QUESTION BANK CLASS – IX th

Lesson 1
EVOLUTION AND HISTORY OF COMPUTER
Very Short answer type question:-
1. What are strengths and weakness of computer?
2. Describe the function of CPU.
3. Discuss the function of light pen.
4. Discuss various types of scanner.
5. Describe the working of MICR and OCR.
6. Why is networking needed?
7. What do you understand by:-
8. 1)URL 2)Multimedia
9. What is a modem? How does it work?
10. What are different components of computer network?
11. What do you understand by E-Mail? What is its signifance?
12. What is a protocol? How do protocol affect internet?
13. What is a System Software? Name any 5 system software.
14. Compare Machine and Assembly language.
15. How are 3rd generation language are different from 4th generation language?

Short answer type question:-

1. What is Application Software? Why is it required?
2. Compare interpreter and a complier.
3. What are various types of Operating System?
4. Why is auxiliary memory required?
5. Compare Barcode Reader and Magnetic ink Character Reader?
6. Describe briefly, applications of computer.
7. Why are storage devices needed? Name and discuss some most common storage
devices.
8. How can computers be classified?
9. What is a Pointing Device? Name & discuss some of the pointing devices.
10. Describe all categories of Computer Software, in detail.

Long answer type question:-

1. Explain 2nd and 3rd generation, with its relevant devices.
2. What is a Network? What are various types of network? Discuss about various
components in a computer network.
 3. Discuss various categories of printer? Also explain two –two printer of each categories.
4. Define Internet. Also explain history of internet.
5. What are the three basic unit of computer? Also explain functioning of each unit
separately.

Lesson 2
THE COMPUTER SYSTEM
Very Short answer type question:-
1. What is an operating system? Name its function.
2. What is the significance of recycle bin?
3. What is the role of window explorer in windows operating system?
4. Differentiate between Notepad and WordPad.
5. Define indentation &Line Spacing.
6. Define different type of Margins and define them.
7. What do you understand by Word wrapping and Clipboard?
8. Different between Mirror margin and Gutter margin.
9. What is the signifance of electronic spreadsheet?
10. What do you mean by all referencing? Explain types off all referencing.
11. Differentiate between Chart sheet and embedded chart?
12. Write applications areas of electronic spreadsheet?
13. What are basic components of a slide?
14. What do you understand by slide show?
15. What is slide layout? Mention some slide layout in PowerPoint?

Short answer type question:-

1. How headers and footers are useful?
2. What do you mean by transitions?
3. Differentiate cell pointers & current cell?
4. What do you mean by Spell check of a document in a word processor?
5. What do you mean by word wrapping?
6. Write steps for textured background in MS- PowerPoint.
7. Describe all PowerPoint views with their descriptions.
8. Explain all components of MS-Excel screen?

Long answer type question:-

1. Write steps for creating charts in MS-Excel? Explain.
2. Write steps for applying Mail Merge features in MS-Word.
3. Explain Autocorrect, Auto complete and Auto text feature.
 4. Explain all features of Word-Processor.
5. Define Operating System? Explain all functions of Operating System?

Lesson 3
OPEN SOURCE
Very Short answer type question:-

1. What is freeware?
2. What is shareware?
3. What is proprietary software?
4. Give two examples of open source software?
5. What is GNU?
6. What is free software?
7. What is source code?
8. What is non-open source software?
9. What is open source software?
10.What is commercial software?
11.What is LINUX?
12.What is Firefox?
13.What is floss?
14.What is OSI?
15.What is FSF?

Short answer type question:-

1. What is freeware? Give an example.
2. What is shareware? Give an example.
3. What is proprietary software? Give two examples.
4. What is open source software? Give two examples.
5. Difference between FSF and OSI.
6. Difference between FLOSS and GNU.
7. Explain all categories of open source software.
8. Write rights to the user granted by open source software.
9. Explain the classification of software?
10. Describe applications of software.

Long answer type question:-

 1. How can software be classified based on availability of source code?
2. write short notes on the following:
a. FLOSS, GNU FSF and OSI
3. What do you understand by the term open source? Describe its main types.
Giving two main advantages of each.
4. Describe the difference between open source and non-open source
software.
5. Describe the difference between freeware and shareware?

