub (c) Firewall (b) Switch (e)
Blutooth
8. What is snooping?
9. What is eavesdropping?
10. Define Internet? Name some services offered by the Internet.

TYPE B: SHORT ANSWER QUESTION

1. What do you understand by Domain Name Resolution ?
2. What are communication channels ? Discuss various communication channels available for
network ?
3. Write some advantages and disadvantages of the following?
(a) Optical Fiber (c) Co-axial cable (e) Twisted Pair wire
(b) Radio Waves (d) Microwave (f) Satellites
4. Discuss & compare various types of networks ?
5. Compare and contrast :-
(a) Star & Bus topologies
(b) Star & Tree topologies
(c) Bus & Ring topologies
6. What are hubs ? How it is different from switch?
7. Briefly discuss the function of :-
(a) Repeater (b) Gateway (c) Switch
8. What do you mean by system Security? What are common threats to network security?
9. What are Denial of Services (DoS) Attacks?
10. How can you can prevent yourself from various threats of network security ?
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Assignment No. 2
OPEN SOURCE CONCEPTS

TYPE A: VERY SHORT ANSWER QUESTION

1. Expand the terms: OSI, FLOSS, FSF, GNU, GPL, W3C, and OSS.
2. Define the following-
(a) Freeware (b) Shareware. (c) FLOSS (d) LAMP
3. What for are these software used?
(a) Linux (b) Mozilla Firefox (c) PHP (e) Apache (f) MySQL.
4. What is openoffice.org?

5. Which of the following are open standards?

.DOC .SVG .TTF .JPEG
6. What is a font? What is OTF?
7. Define: (a) ODF (b) Ogg Vorbis (c) TTF
8. What is Unicode? What is ISCII?
9 . What are following ODF file extensions meant for?
(a) odt (b) ods (c) odp (d) odg (e) odb.

TYPE B: SHORT ANSWER QUESTION

1. Compare the followings-
(a) Free Software & Open source software
(b) Proprietary software & free software
(c) Static & dynamic fonts

2. What characteristics make a standard an open standard? Discuss some advantages of Open
standard over Proprietary standard.
3. How phonetic text entry is different from key map based text entry?

1.
INTRODUCTION TO XML

TYPE A: VERY SHORT ANSWER QUESTION

1. Expand the following:
(a) XML (b) EDI (c) CSS (d) DTD.
2. What is XML? What do you mean by Extensible in XML?.
3. Differentiate between XML and HTML.
4. Name some markup language based on XML.
5. What is prolog? What is data instance?
6. Write some features of XML.
7. What is valid document?
8. Name a meta-language?
9. Think of situation where HTML should be preferred over XML?
10. What is the role of Style sheet in XML file system?
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Assignment No. 3

TYPE A : VERY SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS

1. Define the following terms:
(I) DBMS (ii) View (iii) data security (iv) data integrity (v) Relation
(vi) domain (vii) tuple (viii) attribute (ix) Degree (x) cardinality
1. What is data redundancy? What are the problems associated with it?
2. What is data model? Name various data model?
3. How do database management systems ensure data security and privacy?
4. What do you mean by referential Integrity? How it is enforced in DBMS?
5. What is Key? Define the following keys-
(I) Primary key (ii) Candidate key (iii) Alternate key (IV) Foreign key.
6. What types of commands are used in the following categories?
1. DDL 2. DML
3. TCL 4. System control commands
7. What do you mean by Data dictionary? What it consist of?
8. What is data type? Name some data types available in MySQL.
9. Compare Char and Varchar data types?
10. Which keyword eliminates the redundant data from a query result?
11. How would you display system date as the result of a query?
12. Which function is used to substitute Null values in a query result?
13. Which operator concatenates two strings in a query result?
14. What command is used for-
1. To change/open a database 2. To view the table structure.
15. Which comparison operator is used for comparing?
(i) Patterns (ii) character value (iii) null values (iv) ranges (v) list of values
16. Define a function. Why they are useful?
17. Write commands to display the system date.
18. Write a command to display the name of current month.
19. Write command to print the day of the week of your birthday in the year 1999.
20. What is the difference between SYSDATE() and NOW() function?
21. Consider two fields B_date, which stores the birth date and J_date, which stores the joining date of
an employee. Write commands to find out and display the approximate age of an employee as on
joining date.
22. Which is a constraint? Name some constraint that you can apply to enhance database integrity.
23. What is Primary key? What is PRIMARY KEY constraint?
24. What is the role of UNIQUE constraint? How is PRIMARY KEY constraint different from UNIQUE
constraint?
25. What is NOT NULL constraint? What are DEFAULT constraints?
26. When column’s value is skipped in an INSERT command, which value is inserted in the database?
27. How would you view the structure of table Dept?
28. …………… command removes the table along with its structure and indexes.
29. …………… command removes all the row but not table structure.
30. Identify the error in “DELETE ALL FROM TABLE EMPL” command ?
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TYPE B : SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS

