Question Bank

Class XI
Computer Science

Chapter – 6: GETTING STARTED WITH PYTHON

Very Short answer Type Questions
Q.1 When was Python released?
Ans- Python was released in February 1991.

Q.2 Who developed Python?

Ans- Python was developed by Guido Van Rossum.
Q.3 Which two languages contributed to Python as a Programming Language?
Ans- ABC language and Modula 3.
Q.4 Is Python an Object Oriented Language?
Ans- Yes, Python is an object oriented language.
Q.5 Python got its name from which show?
Ans- Python got its name from famous BBC comedy show “Monty Python’s Flying Circus”.
Short Answer Type Questions
Q.1 „Python is an interpreted language‟. What does it mean to you?
Ans- It means that the Python installation interprets and executes the code line by line at a time.
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Q.2 What does a cross platform language mean?

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Ans- it means a language can run equally on variety of platforms-Windows, Linux/UNIX, Macintosh,
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Supercomputers, Smart phones etc.

Q.3 Python is a Free and Open Source language. What do you understand by this feature?
Ans- It means Python is freely available without any cost. Its source code is also available. One can modify,
improve/extend an open source software.
Q.4 In how many ways, can you work in Python?
Ans-In two ways we can work in Python-
(i) Interactive mode
(ii) Script Mode
Q.5 What is the difference between Interactive mode and Script Mode in Python?
Ans- In interactive mode, one command can run at a time and commands are not saved. Whereas in Script
mode, we can save all the commands in the form of a program file and can see output of all lines together.

Q.6 What are the advantages of Python?

Ans- Advantages-
i. Easy to use OO Language.
ii. Expressive Language.
iii. Interpreted Language.
iv. It is complete.
v. Cross-Platform Language.
vi. Free and Open Source.
vii. Variety of Usage/ Applications

Q.7 What are the limitations of Python?

Ans- limitations-
i. Not the fastest language.
 ii. Lesser Libraries than C, Java, Perl.
iii. Not strong on Type Binding.
iv. Not easily convertible.
Skill Based Questions
Q.1 Which of the following are not valid strings in Python?
(a)‖Hello‖ (b) ‗Hello‘ (c)‖Hello‘ (d) ‗Hello‖ (e) {Hello}
Ans- String (c) , (d) and (e ) are not valid strings.
Q.2 Write Instructions in python to get the following result: (Do it in both interactive
mode and script mode)
I am a student of KV Barabanki
I live in Barabanki
And I love Barabanki.
Barabanki is 20 KM away from Lucknow
This Place is famous for Dewa Sharif
Ans- In Interactive Mode-
>>> print("I am a student of KV Barabanki \nI live in Barabanki \nAnd I love Barabanki\n\n Barabanki is 20
KM away from Lucknow\n This Place is famous for Dewa Sharif")
In Script Mode-
print("I am a student of KV Barabanki \n I live in Barabanki \nAnd I love Barabanki\n\n Barabanki is 20 KM
away from Lucknow\n This Place is famous for Dewa Sharif")
(save this code to a file and then run the file)
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Chapter – 7: PYTHON FUNDAMENTALS

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Very Short answer Type Questions

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Q.1 What is None literal in Python?

Ans: Python has one special literal, which is None. The None literal is used to indicate absence of
value. It is also used to indicate the end of lists in Python. It means ―There is nothing here‖.
Q.2 What is the error in following code: x, y =7 ?
Ans: The following error comes - 'int' object is not iterable. Which means an integer object i.e.
cannot be repeated for x and y. one more integer object is required after 7.
Q.3 what will the following code do: a=b=18 ?
Ans: This code will assign 18 to a and b both.
Q.4 Following code is creating problem X = 0281, find reason.
Ans: 0281 is an invalid token.
Q.5 Find the error in the following code:
(a) temp=90 (b) a=12 (c) print(“x=”x)
Print temp b=a+b
print( a And b)
(d) a, b, c=2, 8, 4 (e) x = 23 (f) else = 21-4
print(a, b, c) 4=x
c, b, a = a, b, c
print(a; b; c)
Ans: (a) Missing parentheses in call to 'print'.
(b) Name ‗b‘ is not defined.
(c) Invalid Syntax.
(d) Invalid Syntax in second print statement.
(e) can't assign to literal in second line.
(f) Invalid Syntax.
Q.6 Find the error in the following code:
(a) y = x +5 (b) a=input(“Value: “) (c) print(x = y = 5)
print(x,y) b = a/2
print( a, b)
Ans: (a) Name 'x' is not defined.
(b) Unsupported operand type(s) for /: 'str' and 'int'.
(c) Invalid Syntax.
Short Answer Type Questions
Q.1 What is the difference between a keyword and an identifier?
Ans: Difference between Keyword and Identifier: Every language has keywords and identifiers,
which are only understood by its compiler. Keywords are predefined reserved words, which
possess special meaning. An identifier is a unique name given to a particular variable, function
or label of class in the program.
Q.2 What are literals in Python? How many types of Literals allowed in Python?
Ans: Literals: Python comes with some built-in objects. Some are used so often that Python has a
quick way to make these objects, called literals.
The literals include the string, Unicode string, integer, float, long, list, tuple and
dictionary types.
Q.3 How many types of sequences are supported in Python?
Ans: Three Types of Sequences are supported in python:
(i) String
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Ans: (i) An identifier must start with a letter or underscore followed by any number of digits
and/or letters.
(ii) No reserved word or standard identifier should be used.
(iii) No special character (Other than underscore) should be included in the identifier.
Q.5 What is the difference between an expression and a statement in Python?
Ans: A statement is an instruction that the Python interpreter can execute. We have only seen the
assignment statement so far. Some other kinds of statements that we‘ll see shortly
are while statements, forstatements, if statements, and import statements. (There are other
kinds too!)
An expression is a combination of values, variables, operators, and calls to functions.
Expressions need to be evaluated. If you ask Python to print an expression, the
interpreter evaluates the expression and displays the result.
Q.6 What are tokens in Python? How many types of tokens allowed in Python?
Ans: Tokens are the smallest unit of the program. There are following tokens in Python:
 Reserved words or Keywords
 Identifiers
 Literals Definition of all tokens may come. Which is not given
 Operators in this question bank.
 Punctuators