Lesson 4
OPERATING SYSTEM
Very Short answer type question:-
1. What is an operating system?
2. What are the two main functions of operating system?
3. Name the icon that provides access to all drives, files, and folders on the computer.
4. What is recycle bin?
5. Describe the procedure for emptying recycle bin?
6. Where is the taskbar present by default?
7. Describe the procedure for renaming s file/folder.
8. What is the difference between moving a folder and copying it?
9. What is ICON?
10. What is TASKBAR?
11. What is SHORTCUT?
12. What is NOTEPAD?
13. What is CLIPBOARD?
14. What is WordPad?
15. What is difference between notepad and WordPad.

Short answer type question:-

11. What is the procedure to rename a file?
12. How to rename and copying a file?
13. What is Window XP?
14. What is taskbar?
15. What windows explorer?
16. What is the procedure for viewing a file?
17. What is the procedure for creating a shortcut?
18. What are basic Window Accessories?
19. Define MS-Paint?
 20. What is clip book viewer?

Long answer type question:-

1. What is calculator? Briefly describe their types.
2. What is the function of minimize, maximize and close buttons?
3. How would you change the size of the window manually?
4. Describe the procedure for a. creating a new file folder and
b. Creating a shortcut
5. Write short notes on any two windows accessories.

Lesson 5
EDITING AND FORMATTING IN A WORD PROCESSOR
Very Short answer type question:-

1. What are word processors?

2. Name the two types of word processors?
3. What do you understand by insertion point?
4. How would you open an existing MS Word document?
5. What do you understand by UNDO and REDO?
6. What is thesaurus?
7. What is line spacing?
8. How would you insert a page break?
9. What are headers and footers?
10.What is formatting?
11.What is format painter?
12.What is alignment?
13.What is paragraph spacing?
14.What is line spacing?
15.What is header footer?

Short answer type question

1. What is difference between header and footer?

 2. What are Tab stop used for?
3. Put down the procedure of saving a newly typed document on word
4. What do the red and green wavy lines under some words stand for?
5. What is the procedure of checking the spellings as used in Ms Word Put
down two ways of starting Ms Word?
6. You want to underline a sentence. Your insertion point is within the
sentence. However, when you click the Underline button, only one word is
underlined. Why? How do u correct the problem?
7. Suppose you have just deleted paragraphs from pages one, two and three.
You then realize that the paragraph on the second page should not have
been deleted. What can you do to bring back this paragraph?
8. Word does not bring up the word ‘thief’ as a mistake when checking the
spelling in a document. What could be the reason for this?
9. Your AutoCorrect list contains the word ‘waht’ to be corrected as ‘what’
among others. You retrieve a document that already had some spelling
mistakes including those in the AutoCorrect list. Why does the Autocorrect
not correct these words when you retrieve the file?
10. Suppose you are doing grammar check and Word offers a suggestion that
you do not understand. What is the best thing to do?
Long answer type question
1. You have typed in a list of guests inviting them to a fund raising ceremony.
Because the list is long, it is rather difficult to read through the list. What
can make this list more legible?
2. On clicking the bullets button, you get a bullet type different from what
you want to use. How do you get word to use the bullet type you want Give
a brief account of Auto Formatting.
3. How will you insert a page break?
4. How will you insert a page break?
5. Write the steps involved in changing name of file or folder.

Lesson 6
MORE FEATURES OF A WORD PROCESSORS
Very Short answer type question:-
1. What are bullets?
2. What is Clip Art?
3. In which case would you use a numbered list instead of a bulleted list?
4. What is the Word Art Feature used for?
5. How would you remove a Numbering in a List?
6. How would you display the picture toolbars?
 7. How can borders and shading be applied to a table?
8. What is sorting?
9. What are News Papers style columns?
10. What is drawing objects?
11. How to insert a Table?
12. What is Mail Merge?
13. How to insert a symbols?
14. Write the steps of changing orientation of cell contents.
15. Write the steps for deleting tables, columns, rows or cells.

Short answer type question:-

1. How to change the background of the table?
2. Write the steps for inserting the newspaper style columns?
3. Write the steps for inserting drawing objects.
4. Write the steps for creating a drawing?
5. Write the steps for selecting a different numbering style?
6. Write the steps for creating a Mail Merge.
7. Describe the procedure for creating a bulleted list and a numbered list.
8. Why is mail merging Useful?
9. How can borders and shading be applied to a table?
10. Explain in which case would you use a numbered list instead of a bulleted list?

Long answer type question:-

1. What is Clip Art? What is the Word Art Feature used for?
2. What is Mail Merge? Write the steps for creating a Mail Merge.
3. What is sorting? Write the steps for selecting a different numbering style?
4. What is drawing objects? How would you display the picture toolbars?
5. How to insert a Table? How can borders and shading be applied to a table?