1. What is Database Management System? Discuss its advantages.
2. What is Data Abstraction? Draw a diagram explaining various levels of data abstraction.
3. What is meant by “Data independence”? Explain difference between Logical and Physical data
independence.
4. What is MySQL? Describe its features?
5. Differentiate between DDL and DML commands?
6. How constraints ensure the validity of data? Explain various types of constraints with example.
7. What is FOREIGN key? How do you define foreign key in your table?
8. How is FOREIGN KEY different from PRIMARY KEY command?
9. What is default value? How do you define it? What is default value for a column for which no value
is defined?
10. Differentiate between:
(i) DROP TABLE & DROP DATADABASE
(ii) DROP TABLE & DROP clause of ALTER TABLE.
11. Explain the following functions with syntax, purpose and example.
1) CONCAT() 2) SUBSTR() 3) TRIM() 4) INSTR()
5) MID() 6) MOD() 7) POW() 8) ROUND()
9) CURDATE() 10) NOW() 11) SYSDATE() 12) DAYNAME()
Table: Empl
empno ename job mgr hiredate sal comm
8369 SMITH CLERK 8902 1990-12-18 800.00 NULL
8499 ANYA SALESMAN 8698 1991-02-20 300.00
1600.00

8521 SETH SALESMAN 8698 1991-02-22 1250.00 500.00

8566 MAHADEVAN MANAGER 8839 1991-04-02 NULL
2985.00
8654 MOMIN SALESMAN 8698 1991-09-28 1250.00 1400.00
8698 BINA MANAGER 8839 1991-05-01 2850.00 NULL
8882 SHIVANSH MANAGER 8839 1991-06-09 2450.00 NULL
8888 SCOTT ANALYST 8566 1992-12-09 NULL
3000.00
8839 AMIR PRESIDENT NULL 1991-11-18 5000.00 NULL
8844 KULDEEP SALESMAN 8698 1991-09-08 0.00
1500.00

12. Consider the Empl table and write SQL command to get the following.
a. Write a query to display EName and Sal of employees whose salary are greater than or equal to
2200?
b. Write a query to display details of employs who are not getting commission?
c. Write a query to display employee name and salary of those employees who don’t have their
salary in range of 2500 to 4000?
d. Write a query to display the name, job title and salary of employees who don’t have manager?
e. Write a query to display the name of employee whose name contains “A” as third alphabet?
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f. Write a query to display the name of employee whose name contains “T” as last alphabet?
g. Write a query to display the name of employee whose name contains ”M” as First and “L” as third
alphabet?
h. Write a query to display details of employs with the text “Not given”, if commission is null?

13. Write SQL command for the following in the basis of given table (Club)?

COACH_ID COACH AGE SPORTS Dsteofapp PAY SEX

1 KUKREJ 35 KARATE 27/3/1996 1000 M
2 RAVINA 34 KARATE 20/01/1998 1200 F
3 KARAN 34 SQUASH 19/02/1998 2000 M
4 TARUN 33 SWIMMIN 01/01/1998 1500 M
5 ZUBIN 36 SWIMMIN 12/01/1998 750 M

a. To show all information about the swimming coaches in the club.

b. To list names of all coaches with their date of appointment in descending order.
c. To display report, showing coachmen pay, age and bonus (15% of pay).
14. Write SQL command for the following in the basis of given table (Student)?

