Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan, Ahmedabad Region

First Pre Board Examination 2020-21

Subject: Informatics Practices
Class XII
Max Marks: 70 Time: 3 Hours

General Instructions:
1. This question paper contains two parts A and B. Each part is compulsory.
2. Both Part A and Part B have choices.
3. Part-A has 2 sections:
a. Section – I is short answer questions, to be answered in one word
or one line.
b. Section – II has two case studies questions. Each case study has
4 case-based sub- parts. An examinee is to attempt any 4 out of
the 5subparts.
4. Part - B is Descriptive Paper.
5. Part- B has three sections
a. Section-I is short answer questions of 2 marks each in which two
questions have internal options.
b. Section-II is long answer questions of 3 marks each in which two
questions have internal options.
c. Section-III is very long answer questions of 5 marks each in which one
question has question has internal option.
Part-A
Section - I
Attempt any 15 questions from questions 1 to 21
1 State whether True or False : 1

i. Shareware software allows you to try the software before you buy it.
ii. Copyright is not the right of the creator of creative/artistic work.
2 Fill in the blanks : 1
The command used to show legends is

a. display()
b. show()
c. legend()
d. legends()
3. Write the output of the following SQL command. 1
select round(15.857,-1);

a. 15.8
b. 15.9
c. 15.0
d. 20
4 Given a Pandas series called Sample, the command which will display 1
the last 3 rows is .

a. print(Sample.tail(3))
b. print(Sample.Tail(3))
c. print(Sample.tails(3)
d. print(Sample.Tails(3))

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5 Given the following Series S1 and S2: 1
S1 S2
A 10 A 5
B 20 B 4
C 30 C 6
D 40 D 8

Write the command to find the multiplication of series S1 and S2

6 Which of the following is not a valid chart type? 1

a. lineplot
b. bargraph
c. histogram
d. statistical
7 The address of location of the document on the World Wide Web is called 1
its___________.
8 A digital document hosted on a website is ______________ 1
9 Internet is an example of which topology: 1

Star, Mesh , Tree, Bus

10 In a DataFrame, Axis= 0, represents the elements. 1
11 The now()function in MySql is an example of . 1

a. Math function
b. Text function
c. Date Function
d. Aggregate Function
12 The practice of taking confidential information from you through an 1
original looking site and URL is known as _______________
13 In Pandas the function used to delete a column in a DataFrame is 1

a. remove
b. del
c. drop
d. cancel
14 I am a fraudulent business practice. 1
I can extract money from an unsuspecting, ignorant person.
Who am I?
15 Which amongst the following is the first page we normally view on a 1
Website?
a. Home Page
b. Master Page
c. First Page
d. Banner Page
16 A website store the browsing activity through __________________ 1
17 Give a solution to recycle the E-Waste in the country. 1
18 The command can be used to makes changes in the 1
structure of a table in SQL.
19 Write the SQL command that will display the time and date at which the 1
command got executed.
20 Network device is a broadcast device. 1
21. Gaining unauthorized access to a network or computer with malicious 1
intensions is an example of
.

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 Section -II
Both the case study based questions (22 &23 ) are compulsory.
Attempt any four sub parts from each question. Each sub question
carries 1 mark .
22 Consider the following DataFrame emp and answer any four questions
from (i)- (v)
empno Name Dept salary Experience
(in Years)
1 Ram Singh IT 15000 2.5
2 Shyam Singh HR 18000 3
3 Nidhi Gupta IT 9000 2
4 Puja Sharma EXE 24000 8
5 Rohan Malik HR 20000 6
(i) Write down the command that will give the following output. 1
Empno 5
Name Rohan Malik
Dept HR
Salary 20000
Experience 6
dtype: object

a. print(emp.max)
b. print(emp.max())
c. print(emp.max(axis=1))
d. print(emp.max,axis=1)
(ii) The CEO needs to know the salary of the employee with empno 4. Help him 1
to identify the correct set of statement/s from the given options:

a. emp1=emp[emp[‘empno’]==4]
print(emp1)
b. emp1=emp[emp]
print(emp1)
c. emp1=emp[emp.empno=4]
print(emp1)
d. emp1=emp[emp.empno==4]
print(emp1)
(iii) Which of the following statement/s will give the exact number of values in 1
each column of the dataframe?
i. print(emp.count())
ii. print(emp.count(0))
iii. print(emp.count)
iv. print(emp.count(axis=’index’))

Choose the correct option:

a. both (i) and(ii)
b. only(ii)
c. (i), (ii) and(iii)
d. (i), (ii) and(iv)
(iv) Which of the following command will display the column labels of the 1
DataFrame?

