Students must start practicing the questions from CBSE Sample Papers for Class 10 Computer Applications with Solutions Set 9 are designed as per the revised syllabus.
CBSE Sample Papers for Class 10 Computer Applications Set 9 with Solutions
Time : 2 hrs
Max. Marks : 50
Instructions
- This Question Paper has 5 Sections A-E.
- All Questions are compulsory. However, internal choices have been provided in some of the questions.
- Section A has 12 questions carrying 01 mark each.
- Section B has 7 Short Answer (SA-I) type questions carrying 02 marks each.
- Section C has 4 Short Answer (SA-II) type questions carrying 03 marks each.
- Section D has 1 Long Answer (LA) type question carrying 04 marks.
- Section E has 2 Source based /Case-based /Passage based Questions carrying 04 marks each.
Section A
(All questions are compulsory)
Question 1.
Which program has launched by TRUSTe?
(a) Trusted Download Beta Program
(b) Proprietary /Open source program
(c) BBB Online
(d) PrivacyBot.Com
Answer:
(a) Trusted Download Beta Program
Question 2.
In URL, http://www.arihant.com/index.htm, which component identifies the website?
(a) http
(b) www.arihant.com
(c) index
(d) .html
Answer:
(b) www.arihant.com
Question 3.
Which mobile technology system provides mobile ultra broadband Internet access?
(a) 3G
(b) 2.5G
(c) 4G
(d) 2G
Answer:
(c) 4G
Question 4.
Which security protocol, protects communications between client and server?
(a) SEL
(b) SSL
(c) POP 3
(d) SMTP
Answer:
(b) SSL
Question 5.
The attribute is used for specifying the URL of the anchor tag.
(a) ref
(b) hurl
(c) href
(d) hdref
Answer:
(c) href
Question 6.
Which of the following statements about search engine is true?
(a) Search engines discriminate between good and bad sites.
(b) Search engines have 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.
Answer:
(d) Search engine is a program designed to search for information on the Web using keywords.
Question 7.
A visited link on a website is generally underlined and in color.
(a) Red
(b) Blue
(c) Green
(d) Purple
Answer:
(d) Purple
Question 8.
Form starts with tag and ends with the tag.
(a) <SUBMIT> <RESET>
(b) <FORM> </FORM>
(c) <OPEN> </CLOSE>
(d) <BODY> </BODY>
Answer:
(b) <FORM> </FORM>
Question 9.
The attribute is used to combine the cells vertically.
(a) rowspan
(b) colspan
(c) align
(d) place
Answer:
(a) rowspan
Question 10.
The tag ……….. is considered to establish a hypertext relationship between the current document and another URL.
(a) <P>
(b) <B>
(c) <A>
(d) <U>
Answer:
(c) <A>
Directions (Q.Nos. 11 and 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 and Reason.
Question 11.
Assertion (A) Information Retrieval is the process of accessing information that is stored on the Internet.
Reason (R) Information Retrieval does not require Internet connection.
(a) Both A and R are true and R is a correct explanation of A.
(b) Both A and R are true but R is not a correct explanation of A.
(c) A is true and R is false.
(d) A is false and R is true.
Answer:
(c) A is true and R is false.
A is true and R is false because Information retrieval always require Internet connection to retrieve or-collect information on various topics.
Question 12.
Assertion (A) The rowspan attribute is used to make a cell span multiple rows.
Reason (R) The rowspan attribute merges more than one cells row wise.
(a) Both A and R are true and R is a correct explanation of A.
(b) Both A and R are true but R is not a correct explanation of A.
(c) A is true and R is false.
(d) A is false and R is true.
Answer:
(d) A is false and R is true.
A is false and R is true because rowspan attribute merges more than one cells row wise.
Section – B (2 Marks Each)
Question 13.
What do you mean by web address?
Answer:
Web is a collection of documents (web pages) stored on computers around the world. Each web page has an address describing where it can be found. This address is known as web address or URL (Uniform Resource Locator). A web address identifies the location of a specific web page on the Internet, such as http://www.learnyoga.com. Every computer connected to the Internet has its unique web address, without which it cannot be reached by other computers.
Question 14.
What is File Transfer Protocol?
Or
Mention any two characteristics of IP address.
Answer:
FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is a standard network protocol used to transfer files from one host to another host over a TCP based network, such as the Internet. FTP is based on Client/Server principle. It establishes two connections between the hosts. One connection is used for data transfer, which is opened and closed for each file transfer and the other for control information which remains connected during the entire interactive FTP session.
Or
Two characteristics of IP address are as follows
- IP addresses are unique.
- IP addresses are also global and standardised.
Question 15.
Write the functions of mailto and name attributes in HTML.
Answer:
mailto – This attribute is used in href, which creates a mail link upon clicking at which the mail software gets opened.
name – It specifies the name of an anchor used to link to different segments within the same HTML document or different HTML documents.
Question 16.
Write two disadvantages of FOI.
Or
Explain digital divide.
Answer:
Apart from the some advantages of FOI, some major disadvantages are also present. These are as follows
- Time Consuming There are number of different departments established which work on various services. So, it is very time consuming task.