No Name Stipend Stream Avg Grad Clas

1 Karan 400 Science 78.5 B 12B
2 Diwakar 450 Commerce 89.2 A 11C
… ………. …… ……….. ….. … ….
a. Select all the Non medical stream students from this table.
b. List names of those students who are in class 12 stored in stipend.
c. List all student stored by avg marks in descending order.
d. Display a report, listing name, stipend, stream, and amount of stipend received in a year
assuming that stipend is paid every month.
15. Write SQL commands for the following on the basis of given table.
Table: LIBRARY
No. Title Author Type Pub Qty Price
1 Data Structure Lipschu DS McGraw 4 217
2 Computer studies French FND Galgotia 2 75
3 Advanced Pascal Schildt PRO McGraw 4 350
4 Dbase dummies Palmer DBM PustakM 5 130
5 Mastering C++ Gurewi PRO BPB 3 295

a. Select all the PROG type published by BPB from Library.

b. Display a list of all books with Price more than 130 and stored by Qty.
c. Display all the books stored by Price in ascending order.
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16. Write SQL commands for the following on the basis of given table relation Teacher.

No. NAME Age Department Dateofjoin Salary Sex

1 Jugal 33 Computer 10/01//97 12000 M
2 Sharmila 31 History 23/03/98 20000 F
3 Sandeep 32 Maths 12/12/96 30000 M
4 Sanggeta 35 History 01/07/99 40000 F
5 Rakesh 42 Maths 05/09/97 25000 M
6 Shaym 50 History 27/06/98 30000 M
7 Shiv Om 44 Computer 25/02/97 21000 M
8 Shalakha 33 Math 31/07/97 20000 F
a. To show all information about the teacher of history department.
b. To list the names of female teachers who are in Hindi department.
c. To list names of all teachers with their date of joining in ascending order.

17. Given the following table:

TABLE: CLUB
COACH_ID COACHNAME AGE SPORTS DATOFAPP PAY SEX
1 KUKREJA 35 KARATE 1996-03-27 1000 M
2 RAVINA 34 KARATE 1998-01-20 1200 F
3 KARAN 34 SQUASH 1998-02-19 2000 M
4 TARUN 33 BASKETBALL 1998-01-01 1500 M
5 ZUBIN 36 SWIMMING 1998-01-12 750 M
6 KETAKI 36 SWIMMING 1998-02-24 800 F
7 ANKITA 36 SQUASH 1998-02-20 2200 F
8 ZAREEN 37 KARATE 1998-02-22 1100 F
Give the output of following SQL statements:
(i) SELECT LCASE (SPORTS) FROM Club;
(ii) SELECT MOD (Age, 5) FROM CLUB WHERE Sex =’F’;
(iii) SELECT POWER (3, 2) FROM CLUB WHERE Sports=’KARATE’;
(iv) SELECT SubStr (CoachName, 1, 2) FROM CLUB WHERE Datofapp>’1998-01-31’; 18.
Consider the following table and answer the following-
Table: Empl
empno ename job mgr hiredate sal comm
8369 SMITH CLERK 8902 1990-12-18 800.00 NULL

8499 Anya SALESMAN 8839 1991-02-20 1600.00 300.00

…. ………. ……… ….. ………. ……. …..