Q.7 What are operators? What is their function? Give examples of some unary and binary
operators.
Ans: “Operators are those symbols used with operands, which tells compiler which operation is to be
done on operands.‖ in other words – ―operators are tokens that trigger some
computation/action when applied to variables and other objects in an expression.‖
Operators are of following types:
 Unary operators like (+) Unary Plus, (-) Unary Minus, not etc.
 Binary Operators like (+) addition, (*) multiplication, and etc.

Q.8 What is block/code block/suit in Python?

Ans: Sometimes a group of statements is part of another statement of function. Such a group of one
or more statements is called block or code-block or suit in python. e.g.

Q.9 What is the role of indentation in Python?

Ans: Indentation plays a very important role in Python. Python uses indentation to create blocks of
code. Statements at same indentation level are part of same block/suit. You cannot
unnecessarily indent a statement; python will raise an error for that.
Q.10 How many types of strings are supported by Python?
Ans: Python supports two types of strings:
(i) Single-line string That terminates in single line.
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(ii) Multi-line String That stores multiple lines of text.

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Skill Based Questions

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Q.1 What will be the sizes of following constants?

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(a) „\a‟ (b) “\a” (c) “Kumar\‟s” (d) „\”‟ (e) “it‟s”
Ans: (a) 50 (b) 50 (c) 56 (d) 50 (e) 53
This screenshot is the output of the above question.

Q.2 How can you create multi-line strings in Python?

Ans: We can create multi-line string by putting a backslash (\) at the end of line which allows you to
continue typing in next line in same string.

Q.3 Which of the following are syntactically correct strings? State reason.
(a) ”Python is nice Language”
(b) „He called me “Friend!” when he came‟
(c) “Very Good‟
(d) „This is a good book‟
(e) “Namaste
(f) “I liked „Harry Potter‟ very much”
Ans: (a) Correct (b) Correct (c) Incorrect (d) Correct (e) Incorrect (f) Correct
Q.4 What is the error in following Python program with one statement?
print(“My name is : “, name)
suggest a solution
Ans: Error is : ―name 'name' is not defined‖. And the solution is to declare the variable-name before
this statement.

Q.5 Predict the output of the following:

Ans: Output: 17 5
Q.6 What will be the output of the following code:

Ans: Output: Hari , you are 18 now but You will be 19 next year
Q.7 Write a Program to obtain temperature in Celsius and convert it into Fahrenheit using
formula –
C X 9/5 + 32 = F
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Q.8 Predict output:

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Ans: Output: 4 6 8
Q.9 WAP to read todays date (only date Part) from user. Then display how many days are
left in the current month.
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Q.10 WAP to print the area of circle when radius of the circle is given by user.
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Q.11 WAP to print the volume of a cylinder when radius and height of the cylinder is given
by user.
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Q.12 WAP that asks your height in centimeters and converts it into foot and inches.
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Q.13 WAP to find area of a triangle.

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Q.14 WAP to calculate simple interest.