Lesson 7
INTRODUCTION TO PRESENTATION SOFTWARE
Very Short answer type question:-
1. What is Presentation?
2. What is Slides?
3. What is Speaker Notes?
4. Name the different methods of creating a new PowerPoint presentation?
 5. How can we move from one slide to other in Normal View?
6. List any two methods of selecting text in PowerPoint?
7. How would you apply a design scheme to your organization Chart?
8. How would you insert a Header and Footer in a Slide?
9. What is placeholder?
10. What is watermark?
11. What is header footer?
12. What is the procedure for inserting a water mark?
13. What is organization chart?
14. What is the procedure to insert an organization chart?
15. What is ruler?

Short answer type question:-

1. Write the procedure to insert the ruler?
2. Write the procedure for changing the slide background.
3. How to insert a new slide?
4. Explain how to edit a .
5. What are the different views of PowerPoint?
6. What is the Extensions of saving a file in PowerPoint Presentation?
7. What is template?
8. What is a wizard?
9. What is the difference between wizards and template?
10. What is placeholder

Long answer type question:-

1. Explain the formatting steps to be applied in the placeholders?
2. What is blank presentation?
3. Briefly explain the steps to insert a new slides and deleting a new slides.
4. What is organization chart? Explain their types.
5. What is clipart? Explain the steps of Grouping and ungrouping of clip art images?

Lesson 8
GIVING LIFE TO A PRESENTATION
Very Short answer type question:-
1. What is slide show?
2. What is the procedure to set up a slide show?
3. What are the two ways to setup the slide show?
4. What is a handout?
 5. Explain how to insert a sound in presentation.
6. Explain how to print a presentation item?
7. What is the menu in which Music and Sound option is found.
8. What is the requirement for recording a voice Narration?
9. What is the extension of a PowerPoint presentation?
10. What is the menu ion which custom animation option is available?
11. What is the menu in which rehearse timing option is available?
12. What would you do to display the slide Transition task pane?
13. What would you do to display the page setup dialog box?
14. How would you start a slide show from within PowerPoint?
15. What is the advantage od adding sound, movies, and animation to a presentation?

Short answer type question:-

1. Describe the procedure for applying Slide Transition effect in PowerPoint.
2. Explain the different ways of starting a PowerPoint slide show?
3. How would you add a movie to your presentation?
4. How would you start a slide show from within power point?
5. What would you do to display the slide transition task pane?
6. What would you do to display the page set up dialog box?
7. What do you understand by Animating text and object?
8. Name three different ways for starting a slide show?
9. Which option would you use to adding a movie or animated GIF?
10. How would you record a Voice Narration?

Long answer type question:-

1. Describe the procedure for applying slide transition effects in PowerPoint.
2. Explain the different ways of starting PowerPoint slide shows.
3. How would you set up the slide size and orientation for printing? Write steps in detail.
4. Write steps for setting timing for slide show. Also explain the term Rehearse timing.
5. Write complete procedure for animating text and objects?

Lesson 9
INTRODUCTION TO SPREADSHEET PACKAGES
Very Short answer type question:-
1. Which program is called the spreadsheet program?
2. How many numbers of columns in Ms-Excel worksheet?
3. How many numbers of rows in Ms-Excel worksheet?
4. What do you mean by range?
 5. What is Alignment?
6. Write shortcut key for copying data?
7. Write shortcut key for pasting data?
8. Write shortcut key for undo data?
9. Write shortcut key for inserting current date?
10. Write shortcut key for inserting current time?
11. Define Workbook?
12. Define Worksheet?
13. Explain the term Cell Pointer?
14. What do you mean by Formatting?
15. What do you mean by editing data?

Short answer type question:-

1. Differentiate between a Worksheet and a Workbook.
2. What is a cell and how it is named?
3. How would you select a complete row or complete column in Ms-Excel?
4. How would you insert a column in Ms-Excel?
5. Name two ways by which you can change a cell’s content?
6. Describe the procedure for changing the height of several rows at once.
7. What is the function of the Undo and Redo commands?
8. Name the dialog box that allows you to format numbers, date, time.
9. Name the four alignment buttons used for applying horizontal alignment.
10. How would you create a pre-defined series of text?

Long answer type question:-

1. Describe the two types of data in Ms-Excel.
2. How would you select a range (a) using the mouse (b) using the keyboard.
3. Describe the procedure for copying data in Ms-Excel.
4. Describe the procedure for moving data in Ms-Excel.
5. Describe the procedure for increasing/decreasing decimal places (a) using the
formatting toolbar and (b) through built in number formats.

