Delhi Public School, Gandhinagar

Pre-Board I Examination (2022-23)

Class: X Computer Applications Date: 04.01.23
Time: 2 hours (Set-2) M.Marks: 50
Name:________________________________ Sec:_________ Roll No.: ________

General Instructions:
1. This Question Paper has 5 Sections A-E.
2. All Questions are compulsory.
3. Section A has 12 questions carrying 1 mark each.
4. Section B has 7 Very Short Answer (VSA) type questions carrying 02 marks each.
5. Section C has 4 Short Answer (SA) type questions carrying 03 marks each.
6. Section D has 1 Long Answer (LA) type question carrying 04 marks.
7. Section E has 2 Source based / Case-based / Passage based Questions carrying 04 marks each.

Section – A (All questions are compulsory)

1. Mary is an author who writes the book and her friend suggests that if you copy 1
someone else’s work in your task, word to word, then do not forget to enclose it in
quotes and also mention its source. Her friend is asking Mary to avoid ________.
a) intellectual property rights b) plagiarism
c) hacking d) privacy
2. _________ services typically include reviewing account activity and balance, sending 1
electronic payments, and transferring funds between accounts electronically.
a) E-banking b) E-reservation
c) E-posting d) E-mail
3. Which of the following statement is true about search engines? 1
a) Search engines discriminate between good and bad sites.
b) Search engine has fixed hours when we can use them.
c) Search engines are waste of time as they do not provide relevant information.
d) Search engine is a program designed to search for information on the web using
keywords.
4. A collection of web pages linked together and stored at a centralized location on a 1
web server is ______________
a) website b) web engine
c) search engine d) web browser

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5. Which protocol allows you to virtually log into a remote host and provide a two-way, 1
collaborative, and text-based communication channel between two machines?
a) TELNET b) SMTP
c) POP3 d) SIP
6. In the URL, http://www.mycbse.com/class10/index.htm, which component identifies 1
the path of a webpage?
a) http b) www.mycbse.com
c) /class10/index.htm d) All of these
7. Sohan has written the following code snippet as part of an HTML file. 1
<U> Honesty <B> Policy </B> </U>
Predict the output of the above code.
a) Honesty Policy b) Honesty Policy
c) Honesty Policy d) Honesty Policy
8. ________ is designed primarily to enable the separation of document content from 1
document presentation.
a) HTML b) CSS
c) CS d) DOM
9. The correct syntax to display H2SO4 : 1
a) H<SUB>2SO4</SUB> b) <SUP>H2SO4</SUP>
c) H<SUB>2</SUB>SO d) H<SUP>2</SUP>SO
<SUB>4</SUB> <SUP>4</SUP>
10. The alt attribute of <IMG> tag allows: 1
a) addition of an alternate hyperlink b) addition of a border to an image
c) use of an alternate image in place of the d) addition of alternate text for an image
specified image
Questions No-11 & 12 are Assertion and Reason types. Each question consists of
two statements, namely, Assertion (A) and Reason (R). Select the most suitable
option considering the Assertion & Reason.
11. Assertion (A): The valid values of align attribute of <IMG> are: left, right, center, 1
top, and bottom.
Reason (R): HTML images by default appear inline with a single line of text.
a) Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true and Reason (R) is a correct explanation
of Assertion (A).
b) Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true but Reason (R) is not a correct
explanation of Assertion (A).
c) Assertion (A) is true and Reason (R) is false.
d) Assertion (A) is false and Reason (R) is true.