a) Update all Ename so that it contains the entire name in capital letters.
b) Increase the salary of employee by 10% in Empl table.
c) Give commission of Rs 500 to all employees who joined in year 1982 in Empl table
d) Modify table Empl, add another column called Grade of VARCHAR type size 1 into it.
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e) In the added column Grade, assign grade as follows. if sal is in range 0-2000 then Grade is 1
If sal is in range 2001-3000 then Grade is 2
If sal is in range 3001 or higher then Grade is 3
f) Display the details of employees who are working under the employee named AMIR.
g) Modify the definition of column Grade. Increase its size to 2.
h) Drop the table Empl.
19. Create the table Employee based on the following table instance Chart.
Column name ID FirstName LastName DeptID
Data Type NUMBER VARCHAR VARCHAR NUMBER
Length 8 25 25 8
20. Write the command for the following-
a) Create table CUSTOMER as per following Table structure.
Column Name CustID CustName CustAdd1 CustAdd2 CustPhone
Data Type NUMBER VARCHAR VARCHAR VARCHAR VARCHAR
Length 7 30 20 30 10
b) Add one column Email of data type VARCHAR and size 30 to table Customer.
c) Add one more column CustIncomeGroup of data type VARCHAR(10).
d) Insert few records with relevant information in the Customer table.
e) Drop the column CustomerIncomeGroup from table Customer.

Assignment No. 4
DATABASE TRANSACTIONS
TYPE A: VERY SHORT ANSWER QUESTION
1. What is a Transaction?
2. Define the following-
a) Atomicity b) Consistency c) Isolation d) Durability
3. What are two way in which multiple transactions can be executed?
4. What is Savepoint? What is the role of Savepoint in the Transaction?
5. Describe the following command –
a) COMMIT b) ROLLBACK c) SAVEPOINT

TYPE B: SHORT ANSWER QUESTION

1. Describe briefly the ACID Properties of the Transaction?
2. What are the advantages and limitation of serial execution of transaction?
3. Why do we use Savepoint? Explain with an example.
4. What do you understand by All-or-none concept in context of transaction handling?
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Assignment No. 5
SQL- GROUPING AND JOINING TABLES
TYPE A: VERY SHORT ANSWER QUESTION
1. What are Single Row and Multiple row functions?
2. What is significance of GROUP BY clause in a SQL query?
3. What is difference between Where and Having clause in SQL select command?
4. Write a query to find out Sum, Average, lowest and highest Marks in Student table?
5. Write a query to find out Sum, Average, lowest and highest Marks of the students in STUDENT
table grouped by STREAM?
6. Write a query to find out number of student in each Stream in STUDENT table?
7. What is a Join? How many types of join can you create in MySQL?
8. Can you join two tables without using Join keyword?
9. What id difference between ON and USING join-clause?
10. How is natural join different from an Equi-join?
TYPE B: SHORT ANSWER QUESTION
1. Consider the following EMP and DEPT table -
Table: Emp
EmpNo EmpName City Designation DOJ Sal Comm DeptID
8369 SMITH Mumbai CLERK 1990-12-18 800.00 NULL 20

8499 ANYA Varanasi SALESMAN 1991-02-20 1600.00 300.00 30

8521 SETH Jaipur SALESMAN 1991-02-22 1250.00 500.00 30

8566 MAHADEVAN Delhi MANAGER 1991-04-02 2985.00 NULL 20

… ……….. …….. ……… ………. …….. ….. …

Table: DEPT
DeptID DeptName MgrID Location
10 SALES 8566 Mumbai

20 PERSONEL 9698 Delhi

30 ACCOUNTS 4578 Delhi

40 RESEARCH 8839 Banglore

Write the SQL command to get the following.

a. Show the minimum, maximum and average salary of Managers.
b. Count the number of Clerk in the Organization.
c. Display the Designation wise list of employees with name, Sal and Date of Joining.
d. Count the number of employees who are not getting commission.
e. Show the average salary for all departments with more than 5 working people.
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f. List the count of Employees grouped by DeptID.

g. Display the maximum salary of employees in each Department.
h. Display the name of Employees along with their Designation and Department Name.
i. Count the number of Employees working in ACCOUNTS department.
j. Display the name of employees working in Delhi.
k. Display the name of employees working in the same city from where they belongs.
l. Display the name of Employees who is managing SALES department.
m. Display the name of employees who are working in Delhi and getting more than 5000.
n. Display the details of employees who are working in RESEARCH Department.
o. Find out the name of all Salesman who are not working in Mumbai.

