CBSE | DEPARTMENT OF SKILL EDUCATION

DATA SCIENCE (SUBJECT CODE - 419)

QUESTION PAPER - 1 (PREBORD-1)
CLASS X (SESSION 2024-2025)
Max. Time: 2 Hours Max. Marks: 50

General Instructions:
1. Please read the instructions carefully.
2. This Question Paper consists of 21 questions in two sections: Section A & Section B.
3. Section A has Objective type questions whereas Section B contains Subjective type questions.
4. Out of the given (5 + 16 =) 21 questions, a candidate has to answer (5 + 10 =) 15 questions in the
allotted (maximum) time of 2 hours.
5. All questions of a particular section must be attempted in the correct order.
6. SECTION A - OBJECTIVE TYPE QUESTIONS (24 MARKS):
i. This section has 05 questions.
ii. Marks allotted are mentioned against each question/part.
iii. There is no negative marking.
iv. Do as per the instructions given.
7. SECTION B – SUBJECTIVE TYPE QUESTIONS (26 MARKS):
i. This section has 16 questions.
ii. A candidate has to do 10 questions.
iii. Do as per the instructions given.
iv. Marks allotted are mentioned against each question/part.

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 SECTION A: OBJECTIVE TYPE QUESTIONS
Q. 1 Answer any 4 out of the given 6 questions on Employability Skills (1 x 4 = 4 marks)

i. How much % of the communication that we do in our day-to-day communication is 1

non-verbal?
a) 55%
b) 93%
c) 7%
d) 38%
ii. Which of the following is not an authentic source for data acquisition? 1

a)Sensors b)Surveys c)Web Scraping d)System Hacking

iii. is the ability to plan and control how you spend the hours of your day well 1
and do all that you want to do.
iv. Tick the correct option for the function that the entrepreneur is doing. 1
1. Ali has a diamond factory. He pays his employees on the 1st of every month.
(a) Creates a new product (b) Manages the business (c) Takes risk

v. Face Recognition is commonly used in ___ for security purposes. 1

a) retail stores b) social media c) phone unlocking d) all of the above

vi. The Fully Connected Layer in CNN is mainly used for ___ . 1
(a) feature detection (b) reducing image size (c) final classification (d) adding padding

Q. 2 Answer any 5 out of the given 6 questions (1 x 5 = 5 marks)

Which layer in CNN helps reduce the spatial size of feature maps?
i. 1
(a) Convolutional layer (b) Fully Connected layer (c) Pooling layer

(d) Activation layer

ii. At the animal shelter, after counting the cats, they are weighed. The counts are 1
values while their weights are values.
a) continuous, discrete
b) continuous, qualitative
c) discrete, continuous
d) qualitative, continuous

iii. Rock paper and scissors game is based on the following domain: 1
a) Data for AI
b) Natural Language Processing
c) Computer Vision
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 d) Image processing

iv. the process of combining two or more data sets into a single data frame. 1

v. Snapchat filters use and to enhance your selfie with flowers, cat 1
ears etc.
a) machine learning and deep learning
b) data and image processing
c) augmented reality and machine learning
d) NLP and computer vision

vi. Confidential data can be stored in which of the following format? 1

a) Digital Data
b) Physical Copies
c) Both a) and b)
d) Neither a) nor b)

Q. 3 Answer any 5 out of the given 6 questions (1 x 5 = 5 marks)

i. If we consider all the flowers in a garden as one set, then what do we call a rose in 1
the garden?
a) Set
b) Subset
c) Superset
d) Powerset

ii. Which term in data science refers to the method that shows the probable values 1
for a variable and how often they occur?

iii. Choose the correct set of matches. 1

(i) a)
Selection
(i)-(A), Bias (A) Focusing
(ii)-(B),(iii)-(C), on successful examples and ignoring the failure.
(iv)-(D)
(ii)Linearity
b) (i)-(B),Bias (B) Recommendation
(ii)-(D),(iii)-(C), (iv)-(A) Systems
(iii)Survivor
c) (i)-(B),Bias (C) Common
(ii)-(D),(iii)-(A), at the data labeling stage of any object
(iv)-(C)
(iv)d)Recall Bias
(i)-(B), (D) Cognitive
(ii)-(A),(iii)-(D), Bias
(iv)-(C)

iv. What are the three domains of AI? 1

a)Data Science/ Big Data
b)Computer Vision
c)Natural Language Processing (NLP)

v. Which algorithm is commonly used for text classification in NLP? 1

a) K-means b) Naive Bayes c) Linear Regression d) KNN
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 vi. In NLP, what is lemmatization used for? 1
a) To reduce words to their root form b) To find synonyms of words

c) To detect word frequency d) To translate words

Q. 4 Answer any 5 out of the given 6 questions (1 x 5 = 5 marks)

i. Statement1: Mean Absolute Deviation (MAD) is the average of how far away all 1
values in a data set are from the mean.
Statement2: The Standard Deviation is the measure of how spread out the
numbers are around the mean.
a) Both Statement1 and Statement2 are correct
b) Both Statement1 and Statement2 are incorrect
c) Statement1 is correct but Statement2 is incorrect
d) Statement2 is correct but Statement1 is incorrect