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12. Assertion (A): Attributes provide additional information about HTML elements that 1
are used to create a web page.
Reason (R): Attributes are mentioned in the closing tags.
a) Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true and Reason (R) is a correct explanation
of Assertion (A).
b) Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true but Reason (R) is not a correct
explanation of Assertion (A).
c) Assertion (A) is true and Reason (R) is false.
d) Assertion (A) is false and Reason (R) is true.
Section – B (2 marks each)
13. Expand the terms SMS and MMS in the context of Mobile Technologies and 2
differentiate between them.
14. What is e-Governance? List any one example of an e-Governance portal. Explain any 2
two merits of e-Governance.
OR
What do you understand by a newsgroup? How is it different from a blog?
15. Mohan is creating a web page that contains a table depicting information about his 2
classmates. He adds the required rows and data to the table.
i) Now, he wants to change the background color of the cells of some rows. Which tag
and attribute will help Mohan to perform this task?
ii) He has to use cellspacing and cellpadding attributes in his code, but he is confused
between the two. Help him to understand the difference.
16. What is secure data transmission? Explain in brief any three technical ways that are 2
used to ensure secure data transmission.
OR
Ms. Arya was watching her friend as she was opening her Twitter account and got
access to her password. Now she is using her friend's Twitter handle to post
derogatory comments. What type of crime she has committed? Explain.
17. Differentiate between margin and padding properties in CSS. Also, illustrate their 2
usage with a suitable code example.
18. What is the difference between External and Internal linking in HTML? Explain with 2
a suitable example using an HTML code fragment.
OR
Gulzar is a talented musician. He is trying to create a web page to share his creations
with music lovers across the world. He wants to embed audio and video files in the
web page with the following specifications :
To embed audio files :
• The name of the audio file is GulzarNote1.mp3
• The audio should start playing automatically when the page loads.
• The audio controls such as Play, Pause, and Volume should be visible.

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 To embed video files :
• The name of the video file is GulzarMovie1.mp4
• The video should play in a window of width 350 pixels and a height of 250
pixels.
• The video controls such as Play, Pause, and Volume should be visible.
To complete the task, Gulzar has written the following HTML code :
To embed audio :
<audio controls autoplay>
<source src = "GulzarNote1
</audio controls>
To embed video :
<video width = "350" height = "250">
<source href = "GulzarMovie1.mp4">
</video>
Gulzar is not getting the desired output as the code contains errors.
Rewrite the correct statements to help him to complete the task. Underline all the
corrections made.
19. Write the HTML code fragment to generate an input form as shown below: 2

Section – C (3 marks each)

20. i) What do you mean by freedom of information? 3
ii) List any two ways to ensure freedom of information for all.
iii) What is the name of the term that acts as a barrier to freedom of information for all?
Define the term.
21. Ms. Shalini is a computer teacher at a CBSE school. She is explaining to her students 3
about mail servers and she is talking about SMTP and POP3 protocols.
i) What do you understand by the term protocol?
ii) Write the full form of SMTP and POP3.
iii) What is the difference between SMTP and POP3?
22. Write the equivalent inline CSS for the following HTML tag(s): 3
i) <BODY background="water.jpg" text=teal topmargin=5%>…</BODY>
ii) <H1 align=center><FONT face="Bookman Old Style" color=#FC0000">
…</FONT></H1>

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 OR
i) Write an external CSS code with the following specifications to be stored in the file
homestyle.css:
a) Background color of the web page should be blue.
b) The text of the paragraph should be displayed in small caps and the gap between
words should be 2px.
c) The image on the webpage should be floated on the right side of the paragraph text
with a dotted border.
ii) Write the code fragment to embed this external stylesheet file homestyle.css in a
webpage home.html
23. Explain what is Social Networking. List any three dangers associated with social 3
networking. Give an example of any two social networking websites.
Section - D (4 marks each)
24. Write the HTML code to design the web page as shown below, considering the 4
specifications that follow. Write the code for any 4 specifications out of the given 5
specifications.

The HTML code structure should be proper.

Specification-1: The main heading of the webpage should be displayed centrally
aligned with Heading level 1 in "Algerian" font.
Specification-2: A 2D horizontal line of 3px should be displayed after the main
heading. The image named "food.jfif" should be aligned on the right side as shown in
the screenshot.
Specification-3: The page should consist of an unordered list as an outer list with
data as given in the screenshot. The links for the list items should be given as follows:
For Indian Dishes as "indian.html"
For Continental Dishes as "continental.html"
Specification-4: The page should contain a second-level nested list and the data as
exactly given in the screenshot.

