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MARKING SCHEME
PRE-BOARD EXAMINATION (2024-25)
CLASS : XII
SUBJECT: COMPUTER SCIENCE (083)
Time Allowed : 3 hours Maximum Marks : 70

SECTION A

(1 mark to be awarded for every correct answer)

1. False 1

2. C. len( ) 1

len is a built-in function in Python, not a keyword.

3. D. pop( ) 1

4 B. ORDER BY

5 1

6. C. Star 1

7 1

8 C. Month.pop(3) 1

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9 C. DROP TABLE 1

10 A. The program terminates abruptly. 1

11 C. f=open(r”c:doe\exam.dat”,”wb+”) 1

12 B. Underflow 1

13 A. Row 1

14 A. Details of all the employees whose department is IT and salary is 1

greater than 55000.

15 D. Values 1

16 C. 30 1

17 C. HTTPS 1

18 B. It automatically closes the file when done. 1

19 D. Radio waves 1

Assertion and Reason:

In the following questions, A statement of Assertion (A) is followed

by a statement of Reason (R). Mark the correct choice as:

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 A) Both A and R are true and R is correct explanation of A

B) Both A and R are true but R is not correct explanation of A

C) A is true but R is false

D) A is false but R is true

20 C. A is true but R is false 1

21 A. Both A and R are true and R is correct explanation of A 1

SECTION B

22. Membership operators are in and not in. 2

Purpose: the membership operator is used to check for the presence of a

1 mark for name of membership operators.

1 mark for purpose

23. 2

.33 mark for each correction

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24. 2

½ marks for function header and calling the function

1 mark for the logic of copying the content to another file.

½ mark for closing the files.

OR

½ mark for function header and display result

½ marks for file opening

1 mark for logic of counting lines starting from digit.

25. A and C are correct options (½ mark for each correct option) 2

Possible values of d: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ( .4 mark for each correct possible

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26. 2
A.

B. (Because insert function does not return anything)

1 mark for each correct option

27. A. % and _ are two wild card operators used in SQL for pattern 2

matching.

½ mark for the name of each wild card operator = 1 mark

OR

Order by

1 mark for correct clause name

B. ALTER TABLE Student ADD Grade VARCHAR(2);

OR

SELECT COUNT(*) FROM Student;

1 mark for correct query

28. XML: Extensible Markup Language 2

Wi-Fi: wireless Fidelity

1 mark for each correct answer = 2 marks

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 OR

A. Star Topology

B. Bus Topology

SECTION C

29 3

½ mark for function header

½ mark for file opening with correct name and in correct mode.

½ mark for reading line

½ mark for split

½ mark for correct condition

½ mark for correct result

OR

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 ½ mark for function header

½ mark for file opening and using correct mode

2 marks for correct logic

30. 3

1.5 mark for the correct logic of push function

½ mark for use of underflow condition in display function

1 mark for display correct output in display function

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 OR

1 mark for correct logic in push_multiple_of_3( ) function.

½ marks for checking the stack is empty or not in

pop_multiple_of_3( ) function.

½ mark for pop one element from the pop_multiple_of_3 ( )

function

½ mark for checking the stack is empty in display_stack( ) function

½ mark for display each element in correct order in display_stack( )

function.

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31. 3

3 marks for correct output

OR

3 marks for correct output

SECTION D

32. A. 4

1. SELECT Name FROM STUDENT WHERE Marks > 90;

2. SELECT COUNT(*) FROM STUDENT WHERE Class = 12;

3. SELECT Name FROM STUDENT WHERE Name LIKE 'S%';

4. SELECT * FROM STUDENT WHERE Class = 12 AND Marks

> 90;

1 mark for each correct query

OR

B.

1.

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 2.

3.

4.

33. 4

½ mark for import csv module

½ mark for opening file with correct name and in correct mode.

1 mark for correct logic of adding data into the file.

1 mark for reading data from csv file.

1 mark for correct condition and display the result.

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34. A. SELECT s.StudentID, s.Name, s.Age, s.Class, s.Marks FROM 4

STUDENT s, COURSE c WHERE s.Section = c.Section AND

c.Section = 'A';

B. SELECT s.Name FROM STUDENT s, COURSE c WHERE

s.Section = c.Section AND c.Course_Name = 'Science';

C. SELECT AVG(s.Marks) AS AverageMarks FROM STUDENT s,

COURSE c WHERE s.Section = c.Section AND c.Section = 'B';

D. i. UPDATE COURSE SET Fee = Fee * 1.15 WHERE Section = 'C';

OR

ii. UPDATE STUDENT SET Marks = Marks * 1.10 WHERE Class =

12 AND Section = 'B';

35. 4

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 ½ mark for import statement

½ mark for connection establishment statement

½ to create cursor object

1 mark for adding/ inserting data.

½ marks for fetching data from table

1 mark for correct result

SECTION E

36. A. 5

½ mark for function header

½ mark for opening file in correct mode

½ mark for take input from user

1 mark for correct use of dump function

Total 2.5 marks

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 B.

½ mark for function header

½ mark for opening file in correct mode

½ mark for reading file using load function

½ mark for condition checking

½ mark for return the result

37. A. Management Block 5

B.

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C. Repeater not required because the distance is less than 100 meters.

D. Management Block

E. i. Twisted pair cable

OR

ii. Fiber optics cable

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