Lesson 10
USING FORMULAS AND CREATING CHARTS IN A SPREADSHEET
Very Short answer type question:-
1. Define Concatenation?
 2. From which sign all formulas begin with in Ms-Excel?
3. How many arguments does SUM() function have ?
4. Which chart is plot on concentric circles?
5. For which purpose we use AVERAGE() function?
6. Define the term Chart Component?
7. What is Bar chart?
8. Could pie chart contain more than one data series?
9. Is the line chart shows the trends in data at equal intervals?
10. How many types of cell referencing are there?
11. Define the term Functions?
12. Which chart could called a column chart drawn sideways?
13. What do you mean by arguments?
14. Define any two types of chart.
15. Which chart shows the relationship among the numeric values in several data series?

Short answer type question:-

1. Why do we get error result in MS-Excel?
2. Explain the auto calculate feature of MS-Excel.
3. Name the three types of cell referencing in MS-Excel.
4. What are the functions? Name the two parts of a function.
5. Name any three types of charts in MS-Excel. Define them.
6. What is the difference between column chart and bar chart?
7. What is the difference between Pie Chart and Doughnut chart?
8. Name any three components of a chart.
9. What is the importance of the legend of a chart?
10. Explain the procedure for printing a worksheet.

Long answer type question:-

1. What is cell referencing? Explain the difference between the three types of cell
referencing in Ms-Excel.
2. Explain the following Ms-Excel functions, with an example of each: SUM(), AVERAGE()
and MAX().
3. Explain any five types of charts. In detail.
4. Describe all the components of chart in Ms-Excel.
5. Write the complete procedure for inserting a chart in Ms-Excel.

Lesson 11
INTRODUCTION TO C++
Very Short answer type question:-
1. What are the characteristic of a good program?
2. Name the two types of comments.
3. Explain the procedure for creating a new file in Turbo C++ 4.5.
4. What is the source code?
5. What is an object code?
6. What does the compilation do?
7. Name the three categories of errors.
8. What does the preprocessor directive do?
9. What is the advantage of writing a single statement in each line?
10. What do you mean syntax errors?
11. What do you mean comments?
12. What do you mean by semantics errors?
13. What is the main function of ‘return 0;’?
14. Why a program should have good presentation style?
15. How are meaningful identifiers useful?

Short answer type question:-

1. Briefly explain the two major types of programming language?
2. What are programming paradigms? Give names of some popular programming
paradigms?
3. Write the short note on modular programming.
4. What are the shortcomings of procedural and modular programming approaches?
5. Write a short note on OO programming.
6. Discuss some advanced features of Windows XP.
7. Explain the concept of virtual storage.
8. What are character constants in C++? How are these implemented?
9. What is the function of I/O library in C++?
10. Why is main ( ) function so important?

Long answer type question:-

1. Explain the role and importance of file iostream.h in C++ .
2. Explain different type of literals in C++ by giving appropriate example.
3. Write a note on software evolution.
4. Explain the basic concepts of OOP with example.
5. Explain the role of a compiler in a programming language. What type of errors it
generally reports?
Lesson 12
C++ VARIABLES, CONSTANTS AND STANDARD I/O
Very Short answer type question:-
1. What are the main types of C++ data type ?
2. What do you mean by fundamental data types ?
3. The data type char is used to represent characters. Then why is it often termed
as an integer type ?
4. What are the advantages of floating-point numbers over integers ?
5. How many way can a floating-point be written into ?
6. Write 147.9205 into exponent from and 2.4901E04 into fractional from.
7. What does the variable store ?
8. What is the use void data type?
9. Why does C++ have type modifiers ?
10. What is the wrong with the following C++ statement : long float x ; ?
11. What are the variations in floating-point type ?
12. What is the distinction between 33L and 33 ?
13. What is a reference variable ?
14. Explain the difference among 0,’0’,/0’, and “0” .
15. Why is float type preferred for real quantities ?

Short answer type question:-

1. What is the use of keywords in C++?
2. While writing the integer constants, how are decimal, octal and hexadecimal
constants distinguished from one another?
3. List the rules that apply to an integer constants.
4. List the rules that apply to a floating-point constants.
5. How do string constants differ from character constants?
6. What is an escape sequence? Name any two escape sequence codes.
7. Name two types of data conversion.
8. What is implicit conversion?
9. What is the use of type casting?
10. What is explicit conversion?