ii. What is the probability of drawing a red card from a standard deck of 52 cards? 1
a) 1/2
b) 1/4
c) 1/13
d) 1/26

iii. Bias data can have the following properties: 1

i) Partial
ii) Prejudiced
iii) preferential
iv) selective
a) i, iii and iv
b) ii, iii, and iv
c) i, ii and iii
d) i, ii and iv

iv. Which technique is commonly used in NLP to break down sentences into words? 1

a) Tokenization

b) Classification

c) Clustering

d) Regression

v. What is the main purpose of Natural Language Processing (NLP)? 1

a) To process numbers b) To enable machines to understand human languages
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 c) To create programming languages d) To analyze images

vi. If you soft delete a file 1

a) It gets deleted forever
b) One can easily restore it
c) The hard disk gets formatted
d) A duplicate copy gets generated

Q. 5 Answer any 5 out of the given 6 questions (1 x 5 = 5 marks)

i. The scores of five students in a subject are 80, 72, 84, 85, 79. Find the median. 1
ii. The collection of one or more outcomes from an experiment is called 1
a) Probability
b) Distribution
c) Event
d) Random Experiment

iii. Statement1: Probability is a very essential tool in statistics. 1

Statement2: There is no relation between probability and how we make
predictions in statistics.
a) Both Statement1 and Statement2 are correct
b) Both Statement1 and Statement2 are incorrect
c) Statement1 is correct but Statement2 is incorrect
d) Statement2 is correct but Statement1 is incorrect

iv. What is the primary challenge in NLP for machines? 1

a) Recognizing objects in images b) Understanding the nuances and context of human
language

c) Processing large amounts of data d) Detecting emotions in speech

v. Statement A: A z-score describes the position of a fair score in terms of its distance 1
from the mean when measured in standard deviation units.
Statement B: The z-score is positive if the value lies above the mean and negative
if it lies below the mean.
a) (A)is false but (B) is true
b) (A)is true but (B) is false
c) Both (A) and (B) are true
d) Both (A) and (B) are false

vi. Assertion (A): A firewall is used to protect a computer network from unauthorized 1
access.
Reason (R): Firewalls monitor incoming and outgoing traffic and block potentially
harmful data packets.

a) Both A and R are correct, and R is the correct explanation of A

b) Both A and R are correct, but R is not the correct explanation of A
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 c) A is correct, and R is incorrect
d) R is correct, and A is incorrect

SECTION B: SUBJECTIVE TYPE QUESTIONS

Answer any 3 out of the given 5 questions on Employability Skills (2 x 3 = 6 marks)
Answer each question in 20 – 30 words.
Q. 6 Feedback is the final component and one of the most important factors in the 2
process of communication. Give two reasons to justify why feedback is important.
Q. 7 In SMART goals, what does ‘R’ stand for? Explain. 2

Q. 8 What will happen if you overcharge the battery of a laptop? 2

Q. 9 Differentiate between wage employment and self-employment. 2

Q. 10 Explain the term: Organic farming 2

Answer any 4 out of the given 6 questions in 20 – 30 words each (2 x 4 = 8 marks)

Q. 11 A survey of 20 people (10 kids and 10 adults) was taken on the type of food they like 2
to snack. The following responses were recorded:
● 7 kids liked pizza while the other kids preferred burger
● 5 adults liked burger while the other adults preferred pizza
Based on the information given above, build a two-way frequency
table.
Q. 12 Explain uniform distribution with the help of an example. 2

Q. 13 What is survivorship bias? Give an example. 2

Q. 14 Do you think it is helpful to standardize the values of a normal distribution by 2

converting them into z-score? Explain

Q. 15 Consider the data set 27,22,44,35,14,34,32 2

Find the percentile for the element 22

Q. 16 Confidential data is maintained in the form of digital as well as physical copies. 2

Suggest two ways in which we can discard the physical copies of confidential data.

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Answer any 3 out of the given 5 questions in 50– 80 words each (4 x 3 = 12 marks)
Q. 17 Ashish downloaded a dataset from Kaggle and now wants to use parts of it for data 4
analysis. Explain him the term ‘subset’ and the different ways of subsetting the data.

Q. 18 Manya, a student of class 10 was learning the topic “Statistical Problem Solving 4
Process”. She did not understand the concept and had trouble understanding
it. Help her by explaining the process with a good example.

Q. 19 “Given a significantly large sample size from a population with finite variance, the 4
mean of all samples from same set of population will be roughly equal to the mean
of the population”.
What is this statement about? Explain it with the help of an example.

Q. 20 We can perform data merging by implementing data joins on the databases in 4

frame. How many types of joins are there? Explain.

Q. 21 Data analytics raises many ethical issues, especially when anyone starts making 4
money from their data externally for the purposes different from the ones for which
the data was initially collected. While there are no specific rules for ethical
guidelines around data analysis, there are a few principles to agree upon. Explain
any four of such principles.

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