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Q.15 WAP to read a number in n and prints n2, n3, n4

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Chapter – 8: DATA HANDLING

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Q.1 Identify the data types of the following values given bellow –
3, 3j, 13.0, „12‟,”14”, 2+0j,19, [1,2,3],(3,4,5)
Ans: 3 – int 3j – complex 13.0 – float ‗12‘ – string ―14‖ – string
2+0j – complex 19 – int [1,2,3] – list (3,4,5) – tuple
Q.2 What will be the output of the following
(a)12/4 (b)14//14 (c)14%4 (d) 14.0/4 (e) 14.0//4 (f)14.0%4
Ans: (a) 3.0 (b) 1 (c) 2 (d) 3.5 (e) 3.0 (f) 2.0
Q.3 What will be the output of the following ?

Ans: 4
4.25
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Q.4 What will be the output of the following ?
(a) bool(0) (b) bool(„0‟) (c) bool(int(„0‟))
(d) bool(str(0.0)) (e) bool(0j) (f) bool(0.0)
Ans: (a) False (b) True (c) False
(d) True (e) False (f) False
Q.5 What will be the output of the following ?
 (a)87//5 (b)(87//5.0) == (87//5) (c) 87//5.0 (d) 17%5.0
Ans: (a) 17 (b) True (c) 17.0 (d) 2.0
Q.6 int(„a‟) produces error. Why?
Ans: This is because ‗a‘ is an invalid literal for int() with base 10.
Q.7 Write following expressions in Python.
√
(a) (b) √ (c) (d)

Ans: (a) (b*b*h)/3

(b) d=math.sqrt(pow(x2-x1,2)+pow(y2-y1,2))
(c) x1=((-b) + math.sqrt((b*b)-(4*a*c)))/(2*a)
x2=((-b) - math.sqrt((b*b)-(4*a*c)))/(2*a)
(d) pow(a,n) * pow(a,m) = pow(a,m+n)

Short Answer Type Questions

Q.1 What are data types? What are Python‟s built-in core data types?
Ans: Every value in Python has a datatype. Since everything is an object in Python programming,
data types are actually classes and variables are instance (object) of these classes.
There are various data types in Python. Some of the important types are listed below.
(i) Numbers (ii) String (iii) List (iv) Tuple (v) Dictionary
Q.2 Which data types of Python handle Numbers?
Ans: It is cleared by name that Number data types are used to store numeric value in Python. The
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Numbers in Python have following core data types:

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b. Booleans
(ii) Floating-Point Numbers
(iii) Complex Numbers
Q.3 Why is Boolean considered a subtype of Integers?
Ans: Because Boolean Values False and True behave like the values 0 and 1, respectively. So
Boolean type is a subtype of plain integers.

Q.4 What do you understand by term „immutable‟?

Ans: Immutable types are those data types that can never change their value in place. In Python the
following types are immutable:
(i) integers
(ii) floating-point numbers
(iii) Booleans
(iv) Strings
(v) Tuples

Q.5 What will be the output of the following code? Why?

(a) 13 or len(13) (b) len(13) or 13
Ans: (a) 13 (b) TypeError: object of type 'int' has no len().
Q.6 What are mutable and immutable types in Python? List both of them.
Ans: Mutable types means those data types whose values can be changed at the time of execution.
They are as follows:
 Lists
 Dictionaries
 Sets
Immutable types are those data types that can never change their value in place. In Python the
following types are immutable:
 integers
 floating-point numbers
 Booleans
 Strings
 Tuples
Q.7 What are augmented assignment operators? How are they useful?
Ans: An augmented assignment is generally used to replace a statement where an operator takes
a variable as one of its arguments and then assigns the result back to the same variable. A
simple example is x += 1 which is expanded to x = x + (1). Similar constructions are often
available for various binary operators. They are helpful in making the source code small.

Skill Based Questions

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Q.2 WAP to check the given year is leap year or not.

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Q.3 WAP to take two numbers and check that the first number is fully divisible by second
number or not.
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Q.4 What will be the output of the following?

Ans: -2
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Q.5 What will be the output of the following?

Ans: 4.0
Q.6 WAP to take value of x,y,z from the user and calculate the equation
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Q.7 WAP to take the temperatures of all 7 days of the week and displays the average
temperature of that week.
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Chapter – 9: FLOW OF CONTROL

Short Answer Type Questions
Q.1 What a range() function does? Give an example.
Ans: The range() function returns a sequence of numbers, starting from 0 by default, and increments
by 1 (by default), and ends at a specified number. its syntax is range(start, stop, step) e.g.
x = range(3, 6) x = range(1, 10,2)
for n in x: for n in x:
print(n) print(n)
#This code will print 3 4 5 #This code will print 1 3 5 7 9
Q.2 What are loops in Python? How many types of loop are there in Python?
Ans: Loops are iteration constructs in Python. Iteration means repetition of a set of statements
depending upon a condition test. Loops has three basic elements within it to repeat the statements –
 Initialization (Start)
 Check Condition (Stop)
 Updation (Step)
Python provide two types of loop
(i) Conditional Loop while( (Condition based loop)
(ii) Counting loop for (loop for a given number of times).
Q.3 What is the syntax of if-elif statement in Python?
Ans: The syntax of if-elif statement in python is as follows:
If condition1:
#code-block of statements when condition1 is true
elif condion2:
#code-block of statements when condition2 is true
elif condition3:
#code-block of statements when condition3 is true
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#code-block of statements when all above conditions are false.