a. print(emp.columns())
b. print(emp.column())
c. print(emp.column)
d. print(emp.columns)

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 (v) Mr. Satvik Ahuja, the CEO wants to add a new column, the rating of the 1
performance of employees with the values, ‘A’, ‘A’, ‘B’, ‘A’, ‘B’, to the
DataFrame. Help him choose the command to do so:

a. emp.column=[’A’,’A’,’B’,’A’,’B’]
b. emp[‘Performance’]=[ ’A’,’A’,’B’,’A’,’B’]
c. emp.loc[‘Performance’]= [’A’,’A’,’B’,’A’,’B’]
d. Both (b) and (c) are correct

23 Consider the SchoolBus table given below:

Rtno Area_covered Capacity Noofstudents Distance Transporter Charges

1 Vasantkunj 100 120 10 Shivamtravels 100000
2 HauzKhas 80 80 10 Anand travels 85000
3 Pitampura 60 55 30 Anand travels 60000
4 Rohini 100 90 35 Anand travels 100000
5 Yamuna Vihar 50 60 20 Bhalla Co. 58000
6 Krishna Nagar 70 80 30 Yadav Co. 80000
7 Vasundhara 100 110 20 Yadav Co. 100000
8 PaschimVihar 40 40 20 Speed travels 55000
(i) State the command that will give the output as :
Area_covered
Yamuna Vihar
Krishna Nagar
Vasundhara
i. select area_covered from schoolbus where transporter=’Yadav
Co.’and transporter=’Bhalla Co.’;
ii. select area_covered from schoolbus where not transporter=’Yadav
Co.’and transporter=’Bhalla Co.’;
iii. select area_covered from schoolbus where transporter =’Yadav Co.’
OR transporter=’Bhalla Co.’;
iv. select area_covered from schoolbus where transporter IN(“Yadav
co.”, “Bhalla co.”);
Choose the correct option:
a. Both (i) and (ii).
b. Both (iii) and (iv).
c. Any of the options (i), (ii) and(iv)
d. Only(iii)
(ii) What will be the output of the following command? 1
Select * from schoolbus where distance=20 order by charges;
a)
Rtno Area_covered Capacity Noofstudents Distance Transporter Charges
5 Yamuna Vihar 50 60 20 Bhalla Co. 58000
7 Vasundhara 100 110 20 Yadav Co. 100000
8 PaschimVihar 40 40 20 Speed 55000
travels
b)
Rtno Area_covered Capacity Noofstudents Distance Transporter Charges
8 PaschimVihar 40 40 20 Speed travels 55000
5 Yamuna Vihar 50 60 20 Bhalla Co. 58000
7 Vasundhara 100 110 20 Yadav Co. 100000

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 c)
Distance Charges
20 58000
120 100000
20 55000
d)
Distance Charges
20 55000
20 58000
20 100000
(iii) Ravi has given the following command to obtain the Longest distance 1

Select max(distance) from schoolbus where group by transporter;

But he is not getting the desired result. Help him by writing the correct
command.

a. select max(distance) from schoolbus where group by transporter;

b. select transporter, max(distance) from schoolbus group by distance;
c. select transporter, max(distance) group by transporter from schoolbus;
d. select transporter, max(distance) from schoolbus group by transporter;
(iv) State the command to display the average of charges as per distance 1
covered?

(v) Help Saumya to write the command to display the name of the 1
transporter who is having lowest capacity in his schoolbus?

a. select transporter,min(capacity) from schoolbus;

b. select transporter,max(capacity) from schoolbus;
c. select transporter,min(capacity) from schoolbus group by transporter;
d. select transporter,maximum(capacity) fromschoolbus;
Part – B

Section – I
24 Consider a given Series , Subject: 2

INDEX MARKS
ENGLISH 75
HINDI 78
MATHS 82
SCIENCE 86

Write a program in Python Pandas to create this series.

25 State any two differences between CHAR and VARCHAR. 2

OR
What is the difference between the where and having clause when used
along with the select statement?
Explain with an example.
26 Consider the decimal number x with value 3875.4897. Write commands in 2
SQL to:

i. Round it off 3 places after the decimal

ii. Round it to 3 places before the decimal.