2. Consider the following structure of TEACHER and STUDENT table -

Table: TEACHER
TeacherID TName City Subject Qualification Designation Pay

Table: STUDENT
StdID Name FName Stream TeacherID

Write the SQL command to get the following.

a. Show the name of students enrolled in Science stream.
b. Count the number of students in Commerce Stream.
c. Count the number of teachers in each designation.
d. Display the maximum pay of teacher who is teaching English.
e. Display the name of students who are taught by “Anand Mathur”.
f. Display the name and designation of teachers who are teaching to a student named “Amit”.
g. Find out the name of teacher who is getting highest pay.
h. Find out the city of teachers who are teaching Math subject.
i. Find out the name of teacher who is getting lowest salary in PGTs.
j. Display the list of students who are taught by PGTs only.
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Assignment No. 6
TABLES & INTEGRITY CONSTRAINTS
TYPE A: VERY SHORT ANSWER QUESTION
1. What are constraints? Name the different constraints that can apply on a table?
2. Can you have multiple Primary key in a table?
3. Can you have multiple foreign keys in a table?
4. What do mean by Column level and Table level constraints?
5. Which command is used to delete the constraints from the table?
6. Which command is used to see the structure of a table along with Constraints?
7. Which constraint is used to implement user defined policies or conditions?
8. How is Unique constraints different from Primary Key constraints?
9. What is the role of NOT NULL constraints?
10. How you can disable Foreign Key constraints in a table?
TYPE B: SHORT ANSWER QUESTION
1. What are Referential Integrity? Which constraint is used to implement this integrity rule?
2. How you define a Foreign Key constraint? Explain with an example.
3. How you can add a constraint? Explain with an example.
4. What do the following actions do with foreign key constraint:
a. ON DELETE CASCADE
b. ON UPDATE RESTRICT
c. ON DELETE SET NULL
5. Write the command for the following-
a. Create table CUSTOMER as per following Table structure.
Column Name CustID CustName CustAdd1 CustAdd2 CustPhone
Data Type NUMBER VARCHAR VARCHAR VARCHAR VARCHAR
Length 7 30 20 30 10
b. Add one column Email of data type VARCHAR and size 30 to table Customer.
c. Add one more column CustIncomeGroup of data type VARCHAR(10).
d. Insert few records with relevant information in the Customer table.
e. Drop the column CustomerIncomeGroup from table Customer.
6. Write the commands for the followings:
a. Create table CUSTOMER as per following Table structure
Col. name EmpID EmpName EmpAdd EmpPhone EmpSal DeptID
Key type Primary Foreign
Nulls /Unique NOT NULL
Fk Table Department
Fk Column Dept_ID
Datatype NUMBER VARCHAR VARCHAR VARCHAR NUMBER VARCHAR
Length 6 20 30 10 9,2 2
b. Delete the Primary key constraints from the CUSTOMER table.
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c. Change the datatype of EmpSal to Number(10,2) from Number (9,2).

Assignment No. 7
IT APPLICATIONS
TYPE A: VERY SHORT ANSWER QUESTION
1. Define the following-
b) E-Governance b) E-Business c) E-Learning
2. List any five web portal with their purposes involved in E-Governance.
3. List any five web portal with their purposes involved in E-Commerce or Business.
4. List any five web portal with their purposes involved in E-Learning
5. Define the followings-
1. Entity 2. Attribute 3. Relation 4. Relationship

TYPE B: SHORT ANSWER QUESTION

1. How has society benefitted from e-governance? What are the limitations of e-governance?
2. How has society benefitted for e-business? Discuss its limitations?
3. How has society benefitted for e-learning? Discuss its societal impacts?
4. Discuss some popular e-business types incorporated through e-business systems.
5. What is meant by E-governance Model? How E-Government interacts Citizen, Business and
Government.
6. What do mean by Front-end and Back-end?
7. What is GUI Interface? Discuss some guidelines be followed during design of Interface.
8. What do you mean by DDLC? What are the major steps followed during design of a Database?
9. What is ER-Diagram? How it helps you to model the database?
10. What types of relationship are found among entities? Discuss with examples.