Central Board of Secondary Education

Question Paper 2015

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Series SSO Code No. 90
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 Please check that this question paper contains 7 questions.
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 15 minute time has been allotted to read this question paper. The question
paper will be distributed at 10.15 a.m. From 10.15 a.m. to 10.30 a.m., the
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students will read the question paper only and will not write any answer on the
answer-book during this period.
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INFORMATICS PRACTICES
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Time allowed : 3 hours Maximum Marks : 70

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(i) All questions are compulsory.

(ii) Answer the questions after carefully reading the text.
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1. (a) A school with 20 stand-alone computers is considering networking

them together and adding a server. State 2 advantages of doing this. 1

(b) Distinguish between LAN and WAN. 1

(c) What is the purpose of Modem in network ? 1

(d) Write one example of IP Address. 1

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(e) Define ‘Domain Name Resolution’. 2

(f) Name two threats to security in a network. What is the role of

Firewall in Network security ? 2

(g) Write one advantage and one disadvantage of Open Source

software over Proprietary software. 2

2. (a) Write the value of variable ‘c’ after execution of the following code : 1

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(b) What is the difference between jTextField and jPasswordfield

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components ? 1

(c) In a SWITCH statement, what is the purpose of ‘default’ section ?

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(d) After typing the HTML code using a text editor, how do you see
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(e) Write Java code to assign the value 500 to variable x. Increase
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the value of x by 50 and store it in variable y. 2

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(f) Write the output that will be generated by the code given below : 2
int i;
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r=8;
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while (i<=10)
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System.out.println(r*i);
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(g) ‘‘With XML there are no predefined tags’’ – Explain in brief with
the help of an example. 2

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3. (a) What is MySQL ? 1

(b) Is NULL value the same as 0 (zero) ? Write the reason for your
answer. 1

(c) Write the UPDATE command to increase the commission

(Column name : COMM) by 500 of all the Salesmen who have
achieved Sales (Column name : SALES) more than 200000. The
table’s name is COMPANY. 1

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(d) While using SQL pattern matching, what is the difference

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between ‘_’ (underscore) and ‘%’ wildcard symbols ? 1

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(g) What is a Transaction ? Which command is used to make
changes done by a Transaction permanent on a database ? 2
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underlining all the corrections made. 2

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int marks, temperature;

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marks = jTextField1.getText());
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if (marks < 80) and (temperature >= 40)

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{
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}
else;
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System.out.println("OK");
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(b) How many times will the following WHILE loop execute ? 2
int y = 7, sum = 0;
while (y<= 15)
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sum = sum + y;
y = y+2;
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SWITCH statement : 2

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case 9: tour = "\n You are going to Manali, Rohtang
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sum = sum + (x++);

(e) What will be the contents of jTextField1 and jTextField2 after

executing the following code : 2
String s = "Best";
jTextField1.setText(s.length()+" ");
jTextField2.setText(s.toUpperCase());

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(f) The students of ‘‘Shiksha Vidyalaya’’ work for different extra
curricular activities like ‘Community Outreach Programme’,
‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyan’ and ‘Traffic Safety Club’. The
Programmer at the school has developed a GUI application as
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 A student can participate in more than one activities.

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 Each student gets 10 points for each activity – namely

Community Outreach Programme, Swachh Bharat
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Abhiyan and Traffic Safety Club.

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Help the programmer to write code for the following :

(i) When ‘Calculate Total Score’ button is clicked, the points
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for each activity (that is selected) should be displayed in

the text field in front of that activity’s checkbox and the
Total Score should be displayed in the appropriate Text
field. 3
(ii) When Clear button is clicked, all the Textfields and
Checkboxes should be cleared. 1
(iii) When Stop button is clicked, the application should close. 1
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5. (a) Distinguish between Single Row and Aggregate functions of MySQL.

Write one example of each. 2
(b) Consider the following table named ‘‘SOFTDRINK’’. Write
commands of SQL for (i) to (iv) and output for (v) to (vii).
Table : SOFTDRINK
DRINKCODE DNAME PRICE CALORIES
101 Lime and Lemon 20.00 120
102 Apple Drink 18.00 120

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103 Nature Nectar 15.00 115

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104 Green Mango 15.00 140

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105 Aam Panna 20.00 135
106 Mango Juice Bahaar 12.00 150

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(i) To display names and drink codes of those drinks that have

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more than 120 calories. 1
(ii) To display drink codes, names and calories of all drinks, in
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descending order of calories. 1
(iii) To display names and price of drinks that have price in the
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range 12 to 18 (both 12 and 18 included). 1
(iv) Increase the price of all drinks in the given table by 10%. 1
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(v) SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT(PRICE)) FROM SOFTDRINK; 1

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(vi) SELECT MAX (CALORIES) FROM SOFTDRINK; 1

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(vii) SELECT DNAME FROM SOFTDRINK WHERE DNAME

LIKE “%Mango%”; 1
(c) What is the degree and cardinality of ‘SOFTDRINK’ TABLE ? 1
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6. (a) Write MySQL command to create the Table ‘LIBRARY’ with given
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constraints. 2
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Table : LIBRARY
COLUMN_NAME DATATYPE(SIZE) CONSTRAINT
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BookId Int(10) Primary Key

BookName Varchar(40) Not Null
Type Char(4)
Author Varchar(40)
No_Copies Int(6)
Price Decimal(8,2)

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(b) In a Database Company, there are two tables given below :

Table : SALES

SALESMANID NAME SALES LOCATIONID

S1 ANITA SINGH ARORA 250000 102

S2 Y.P. SINGH 1300000 101

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S3 TINA JAISWAL 1400000 103

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S4 GURDEEP SINGH 1250000 102

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LOCATIONID LOCATIONNAME
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104 Chennai
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(i) To display SalesmanID, names of salesmen, LocationID with

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location names who have achieved Sales more than 1300000. 2

(iii) To display names of those salesmen who have ‘SINGH’ in

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their names. 2

(iv) Identify Primary key in the table SALES. Give reason for
your choice. 1

(v) Write SQL command to change the LocationID to 104 of the

Salesman with ID as S3 in the table ‘SALES’. 1

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7. (a) How does e-learning allow students to study at their own pace ? 2

(b) How does e-governance empower citizens ? Write one point. 1

(c) Sabeena is creating a form for the hotel where she works. Help
her to choose most appropriate controls from ListBox, ComboBox,
TextField, TextArea, RadioButton, Checkbox, Label, and
Command Button for the following entries : 2

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To allow selecting type of room out of Deluxe,
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