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Q.4 What are jump statements in Python? Name jump statements with example.
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Ans: Python offers two jump statements to be used with in loops to jump out of loop-iterations.
These are break and continue statements.

Q.5 Rewrite the following code fragment using for loop.

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Q.6 What is the error in following code. Rewrite the correct code.
Correct
Code:
Q.7 Rewrite the following code fragment using while loop.

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Skill Based Questions

Q.1 WAP that searches for prime numbers from 15 through 25.
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Q.2 WAP to test if given number is prime or not.

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Q.3 WAP to compute the result when two numbers and one operator is given by user.
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Q.4 WAP to calculate the roots of a given quadratic equation.

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Q.5 WAP to input a digit and print it in words.
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Q.6 WAP to check whether square root of a given number is prime or not.
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Q.7 WAP to print first n odd numbers in descending order.

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Q.8 WAP to print the following series –

(i) 1 4 7 10 . . . . . . .40
(ii) 1 -4 7 -10 . . . . . . . . -40
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(ii)
Q.9 WAP to find the average of the list of the numbers entered through keyboard.
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Q.10 WAP to find the largest number from the list of the numbers entered through
keyboard.
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Q.11 WAP to find the 2nd largest number from the list of the numbers entered through
keyboard. (This program is from List Chapter)
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Q.12 WAP to find the sum of n natural numbers.

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Q.13 WAP to find the sum of first n even numbers.

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Q.14 WAP to find the sum of first n odd numbers.

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Q.15 WAP to print the following pattern
(a) * (b) * (c) A (d) 0
** ** AB 22
*** *** ABC 444
**** **** ABCD 8888
***** ***** ABCDE

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Chapter –10: STRING MANIPULATION

Very Short answer Type Questions
Q.1 which of the following is not a Python legal string operation?
(a)‟abc‟+‟abc‟ (b) „abc‟*3 (c)‟abc‟ + 3 (d)‟abc‟.lower()
Ans: (c) ‗abc‘ + 3
Q.2 Out of the following operators, which ones can be used with strings?
=, -, *, /, //, %, >, <>, in, not in, <=
Ans: /, // and %
Q.3 From the string S = “CARPE DIEM”. Which ranges return “DIE” and “CAR”?
Ans: S[6:9] for ―DIE‖ and S[0:3] for ―CAR‖
Q.4 Given a string S = “CARPE DIEM”. If n is length/2 then what would following return?
(a) S[:n] (b) S[n:] (c) S[n:n] (d) S[1:n] (e) S[n:length-1]
Ans: (a) “CARPE‖ (b) “DIEM” (c) „ ‟ (d) “ARPE” (e) “DIE”

Q.5 What would following expression return?

(a) ”Hello World”.upper().lower() (b) ”Hello World”.lower().upper()
(c) ”Hello World”.find(“Wor”,1,6) (d) ”Hello World”.find(“Wor”)
(e) ”Hello World”.find(“wor”) (f) ”Hello World”.isalpha()
(g) ”Hello World”.isalnum() (h) ”Hello World”.isdigit()
(i) “123FGH”.isdigit()
Ans: (a) 'hello world' (b) 'HELLO WORLD'
(c) -1 (d) 6
(e) -1 (f) False
(g) False (h) False
(i) False
Short Answer Type Questions
Q.1 What is a string slice? How is it useful?
Ans: String Slice is a part of a string containing some contiguous characters from the string. It is
accessed from the string by providing a range in ―[ ]‖ brackets i.e. S [n:m]. Python returns all
the characters at indices n, n+1, n+2 . . . m-1 e.g.
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Q.2 Write a python script that traverses through an input string and prints its characters
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Q.3 Which functions would you chose to use to remove leading and trailing white spaces
from a given string?
Ans: Python String strip() function will remove leading and trailing whitespaces. If you want to
remove only leading or trailing spaces, use lstrip() or rstrip() function instead.
Q.4 Suggest appropriate functions for the following tasks –
(a) To check whether the string contains digits.
(b) To find the occurrence a string within another string.
(c) To convert the first letter of a string to upper case.
(d) To convert all the letters of a string to upper case.
(f) To check whether all the letters of the string are in capital letters.
(g) to remove all the white spaces from the beginning of a string.
Ans: (a) isalnum() (b) find() (c) capitalize()
(d) upper() (f) isupper() (g) lstrip()
Q.5 Find the errors -
s=”PURA VIDA”
Print(s[9] + s[9:15])
Ans: Here the error is : Sting index out of range.