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27 Consider the following Series object, “company” and its profit in Crores 2
TCS 350
Reliance 200
L&T 800
Wipro 150

i. Write the command which will display the name of the company
having profit>250.
ii. Write the command to name the series as Profit.
28 Mr. Sharma writes the following commands with respect to a table 2
department having fields, deptno, dept_name, head_of_department,
manager.
Command1 : Select count(*) from department;
Command2: Select count(manager) from department;

He gets the output as 8 for the first command but gets an output 6 for the
second command. Explain the output with justification.
29 Consider the following SQL string: “Informatics Practices” 2
Write commands to display:

a. “Practices”
b. “matics”
OR
Considering the same string “Computer”
Write SQL commands to display:

a. the position of the substring ‘ter’ in the string“Computer”

b. the first 4 letters of the string
30 Consider the following DataFrame, sports 2
Sports_Id Name Student Team
s1 1 Hockey 15 B
s2 2 Cricket 20 D
s3 3 Chess 4 C
s4 4 Carrom 4 A

Write commands to :
i. Add a new column ‘Winner’ to the Dataframe
ii. Add a new row with values ( s5 , 5 ,Handball, 20)
31 Expand the following terms related to Computer Networks: 2
a. PPP
b. HTTPS
c. VoIP
d. PAN
32 List any two net etiquettes related to use of Internet Technology. 2
33 Mr. Amit Mishra is using his internet connection for checking the online 2
account of company’s admin without his knowledge. What do we call this
type of activity? What are the ways by which we can avoid such type of
activities?
Section –II
34 Consider two objects a and b. 3
a is a list whereas b is a Series. Both have values 10,20,25,50.
What will be the output of the following two statements considering that the
above objects have been created already

a. print(a*2) b. print(b*2)
Justify your answer.

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35 What do you mean by Phishing? Explain with the help of an example. 3
OR
List any two health hazards related to excessive use of Technology.
36 Consider the following graph. Write the code to plot it. 3

OR

Write code to draw the following bar graph representing the number of
students in each class.

37 A relation Toys is given below : 3

T_no Name Company Price Qty

T001 Doll Barbie 1200 10
T002 Car Seedo_wheels 550 12
T003 Mini House Barbie 1800 15
T004 tiles Seedo_wheels 450 20
T005 Ludo Seedo_wheels 200 24

Write SQL commands to:

a. Display the average price of each type of company having quantity

more than 15.
b. Count the type of toys manufactured by each company.
c. Display the total price of all toys.

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 Section –III
38 Write a program in Python Pandas to create the following DataFrame 5
toppers from a Dictionary:

T_NO Name PB1 PB2

1 Pavan 90 80
2 Sugandha 85 75
3 Pulkita 70 72
4 Sahil 69 71

Perform the following operations on the DataFrame :

1) Add both the marks from PB1 and PB2 of a student and assign to column
“Final”
2) Display the highest marks in both PB1 and PB2 of the DataFrame.
3) Display the DataFrame
39 Write the SQL functions which will perform the following operations: 5
i) To display the name of the day of the current date.
ii) To remove spaces from the beginning of a string, “ Python”.
iii) To display the name of the month eg, January or February from your date
of birth.
iv) To display the starting position of word “Information” from
“Information Technology”
v) To compute the power of two numbers a and b

OR

Consider a table Employee with the following data:

ENO ENAME SALARY BONUS DATE OF JOINING
E01 RamMehta 35000 NULL 02-11-2020
E02 ShyamSahay 55000 32.34 16-03-2008
E03 AlishaThakkar 32000 NULL 18-09-2020
E04 Neena Gupta 85000 28.54 31-11-1993
E05 GautamSingh 24000 NULL 30-09-2020
E06 Tez Singh 75000 22.47 25-07-1985
E07 ReemaSaxena55000 NULL 30-10-2020

Write SQL queries using SQL functions to perform the following operations:
a) Display employee name and bonus after rounding off to zero decimal
places.
b) Display the position of occurrence of the string “ee” in employee names.
c) Display the four characters from employee name starting from
second character.
d) Display the day name for the date of joining of employee
e) Display the name of the month from the date of joining of employee
40. A company in Cyntel Enterprises has 4 departments of buildings as 5
shown in the diagram :

Research Back Office

Corporate
Office Developer Unit

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Center to center distances between various Buildings:
Research to Back Office - 50m
Back Office to Developer Unit - 60m
Developer Unit to Corporate Office - 25m
Corporate Office to Research - 170m
Research to Developer Unit - 125m
Back Office to w4 - 90m

Number of computers in each of the department:

Back Office - 150
Developer Unit - 15
Research -15
Corporate Office – 25

Computers in each department are networked but departments are not

networked The company has now decided to connect the departments also.

i. Suggest a most suitable cable layout for the above connections.

ii. Suggest the most appropriate topology of the connection between the
departments.
iii. The company wants internet accessibility in all the departments. Suggest
a suitable technology.
iv. Suggest the placement of the following devices with justification if the
company wants minimized network traffic
a) Repeater
b) Hub /switch
v. The company is planning to link its head office situated in New Delhi with
the offices in hilly areas. Suggest a way to connect it economically.

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