- Extra Burden on the Government Authority In high populated nation, some people create disturbance and unnecessary request which is useless. So, it puts an extra burden on government authorities.
Or
Digital divide is a term that describes the uneven distribution of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in society.
The digital divide appears in a number of different context, including
- Differences between rural and urban Internet access.
- Socioeconomic differences between people of different races, income and education that affects their ability to access the internet.
- Differences between developed, developing and emerging nations in terms of the availability of Internet.
Question 17.
Explain CAPTION tag and its align attribute.
Answer:
The <CAPTION > tag is a container tag, which is used for creating a caption for a table. There can be only one caption per table. The <CAPTION> tag has one attribute called align. The align attribute has three values; center, left and right.
Question 18.
What is rules attribute? Mention the difference between the frame attribute and rules attribute.
Or
Write the values that can be specified for rules attribute.
Answer:
rules attribute also works with border attribute of <TABLE> tag. The rules attribute defines which lines or rules to draw between rows and columns in your table.
The basic difference between the frame attribute and rules attribute is that the frame attribute is used to display a specific outer portion of a table border while the rules attribute is used to display a specific, inside portion of a table border.
Or
Values that can be specified for rules attribute are as follows
- none no rules are drawn or hides all interior borders.
- groups rules are drawn between row groups and column groups.
- rows rules are drawn between rows only.
- cols rules are drawn between columns only.
- all rules are drawn between all rows and all columns.
Thus, rules attribute contains 5 types of values that all can be specified for rules.
Question 19.
What is World Wide Web? List two of its attributes.
Answer:
WWW was introduced on 13th March, 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee. It is a system of Internet servers that supports hypertext and multimedia to access several Internet protocols on a single interface. It is often abbreviated as the Web or WWW or W3.
WWW provides various attributes, from which two attributes as follows
(a) User-friendly The WWW resource works smoothly with most Web browsers, such as Internet Explorer, Firefox etc.
(b) Multimedia documents WWW allows users to create and display Web pages that contains various graphics, audio, video, animation and text.
Section – C (3 Marks Each)
Question 20.
Software piracy means copying of data or computer software. Mention some forms of software piracy.
Answer:
The following are forms of software piracy:
- Software counterfeiting This type of software piracy that occurs when fake copies of software are produced in such a way that they appear to be authentic.
- Softlifting Purchasing only one licensed copy of a software and distributing and loading it onto multiple systems is “called softlifting.
- Renting Selling of a software illegally for temporary use as on rent basis is called renting.
- Hard disk loading Installing an illegal copy of software on the hard disk of a personal computer is called hard disk loading.
- Uploading and downloading Creating duplicate copies of the licensed software or uploading and downloading it from the Internet.
Question 21.
Observe the list given below and write the code
Nested Unordered List
Courses List:
- DSA
- Array
- Linked List
- stack
- Queue
- Web Technologies
- HTML
- CSS
- JavaScript
- Aptitude
- Gate
- Placement
Answer:
<HTML> <BODY> <H2>Nested Unordered List</H2> <P>Courses List:</P> <UL> <LI>DSA</LI> <UL> <LI>Array</LI> <LI>Linked List</LI> <LI>stack</LI> <LI>Queue</LI> <LI>Web Technologies</LI> <UL> <LI>HTML</LI> <LI>CSS</LI> <LI>JavaScript</LI> <LI>Aptitude</LI> <LI>Gate</LI> <LI>Placement</LI> </UL> </BODY> </HTML>
Question 22.
Write the equivalent inline CSS for the following HTML tag.
(i)
<body bgcolor ="teal">
(ii)
<img src = "time.gif height= 15 width= 10>
Or
(i) Write an internal CSS code snippet to set right and left margin of the body tag with 7 px each.
(ii) Write an inline CSS code to set the background color for the third level heading as ‘yellow’ containing the text “Indian Institute of Technology”.
Answer:
(i)
<body style= “background-color: teal;">
(ii)
<img src = "time.gif" style = “height: 15 px width: 10 px;">
Or
(i)
body { margin-right : 7 px; margin-left : 7 px; }
(ii)
<h3 style= “background-color: yellow;"> Indian Institute of Technology </h2>
Question 23.
Sunaina has to create a table as shown below. Help her to write the code to display this table.
Answer:
<HTML> <HEAD> </HEAD> <BODY bgcolor = “Light Cyan”> <TABLE border = "1"> <TR> <TR> Roll 'Number </TH> <TH> First Name </TH> <TH> Last Name </TH> <TH> Class </TH> </TR> <TR> <TD>1</TD> <TD>FN1</TD> <TD>LN1</TD> <TD>12th</TD> </TR> <TR> <TD>2</TD> <TD>FN2</TD> <TD>LN2</TD> <TD rowspan =“2”> 11th </TD> </TR> <TR> <TD>3</TD> <TD colspan=“2”>FN3 LN3 </TD> </TR> </TABLE> </BODY> </HTML>
Question 24.