Q.6 Find the output – if we give input as “Hello”

Ans: output 1 output2

Skill Based Questions

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Q.1 WAP to print following pattern without using any nested loop.
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Q.2 WAP to print the number of occurrences of a substring into a line.
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Q.3 WAP to check the given string is palindrome or not.
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Q.4 WAP that:

o Prompt the user for a string
o Extract all the digits from the string.
o If there are digits
 Sum the collected digits together.
 Printout:
 The original string
 The digits
 The sum of the digits
o If there are no digits
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Chapter – 6: DEBUGGING PROGRAMS

Short answer Type Questions
Q.1 What do you understand by Syntax errors and Semantics errors?
Ans: Syntax Errors: syntax error occur when rules of a programming language are misused i.e.
grammatical rule of Python is violated. e.g.
X<-x*y
if x=(x*y) etc.
 Semantics Errors: Semantics error occur when statements are not meaningful. e.g.
x*y = z
this will result in a semantical eoor as an expression cannot come on the left side of an
assignment operator.
Q.2 Why are logical errors harder to locate?
Ans: in spite of logical errors presence, program executes without any problems but the output
produced is not correct. Therefore, each and every statement of the program needs to be
scanned and interpreted. Thus the logical errors are harder to locate.
Q.3 What is an Exception?
Ans: Exception in general refers to some contradictory or unusual situation which can be encountered
unexpectedly while executing the program. Unhandled exceptions will cause Python to halt
execution.
Q.4 Why is Exception Handling is required?
Ans: Unhandled exceptions will cause Python to halt execution. The exception handling is ideal for
processing exceptional situations in a controlled way so that program ends gracefully rather
than abrupt crashing of the program.
Q.5 What is the need for debugger tool?
Ans: Debugger tools are very useful especially if the code is big or the error is not very clear, it
becomes very difficult to manually figure out the origin and cause of the problem. Debugger
tools here prove very handy and useful. They show us the line by line execution and its result
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Q.6 What are main error types? Which types are most dangerous and why?
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(i)Compile-time errors (ii) Run-time errors (iii) Logical errors

Logical errors are most dangerous errors because these are most difficult to fix. The
error is caused by a mistake in the program‘s logic. You won‘t get an error message, because
no syntax or runtime error has occurred. You will have to find the problem on your own by
reviewing all the relevant parts of your code – although some tools can flag suspicious code
which looks like it could cause unexpected behaviour.
Q.7 What is a difference between an error and exception?
Ans: Exception and Error: Exceptions are those which can be handled at the run time whereas
errors cannot be handled. An exception is an Object of a type deriving from the System.
Exception class. System Exception is thrown by the CLR (Common Language Runtime) when
errors occur that are nonfatal and recoverable by user.
Q.8 Name some common built-in exceptions in Python.
Ans: Some Common built-in Exceptions in Python are:
(i) EOFError (ii) IOError (iii) NameError (iv) IndexError (v) ImportError
(vi) TypeError (vii) ValueError (viii) ZeroDivisionError (ix) KeyError
Q.9 when does these exception occur?
(a) Type Error (b) Index Error (c) Name Error
Ans: (a) Type Error: Raised when an operation or function is applied to an object of inappropriate
type. e.g. if you try to compute square-root of a string.
(b) Index Error: Raised when a sequence subscript or index is out of range e.g. from a string
of length 4 if you try to read a value of index 4 or more.
(c) Name Error: Raised when an identifier name is not found.
Q.10 What is debugging and code tracing?
Ans: Debugging involves correction of code so that the cause of errors is removed. I other words we
can say that debugging means figure out the origin of error in code, fix the error code and
review and rerun your code to ensure that the error is fixed.

Chapter – 11: LIST MANIPULATION

Very Short answer Type Questions
Q.1 What do you understand by mutability?
Ans: Mutable means changeable. In Python, mutable types are those whose values can be changed
in place. Only three types are mutable in python – Lists, Dictionaries and Sets.
Q.2 Start with the list[8,9,10]. Do the following using list functions
(a) Set the second entry (index 1) to 17
(b) Add 4, 5 and 6 to the end of the list.
(c) Remove the first entry from the list.
(d) Sort the list.
(e) Double the list.
(f) Insert 25 at index 3
Ans: (a) list[1]=17
(b) list.append(4)
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(e) list=list*2
(f) list.insert(3,25)
Q.3 If a is [1, 2, 3], what is the difference (if any) between a*3 and [a, a, a]?
Ans: a*3 will produce [1,2,3,1,2,3,1,2,3], means a list of integers and
[a, a, a] will produce [[1,2,3],[1,2,3],[1,2,3]], means list of lists

Q.4 If a is [1, 2, 3], is a *3 equivalent to a + a + a?

