KALINGA ENGLISH MEDIUM

SCHOOL,KALARBANK,CUTTACK
PRE-BOARD EXAM 2024-25

SUBJECT: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (402) FULL-MARK : 50

CLASS : X DURATION: 2 HRS

General Instruction:
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.

SECTION – A (OBJECTIVE TYPE QUESTIONS)

1. Answer any 4 out of the given 6 questions on Employability Skills (1 x 4 = 4 marks)

(i) Rashmi was doing well in her job and was getting a handsome salary. But suddenly she
made up her mind for starting her own business. Which one of the following is an advantage
of entrepreneurship?
(a) Can work for their passion
(b) Can make money with less effort
(c) Working hours are long
(d) All of these

(ii) Physical exercise is technique to …………

(a) Relieve stress
(b) Manage time
(c) Boost self confidence
(d) All of these

(iii) For self-motivation, self-awareness is a very important factor. The feeling of self-
awareness enhances our (a) Self-confidence
(b) Self-monitoring
(c) Self-regulation
(d) Self-discipline

(iv) The extension of a notepad file is

(a) doc
(b) docx
(c) txt
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 (d) xlsx

(v) Wahida runs a boutique. She buys cloth material from a local market. But recently she
came in contact with a cloth manufacturer and discovered that there was quite a big difference
in rates of same cloth material if bought from the manufacturer. She decided to purchase the
material from the manufacturer. Which of the following function of entrepreneurship is she
performing? (a) Planning
(b) Controlling
(c) Production and operations
(d) Finance and accounting

(vi) Which of the following practice will protect computer from security threats?
(a) Using antivirus
(b) Using Firewall
(c) Use of strong passwords
(d) All of these

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

(i) With every new change in headings of a document ………………. should be done
immediately.
(a) Create a new TOC
(b) Update TOC
(c) Delete old TOC
(d) None of these

(ii) Which of the following device connects a computer to the Internet?

(a) Wifi
(b) Broadband
(c) WiMax
(d) All of these

(iii) A URL with HTTP symbol is considered as ………………. connection.

(a) Secure
(b) Insecure
(c) Protected
(d) Virus free

(iv) ………………. represents data in formatted way.

(a) Forms
(b) Queries
(c) Wizards
(d) Reports

(v) ………………. is not a component of Mail Merge.

(a) Worksheet
(b) Data Source
(c) Main text document
(d) None of these

(vi) Which of the following is correct about query?

(a) It is an unused table
(b) It is command that interacts with database
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 (c) It is table design
(d) None of these

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

(i) ………………. is used for instant messaging.

(a) Google Hangouts
(b) Google Chrome
(c) Gmail ,
(d) All of these

(ii) Which of the following is not appropriate to set as primary key?

(a) Employee’s Identification Number
(b) Price of book
(c) Product code
(d) Admission number of student

(iii) ………………. feature, of operating system help people with disabilities.

(a) Accessibility
(b) Access
(c) Assist
(d) All of these

(iv) Which of the following What-lf analysis tool deals with multiple unknown variables?
(a) Goal Seek
(b) Solver
(c) Scenario
(d) None of these

(v) A ………………. extracts data from a database as per a condition.

(a) Forms
(b) Reports
(c) Queries
(d) Table

(vi) ………………. controls the flow of text around an image.

(a) Text Wrapping
(b) Drawing objects
(c) Text box
(d) Text Art

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

(i) ………………. occurs when multiple users have made changes in same set of cells in
a spreadsheet. (a) Changes conflict
(b) Name conflict
(c) Resolve conflict
(d) All of these

(ii) A template can be used to create ……………….. documents.

