SUB: COMPUTER SCIENCE

CLASS: XII
FULL MARKS: 35 TIME: 2Hrs

General Instructions:
1. Please read the instructions carefully.
2. The question paper is divided into 3 sections – A, B and C.
3. Section A, consists of 7 questions (1-7). Each question carries 2 marks.
4. Section B, consists of 3 questions (8-10). Each question carries 3 marks.
5. Section C, consists of 3 questions (11-13). Each question carries 4 marks.

Section-A
Each question carries 2 marks

1. What is stack? Name and describe any two basic operations on stack. [2]
2. (i) Expand the following terms: [1]
GPRS, CDMA
(ii) Name any two wired and two wireless mediums of transmission. [1]
3. Differentiate between DDL and DML commands. [2]
4. A resultset is extracted from the database using the cursor object (that
has been already created) by giving the following statement. [2]
data=cursor.fetchall()
(a) What does fetchall() function return?
(b) What do you mean by the term cursor?
5. Write the output of the queries (a) to (d) based on the table Worker given
below: [2]
Table: Worker

(a) SELECT SUM (SALARY) FROM WORKER WHERE SALARY > 100000;
(b) SELECT MIN(JOINING_DATE) FROM WORKER;
(c) SELECT * FROM WORKER WHERE FIRST_NAME LIKE “V%”;
 (d) SELECT DEPARTMENT FROM WORKER GROUP BY DEPARTMENT;

6. (i) Write the SQL query to display the structure/schema of the table. [1]
(ii) Give one difference between equi-join and natural join. [1]

7. Consider the table Employee given below: [2]

Table: Employee

(a) Identify the degree and cardinality of the table.

(b) Which fields can be made the alternate keys? Justify your answer.
OR
Consider the table EmpDept given below:
Table: EmpDept

(a) Identify the primary key from the table EmpDept.

(b) Write the SQL statement to add a column named ContactNo of Integer type
to the EmpDept table.

Section-B
Each question carries 3 marks

8. Amit has created a dictionary containing names and ages as key : value
pairs of 5 students. Write a program with user-defined functions to
perform the following operations: [3]
• Push the keys (Name of the students) of the dictionary in to a
stack where the corresponding value (Age) is greater than 45.
• Pop and display the content of the stack.
For example,
If the sample content of the dictionary is as follows:
 D={“A”:55, “B”:60, “C”:44, “D”:40, “E”:50}
The output of the program should be:
E, B, A

9. (i) A table STUDENT has been created in a database with the following fields:
S_ID, S_Name, DOB, Age
Give the SQL command to change the data type of DOB into date type. [1]
(ii) What is the use of SAVEPOINT statement? Differentiate between
COMMIT and ROLLBACK commands.
[2]

10. Nisha has created a database named “SCHOOL” in my MySQL. She now needs to
create a table name “TEACHER” in the database to store the records of teachers
across the globe. The table “TEACHER” has the following structure: [3]
Table: Teacher
Field Name Data Type Remarks
T_ID CHAR (5) Primary key
T_NAME CHAR (30)
SUBJECT CHAR (20) Unique constraint
SALARY DECIMAL(7,2) Check salary>20000
DEPARTMENT CHAR (30) Default value - NA
AGE INTEGER
CONTACT INTEGER Not null

Help her to complete the task by suggesting appropriate SQL command.

Section-C
Each question carries 4 marks

11. Write SQL queries for (i) to (iv) which are based on the following tables. [4]
Table :VEHICLE

VCODE VEHICLETYPE PERKM

VO1 VOLVO BUS 150

V02 AC DELUXE BUS 125

V03 ORDINARY BUS 80

V05 SUV 30

V04 CAR 18
 Note: PERKM is Freight Charges per kilometer.

Table : TRAVEL

CNo CNAME TRAVELDATE KM VCODE NOP

101 K.Niwal 2015-12-13 200 VO1 32

103 Fredrick Sym 2016-03-21 120 V03 45

105 Hitesh Jain 2016-04-23 450 V02 42

102 Ravi Anish 2016-01-13 80 V02 40

107 John Malina 2015-02-10 65 V04 2

104 Sahanubhuti 2016-01-28 90 V05 4

106 Ramesh Jaya 2016-04-06 100 VO1 25

Note:
• Km is Kilometers Travelled
• NOP is number of passangers travelled in vehicle.

i) To display CNO, CNAME, TRAVELDATE from the table TRAVEL in descending

order of CNO.
ii) To display the CNAME of all the customers from the table TRAVEL who are
travelling by vehicle with code V01 or V02.
iii) To display the CNO and CNAME of those customers from the table TRAVEL
who travelled between ‘2015-12-31’ and ‘2015-05-01’.
iv) To display all the details from table TRAVEL for the customers, who have
travel distance more than 120 KM in ascending order of NOP.

12. Give two advantages and two disadvantages of Ring topology. [4]

OR
Define the following terms:

i) MAC Address ii) WLL

13. Hindustan Connecting World Association is planning to start their offices
in four major cities in India to provide regional IT infrastructure support
in the field of education and culture. The company has planned to setup
their head office in New Delhi in three different locations and have named
their New Delhi offices as Sales Office, Head Office and Tech Office. The
company’s regional offices are located at Coimbatore, Kolkata and Ahmedabad. [4]
A rough layout of the same is as follow:

Approximate distances between

these offices as per network
survey team is as follows:

In continuation of the above, the

company experts have planned to
install the following number of
computers in each of their offices

(i) Suggest the network type (out of LAN, MAN, WAN) for connecting each of the
following set of their offices.
(a) Head Office and Tech Office
(b) Head Office and Coimbatore Office
(ii) Which device will you suggest to be procured by the company for connecting
all computers within each of their offices out of the following devices?
(a) Modem (b) Telephone (c) Switch/Hub
(iii) Which of the following communication media will you suggest to be procured
by the company for connecting their local offices in New Delhi for very effective
and fast communication?
(a) Ethernet cable (b) Optical fiber (c) Telephone cable
(iv) Suggest the cable/wiring layout for connecting the company’s local offices
located in New Delhi. Also, suggest an effective method/technology for
connecting the company’s regional offices at Kolkata, Coimbatore and
Ahmedabad.