Ans: Yes, Both a*3 and a+a+a will produce same result.

Q.5 If a is [1, 2, 3], what is the meaning of a [1:1] = 9?

Ans: This will generate an error ―TypeError: can only assign an iterable‖.
Q.6 If a is [1, 2, 3], what is the meaning of a [1:2] = 4 and a [1:1] = 4?
Ans: These will generate an error ―TypeError: can only assign an iterable‖.
Q.7 What are list slices?
Ans: List slices are the sub-part of a list extracted out. You can use indexes of the list elements to
create list slices as per following format. Syntax is as follows –
Seq=ListName[start:stop]
Q.8 Does a slice operator always produce a new list?
Ans: Yes, this will create a new list.

Short Answer Type Questions

Q.1 How are lists different from strings when both are sequences?
Ans: Lists are similar to strings in many ways like indexing, slicing, and accessing individual elements
but they are different in the sense that
(i) Lists are mutable while strings are immutable.
(ii) In consecutive locations, strings store the individual characters while list stores the
references of its elements.
(iii) Strings store single type of elements-all characters while lists can store elements
belonging to different types.
Q.2 What are nested Lists?
Ans: A list can have an element in it, which itself is a list. Such a list is called nested list. e.g.
L = [1,2,3,4,[5,6,7],8]
Q.3 Discuss the utility and significance of Lists.
Ans: The list is a most versatile datatype available in Python which can be written as a list of comma-
separated values (items) between square brackets. Important thing about a list is that items in
a list need not be of the same type. List is majorly used with dictionaries when there is large
number of data.
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>>>del List[start:stop]
pop method is used to remove single element, not list slices. The pop() method removes an
individual item and returns it. Its syntax is –
>>>a=List.pop() #this will remove last item and deleted item will be assigned to a.
>>>a=List[10] # this will remove the ite at index 10 and deleted item will be assigned to a.
Q.5 What are list slices?
Ans: List slices, like string slices are the sub part of a list extracted out. Indexes can be used to
create list slices as per following format:
seq = L[start:stop]
Q.6 What do you understand by true copy of a list? How is it different from shallow copy?
Ans: A shallow copy means constructing a new collection object and then populating it with
references to the child objects found in the original. In essence, a shallow copy is only one level
deep. The copying process does not recurse and therefore won‘t create copies of the child
objects themselves.
True Copy means you can create a copy of a list using New_list=My_list. The assignment just
copies the reference to the list, not the actual list, so both new_list and my_list refer to the
same list after the assignment.
Q.7 Predict the output – Ans:

Q.8 Predict the output – Ans:

Skill Based Questions

Skill Based Questions

Q.1 WAP to find minimum element from a list of elements along with its index in the list.
Ans: This program is for 1 or 2 marks

Or
This program is for 3 or 4 marks

output
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Q.2 WAP to calculate mean of a given list of numbers.

Ans: This program is for 1 or 2 marks

OR
This program is for 3 or 4 marks

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Q.3 WAP to search for an element in a given list of numbers.

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Q.4 WAP to count frequency of a given element in a list of numbers.
Ans: This program is for 1 or 2 marks

Or
This program is for 3 or 4 marks

output

Q.5 WAP to calculate the sum of integers of the list.

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Q.6 WAP that reverses an array of integers (in place)

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Q.7 WAP that creates a third list after adding two lists.
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Q.8 WAP a program to generate a list of elements of Fibonacci Series.