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 Specification-5: The page should contain a third-level nested list and the data as
exactly given in the screenshot. It should be an ordered list.
OR
Write the HTML code to design the web page as shown below, considering the
specifications that follow. Write the code for any 4 specifications out of the given 5
specifications.

The HTML code structure should be proper.

Specification-1: The bordered table with a height of 300px should have pink as the
background color. The table's header row with the heading "INCOME TAX SLABS
TABLE" should be spread over four cells.
Specification-2: After the heading row, the first cell of the next row should be spread
over five rows with an image named "incometax.jfif" stored in d: drive.
Specification-3: Table's data should be displayed as shown in the screenshot.
Specification-4: The horizontal lines of 80% screen width in green color should be
displayed as shown in the screenshot.
Specification-5: The links should be given as follows:
Pay Tax Online: as paytax.html
For Your Queries: an email link to address - [email protected].
Section – E
Case Study-1
25. Ms. Sheena is a computer science teacher in a school and she has given the task of 4
writing code to her children for the following HTML table. To help out children, she
has written some parts of the code with some missing fragments. Observe the table
and complete the code with the right statements. Attempt any four questions (out of
5) given after the table.

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<HTML>
<HEAD><TITLE>Tables</TITLE></HEAD>
<BODY>
<TABLE _______=10 _______=10 cellpadding=1 height=200 width=500
bordercolor=black> <!--STATEMENT 1-->
<____>RESPONDENT SUMMARY</____> <!--STATEMENT-2-->
<TR align=center>
<TH>CATEGORY</TH>
<TH align=center>AGE GROUP</TH>
<TH>#1</TH> <TH>#2</TH> <TH>#3</TH> <TH>#4</TH>
</TR>
<TR align=center>
<TD rowspan=2 valign=___>Male Respondents</TD> <!--STATEMENT-3-->
<TD align=right>21-30</TD>
<TD>A</TD> <TD>B</TD> <TD>C</TD> <TD>D</TD>
</TR>
<TR align=center>
<TD align=right>31-50</TD>
<TD>D</TD> <TD>B</TD> <TD>C</TD> <TD>A</TD>
</TR>
<TR align=center>
<TD _______ valign=top>Female Respondents <!-- STATEMENT-4-->
<TD align=right>21-30</TD>
<TD rowspan=2>A</TD>
<TD>B</TD>
<TD>C</TD>
<TD>D</TD>
</TR>
<TR align=center>

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 <TD align=right>31-40</TD>
<TD colspan=3>D</TD>
</TR>
<TR align=center>
<TD align=right>41-50</TD>
<TD colspan=2>B</TD>
<TD _________=2>C</TD> <!-- STATEMENT-5-->
</TR>
</TABLE>
</BODY>
</HTML>
i) Write the two missing attributes to complete STATEMENT-1 to achieve the output
given in the above table.
ii) Write a suitable tag or the blanks given in STATEMENT-2 to give the heading of the
table.
iii) Write an appropriate attribute value for the blank given in STATEMENT-3.
iv) Write the missing attribute value pair for the blank given in STATEMENT-4 to span
the cells as per the table screenshot given above.
v) Write the missing part in STATEMENT-5 to get the table output as given above.
Case Study-2
26. Sujoy has recently created his social media account. He is very excited as he waited 4
a long to go online. He has also got admission in a reputed school but he is not aware
of many people. One day when he logs into his social media account, he finds that
someone is posting negative, demeaning comments on his social media profile. He is
also getting repeated emails from unknown people. Every time he goes online, he
finds someone chasing him online.
Based on the given information, answer the questions given below. Attempt any
four questions.
i) Sujoy is a victim of __________.
ii) What immediate action Sujoy should take?
iii) Sujoy searches online regarding a set of moral principles that govern the behavior of
a group or individual and regulate the use of computers. What is it referred to as?
iv) He soon realizes that someone has fraudulently acquired his personal and private
information, such as his online account names, login information, and passwords by
tricking him into revealing his personal details via a deceptive email. This is termed
as __________.
v) Sujoy is advised by his best friend Shubham to protect his personal information or
data from unintentional and intentional attack and disclosure which is termed as
_______________.

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