Write an HTML code to design the webpage as shown below, considering the specifications that follow.
You can write the code for given specifications.
Title of the page is “Cleanliness”.
Font style for the page is arial.
Heading of the page is maroon.
Table border is 2px and border color is red.
Link for bottom message is contact.html.
Or
Write the HTML code to design the web page as shown below, considering the specifications that follow. You can write the code for given specifications.
(i) Background color of the page should be yellow.
(ii) Heading ‘Our Country: India’ should be the first level of heading.
(iii) The image named lndia.jpg’ should be placed at the center.
(iv) Superscript and subscript tags should be used wherever required.
(v) Facts (as shown in the above web-page) should be written with the help of the unordered list.
Answer:
The HTML code is
<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE> Cleanliness </TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY link="green"> <BASEFONT face = "arial"> <H1> <FONT color="maroon"> <CENTER> IMPORTANCE OF CLEANLINESS </CENTER> </FONT> </H1> <HR> <IMG src="clean.jpg" align="left" height="120” width="80"> <P align=”justify"> Cleanliness is not a work which we should do forcefully. It is a good habit and healthy way of our healthy life. All type of cleanliness is very necessary for our good health whether it is personal cleanliness, surrounding cleanliness, environment cleanliness, pet animal cleanliness or work place cleanliness (like school, college, office, etc). We all should be highly aware about how to maintain cleanliness in our daily lives. </P> <BR> <OL>Factors affecting the environment <HR width="240" align="left"> <LI> Industrial activities <LI> Vehicles <LI> Rapid urbanization and industrialization <LI> Population overgrowth </OL> <BR> <TABLE border="2" align= "center" bordercolor= "red" width="600"> <CAPTION> Effects </CAPTION> <TR> <TD> Water Pollution is leading to a number of incurable diseases. </TD> </TR> <TR> <TD> Because of Air Pollution there are increasing case of pulmonary tuberculosis and thromosis and various sorts of brain and heart complications. </TD> </TR> <TR> <TD> Digital Media </TD> </TR> <TR> <TD> Soil-pollution may have negative effects on farm output ratio. </TD> </TR> <TR> <TD> Noise-pollution have negative effects on hearing or auditory sense organs. </TD> </TR> <TR> <TD> Thermal pollution is raising (the environment temperature. </TD> </TR> </TABLE> <HR> <CENTER> For more details <A href=" contact, html "> Click Here </A> </CENTER> </BODY> </HTML> Or <HTML> <BODY bgcolor = "yellow"> <CENTER> <H1> Our Country : India </H1> <IMG src = "India.jpg" height = "250" width = "200"> </CENTER> <P> <FONT color=" red” size="5" face="Times New Roman"> India is spread over a large geographical area. In terms of area, it is the 7<SUP>th</SUP> largest country while in terms of population, it is the 2<SUP>nd</SUP> largest country in the world. Some facts about India are as follows</FONTX/P> <UL> <LI>Area : Approx 3.28 million sq. km </LI> <LI>North to South extension : Approx 3,200 km </LI> <LI>East to west extension : Approx 2900 km</LI> </UL> </BODY> </HTML>
Section – E (4 Marks Each)
Case Study-1
Question 25.
Raman is an engineer working in an IT company. He wants to replace his DSL with a good speed Wi-Fi internet connection for home, so that his kids can attend uninterrupted online classes.
Answer the following questions.
(i) Write the full of Wi-Fi and DSL.
(ii) Write any one difference between Wi-Fi and DSL.
(iii) What is Modem?
(iv) What you need for using DSL connection?
Answer:
(i) Full forms are:
- Wi-Fi Wireless Fidelity
- DSL Digital Subscriber Line
(ii) Wi-Fi is a wireless type of connectivity while DSL is a Wired type of connectivity.
(iii) A modem is a device that converts digital signals to analog signals that can travel over phone lines. It also re-converts the analog signals back into digital signals.
(iv) For using a DSL connection, we need a DSL modem and a subscription.
Case Study-2
Question 26.
Shyam sells goods online to different dealers who later on, sell those goods to customers. He promotes his goods online, the transactions are also digital.
There is electronic data interchange and inventory is also managed digitally. Shyam takes care of internet banking and maintains the supply chain with the help of Internet.
Answer the following questions.
(i) What is the appropriate term for Shyam’s business?
(ii) What are the different types of business models available on internet?
(iii) What is the importance of privacy while trading online?
(iv) Mention any two types of frauds used to target online businesses.
Answer:
(i) E-Commerce
(ii) Types of business models
(a) Business to Business
(b) Business to Consumer
(c) Consumer to Consumer
(d) Consumer to Business
(e) Business to Government
(iii) Privacy in E-Commerce is important because parties involved in trading exchange private information like addresses, credit card no. etc. which can be misused.
(iv) Frauds in E-Commerce
(a) Refund Fraud In this case, fraudster uses a stolen credit card and makes an overpayment on purchase.
(b) Fraud via Identity In this case, the fraudsters assumes another person’s identity, creates credit cards in the victim’s name and spends money.