(a) As many
(b) Only one
(c) Only two
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 (d) Depends on application

(iii) Veena is an office assistant. Her job is to create new documents according to the
requirements. Sometimes she uses styles from her old documents to apply them on a new one.
What can be the possible way to use the styles from her previous documents?
(a) Copy and style document and then paste in new document
(b) Export the styles to new document
(c) Import styles from the old document to the new one
(d) Type the new document at the end of previous one and apply the styles

(iv) ………………. helps the website remember information about your visit.
(a) Malware
(b) Information
(c) Cookies
(d) Virus

(v) ………………. is a rule that ensures relationship between records in related tables.
(a) One to One relationship
(b) One to many relationship
(c) Referential integrity
(d) Data consistency

(vi) State whether true or false:

“A field consists of large number records”
(a) True
(b) False
(c) Can’t say
(d) True sometimes

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

(i) Which of the following feature are not helpful for people with hearing impairments?
(a) Sound volume
(b) Closed captions
(c) Presentation tools
(d) None of these

(ii) Which of the following does not allows e-ticketing

(a) For watching movies
(b) For travelling by air
(c) Travelling by train
(d) Booking a bed in hospital

(iii) While recording a macro the keystrokes are converted into ……………….
(a) Links
(b) Code
(c) Formula
(d) Function

(iv) Which of the following cannot be done using Table Design view?
(a) Adding fields
(b) Moving fields
(c) Adding data
(d) Changing field properties
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 (v) Which of the following is an example of data consolidation?
(a) Collecting budget data from different departments and making overall company budget
from them.
(b) Collecting marksheets of students and creating report card out of them
(c) Using sales data of different cities to find out overall sales of a company (d) All of these

(vi) The ………………. constraint ensures that all values in a column satisfies certain
condition.
(a) Check
(b) Primary key
(c) Not null
(d) Default

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.

6. Shri has been facing problems with his PC for the last few months. Every time he goes to the
technician, he suggests that he should maintain his PC properly. What are the tasks that are
carried out for computer maintenance?

7. Explain communication barriers and its types.

8. Discuss any two misconceptions and their realities about entrepreneurship.

9. Explain communication cycle.

10. What is operating system (OS) ? Explain briefly.

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

11. Differentiate between Absolute and Relative hyperlinks.

12. What do you understand by relationships in DBMS? How many types of relationships are
there?

13. Explain Primary key and Foreign key .

14. Write down the benefits of a database. (any four)

15. What are the two ways to create reference to link sheets of another workbook? Explain any
one of them.

16. Discuss the advantages of a template.

Answer any 3 out of the given 5 questions in 50– 80 words each (4 x 3 = 12 marks)

17. Ashmit works in a hotel He wants to store information of guests such as Serial number,
Guest’s name, their room number, date of check-in, their address and phone number in
database. Help him by solving some of his queries.
(a) Which field should be set as Primary key?
(b) What is the default format of date in OpenOffice Base?
(c) Define forms in database?
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 (d) How can you create a form in OpenOffice Base?

18. Given below is the structure of a table namely Books:

Book ID Integer
Name Varchar (40)
Author Varchar (25)
Price Decimal
(a) Explain the use of Varchar.
(b) Write SQL queries to:
(i) Create the table Books with Book ID as primary key.
(ii) Insert record with given details (‘12091’, “Panchatantra”, “Vishnu Sharma”, ‘250.00’)
(iii) Change the column Name to Book Name.

19. Shakti’s father works in a bank. One day Shakti visited bank to meet his father. There were no
customers in the bank and all the employees were sitting. His father told him that the server
was down and no banking operations could be performed.
(a) What is a server?
(b) What are other computers in the network called?
(c) Name the types of networking architecture.
(d) What type of networking technology, you think, is being used there?

20. Yashika is creating a newsletter in a word processor for her school bulletin board. She wants
to add some pictures on that newsletter.
(a) What are the sources to add an image in a document?
(b) Define text wrapping.
(c) What are the different wrap settings available in Writer?
(d) What are the Arrangement options available in Writer?

21. Garima is a Mathematics teacher and she uses Spreadsheet to maintain the mark lists of her
classes. She teaches five different sections and for each section she has a separate sheet. She
has to perform similar functions in all the sheets. To save her time she wants to create a macro.
(a) Write steps to create a macro.
(b) Write steps to run a macro.
(c) Write any two advantages of macro.
(d) What is the extension of files in OpenOffice Calc and MS Excel?

ALL THE BEST

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