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Chapter – 12: TUPLES

Very Short answer Type Questions
Q.1 What do you understand by immutability?
Ans: Immutability means not changeable. The immutable types are those that can never change
their value in place. In python following types are immutable –
I. Integers
 II. Floating point numbers
III. Booleans
IV. Strings
V. Tuples
Q.2 What is the length of the tuple shown below?
T = ((((„a‟, 1), ‟b‟, ‟c‟), ‟d‟, 2), ‟e‟, 3)
Ans: 3, because tuple contains only 3 elements.
Q.3 If a is (1, 2, 3), what is the difference (if any) between a*3 and [a, a, a]?
Ans: a*3 is different from [a,a,a] because, a*3 will produce a tuple (1,2,3,1,2,3,1,2,3) and [a, a, a]
will produce a list of tuples [(1,2,3),(1,2,3),(1,2,3)].
Q.4 If a is (1, 2, 3), is a *3 equivalent to a + a + a?
Ans: Yes
Q.5 If a is (1, 2, 3), what is the meaning of a [1:1] = 9?
Ans: This will produce an error: TypeError: 'tuple' object does not support item assignment
Q.6 If a is (1, 2, 3), what is the meaning of a [1:2] = 4 and a [1:1] = 4?
Ans: This will produce an error: TypeError: 'tuple' object does not support item assignment
Q.7 Does a slice operator always produce a new Tuple?
Ans: Yes
Q.8 How is an empty Tuple created?
Ans: To create an empty tuple we have to write –
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Q.10 What is the difference between (30) and (30,)?
Ans: (30) is an integer while (30,) is a tuple.
Short Answer Type Questions
Q.1 How are Tuples different from Lists when both are sequences?
Ans: Tuples are similar to lists in many ways like indexing, slicing, and accessing individual values
but they are different in the sense that –
Tuples are immutable while lists are mutable.
List can grow or shrink while tuples cannot.
Q.2 Can tuples be nested?
Ans: Yes, tuples can be nested. e.g (1,2,3,(4,5,6))
Q.3 Discuss the utility and significance of Tuples.
Ans: Tuples are great for holding static data that you don't plan on modifying and changing a lot.
Tuples are four to seven times faster than lists. This means for every list item manipulated, four
to seven tuples could be manipulated within that time frame. This has huge advantages for
scientific work, as this allows for speedy data reading.
Q.4 How can you say that a tuple is an ordered list of objects?
Ans: A tuple is an ordered list of objects. This is evidenced by the fact that the objects can be
accessed through the use of an ordinal index amd for a given index, same element is returned
everytime.
Q.5 How can you add an extra element to a tuple?
Ans: We can add an extra element to the tuple as follows – >>>T = T +(9,) e.g.

Q.6 Find out the output generated by following code fragments:

(a) plane = (“Passengers”, ”Luggage”)
plane [1] = “Snakes”
(b) (a, b, c) = (1,2,3) (c) (a, b, c, d) = (1,2,3)
(d) a, b, c, d = (1,2,3) (e) a, b, c, d, e = (p, q, r, s, t) = t1
Ans: (a) TypeError: 'tuple' object does not support item assignment
(b) This will assign 1 to a, 2 to b and 3 to c.

(c) ValueError: not enough values to unpack (expected 4, got 3)

(d) ValueError: not enough values to unpack (expected 4, got 3)
(e) If tuple t1 has 5 values then this will assign first value of t1 in to a and p , next value to b
and q and so on.
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Q.8 Predict the output –

Ans: TypeError: 'tuple' object does not support item assignment

Skill Based Questions

Q.1 WAP that creates a tuple storing first 9 items of Fibonacci Series.
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Q.2 WAP that creates a third tuple after adding two tuples. Add second after first tuple.
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Q.4 WAP to calculate the average of the numbers of the tuple.

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Chapter – 13: DICTIONARIES

Very Short answer Type Questions
Q.1 Why can‟t List can be used as keys?
Ans: List is mutable datatype. And Keys of dictionary must be immutable type. This is the region that
list cannot be used as keys.
Q.2 What type of objects can be used as keys in dictionary?
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Ans: Yes, the order of dictionary contents may be changed.

Q.4 Can you modify the keys in a dictionary?
Ans: Keys cannot be modified in dictionary while values are mutable in dictionary.
Q.5 Can you modify the value in a dictionary?
Ans: Yes, Values can be modified in dictionaries.
Q.6 Is dictionary Mutable? Why?
Ans: Dictionary is mutable type because we can change its values.
Short Answer Type Questioemns
Q.1 How are dictionaries different from Lists?
Ans: The dictionary is similar to lists in the sense that it is also a collection of data-items but it is
different from lists in the sense that lists are sequential collections(ordered) and dictionaries are
non-sequential collections(unordered).
Elements in lists or tuples can be accessed by using indexes. But in dictionaries the values can
be obtained using keys. By changing the sequence of key we can shuffle the order of elements
of dictionary while this thing is not possible in list.
Q.2 When are dictionaries more useful than lists?
Ans: Dictionaries can be much more useful than lists when we wanted to store all our friends cell-
phone numbers. We could create a list of pairs,(name of friend, phone number), but once this
list becomes long enough searching this list for a specific phone number will get-time
consuming. Better would be if we could index the list by our friend‘s name. This is precisely
what a dictionary does.
Q.3 Discuss the utility and significance of Dictionaries.
Ans: Dictionaries can be much more useful than lists when we wanted to store all our friends cell-
phone numbers. We could create a list of pairs,(name of friend, phone number), but once this
list becomes long enough searching this list for a specific phone number will get-time
consuming. Better would be if we could index the list by our friend‘s name. This is precisely
what a dictionary does.
Q.4 Why is a dictionary termed as an unordered collection of objects?
Ans: But in dictionaries the values can be obtained using keys. By changing the sequence of key we
can shuffle the order of elements of dictionary while this thing is not possible in list. In
dictionaries there is no index. It uses its keys as index which can be rearranged. That‘s why a
dictionary termed as an unordered collection of objects
Q.5 How is clear() function different from del <dict> Statement?
Ans: clear() removes all the elements of a dictionary and makes it empty dictionary while del
statement removes the complete dictionary as an object. After del statement with a dictionary
name, that dictionary object no longer exists, not even empty dictionary.
Q.6 What is the output produced by the following code -
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Skill Based Questions