Long answer type question:-

1. Explain C++ data types with appropriate examples .
2. Explain user-defined data types in C++ with appropriate examples.
3. Example the difference between a various, reference , a constant variable and a
pointer variable.
4. What is the impact of type modifiers on base data types ?
5. An unsigned int can be twice as large as the signed int.example. How.
Lesson 13
OPERATORS IN C++
Very Short answer type question:-
1. What are arithmetic operators in c++?
2. What are binary operators?
3. What are arithmetic operators?
4. Distinguish between unary and binary arithmetic operators.
5. What is the function of increment/decrement operators?
6. Evaluate a+= a+++a if a =20 initially?.
7. What role do the relational operators play?
8. What are relational operators?
9. What are logical operators?
10. How are relational operators and logical operators related to one another?
11. What are unary, binary and ternary operators?
12. What is mean by type conversion?
13. Write arithmetic type conversion rules for float types and int types.
14. What are the potential problems in types conversions ?
15. Why do you think type compatibility is required in assigning values ?

Short answer type question:-

1. What is the function of operators?
2. What are binary operators?
3. What will be the result of a=5/3 if a is (i) float (ii) int?
4. What is the function of logical operators?
5. What is the function of logical operators?
6. What will be value of j=--k+(l=k,l++) if k is 20 initially ?
7. What will be the value of p=p*++j where j is 22 and p=3 initially ?
8. An arithmetic assignment operator combines the effect of what two operators?
9. Which header file must be included in the program to make use C++’s built-in
mathematical functions?
10. What will be the resultant type of the following expression if fl is a float variable
and db. is a double variable ? (int)(fl+db)

Long answer type question:-

1. Describe in detail all types of Arithmetic operators?
2. Explain the precedence of operators with the help of example.
3. Explain binary operators? Describe any three.
4. Describe logical and relational operator.
 5. Describe the conditional and comma operator.

Lesson 14
CONTROL STRUCTURE IN C++
Very Short answer type question:-
1. What is the significance of a null statement?
2. How the control structure classified?
3. What is a selection statement?
4. What is the significance of test-condition in a loop?
5. What is the use of looping statements?
6. When is a default argument value used inside a function?
7. What are global variable?
8. When we use a switch statement?
9. What are the three types of function in C++?
10. What is meant by scope?
11. Define the term simple and compound statement?
12. What is different forms of IF statement?
13. What is the purpose of exit function?
14. What is the main function of the FOR loop?
15. Name the three types of jump statements?

Short answer type question:-

1. Program to enter the principal, rate & time and print the simple interest.
2. Program to enter your age and print if you should be in grade 10.
3. Program to enter an integer and output the cube of that integer.
4. Program to change the background colors on the screen
5. Program to change the foreground colors and draw circles on the screen.
6. Program to plot pixels
7. Program to enter an integer and output its 15 multiples
8. Program to find the roots of a quadratic equation.
9. Program to convert days into years and weeks.
10. Program to enter a character and output its ASCII code.

Long answer type question:-

1. Program to enter a sentence and output the number of uppercase & lowercase
consonants, uppercase & lowercase vowels in sentence..
2. Program to identify if an input is a symbol, digit or character.
3. Program to enter salary and output income tax and net salary.
4. Explain in detail all types of JUMP statement with example.
5. Explain WHILE and DO-WHILE loop? Write differences between both of them.
Lesson 15
SOCIETAL IMPACT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Very Short answer type question:-

DEFINE THE TERMS

1. Information Technology
2. Intellectual property rights
3. Plagiarism
4. Privacy
5. Spyware
6. Antivirus
7. Firewall
8. Data Masking
9. Disk Encryption
10. Data Erasure

Short answer type question:-

1. What are intellectual property rights?
2. What do you understand by security of information?
3. Name any two careers in IT?
4. What is a social impact bond?
5. Who are the key players in a social impact bond agreement?
6. What is an intervention?
7. What are some policy areas that could benefit from using social impact bonds?
8. What are some limitations to social impact bonds?
9. Have social impact bonds been used outside the United States with any success?
10. What happens if the outcome is not achieved?

Long answer type question:-

1. Name any five types of intellectual property rights. Give two examples of
violation of intellectual property rights in the context of IT.
2. Define the term plagiarism. How can one avoid plagiarism?
3. Describe Spyware and Phishing.
4. Discuss any four technologies that are used to preserve the security and integrity
of information.
5. Describe a variety of jobs IT industry offers.