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their corresponding number of days.
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Short Answer Type Questions
Q.1 What is sorting? Name some sorting Techniques.
Ans: In computer terms sorting refers to arranging elements in a specific order – ascending or
descending. Some sorting techniques are –
(i) Selection Sort
(ii) Bubble Sort
(iii) Insertion Sort
(iv) Heap Sort
(v) Quick Sort
Q.2 What is the basic principal of sorting in bubble sort?
Ans: The basic principal of bubble sort is to compare two adjoining values and exchange them if they
are not in proper order.
Q.3 Why do number-of-comparisons reduce in every successive iteration in bubble sort?
Ans: For the first iteration of the outer loop, when we are trying to place the largest element in its
correct position, N-1 comparisons takes place. For the second iteration of the outer loop, there
is no need to compare against the last element of the list, because it was put at its correct
position on the previous pass. Therefore, the second iteration requires only N-2 comparisons.
And so on.
Q.4 On which basis can you determine if an algorithm is efficient or not?
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Q.5 What is the basic principal of sorting in Insertion sort?

Ans: Insertion sort is a sorting algorithm that builds a sorted list by taking one element at a time
from the unsorted list and by inserting the element at its correct position in sorted list.
Q.6 Number of operations wise, compare bubble sort and insertion sort techniques.
Ans: In bubble sort in ith iteration you have n-i-1 inner iterations (n^2)/2 total, but in insertion sort
you have maximum i iterations on i'th step, but i/2 on average, as you can stop inner loop
earlier, after you found correct position for the current element. So you have (sum from 0 to n)
/ 2 which is (n^2) / 4 total.
That's why insertion sort is faster than bubble sort.
Q.7 Why insertion sort is considered a better algorithm than bubble sort?
Ans: Insertion sort is slightly better than bubble sorting algorithm. Though the worst case time
complexity are same for both algorithms, time complexity of insertion sort will depend on the
data given. For a array which is already sorted, insertion sort takes linear time, but for the
bubble sort algorithms it will take quadratic time complexity irrespective of arrangement of
data.
Q.8 In which situations, insertion sort also becomes inefficient?
Ans: For large datasets, insertion sort becomes inefficient.
Q.9 What is the main difference between insertion sort and bubble sort techniques?
Ans: Bubble Sort - It is a sorting algorithm in which two adjacent elements of an array are checked
and swapped if they are in wrong order and this process is repeated until we get a sorted array.
 In this first two elements of the array are checked and swapped if they are in wrong order.
Then first and third elements are checked and swapped if they are in wrong order. This
continues till the lat element is checked and swapped if necessary.
Insertion Sort - In this, the second element is compared with the first element and is swapped
if it is not in order. Similarly, we take the third element in the next iteration and place it at the
right place in the sub-array of the first and second elements (as the subarray containing the
first and second elements is already sorted). We repeat this step with the fourth element of the
array in the next iteration and place it at the right position in the subarray containing the first,
second and the third elements. We repeat this process until our array gets sorted.
Q.10 When and why would you choose insertion sort over bubble sort?
Ans: When databases are smaller, insertion sort will be beneficial. And where there are large
databases than bubble sort will perform better.

Skill Based Questions

Q.1 WAP to perform insertion sort in a list.
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Q.2 WAP to sort a list using bubble sort technique.

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Chapter – 1: COMPUTER SYSTEM OVERVIEW

Very Short answer Type Questions
Q.1 What is volatile memory?
Ans: RAM is known as Volatile Memory because when we switch off the computer its data is
vanished.
Q.2 Define each of the following:
(a) byte (b) kilobyte (c) megabyte (d) gigabyte (e) terabyte
Ans: (a) byte: This is the unit of memory in computer. 1 byte = 8 bits
(b) kilobyte: This is the unit of memory in computer. 1 kilobyte = 1024 bytes
(c) megabyte: This is the unit of memory in computer. 1 megabyte = 1024 kilobytes
(d) gigabyte: This is the unit of memory in computer. 1 gigabyte = 1024 megabytes
(e) terabyte: This is the unit of memory in computer. 1 terabyte = 1024 gigabytes.
 Short Answer Type Questions
Q.1 State the basic units of computer. Name the subunits that make up the CPU, and give
the function of each of the unit.
Ans: Basic units of computer are Input Unit, Central Processing Unit and Output Unit. Sub unites of
CPU are Arithmetical Logical Unit(ALU), Control Unit (CU) and Memory Unit(MU).
Q.2 What is the function of memory? What are its measuring units?
Ans: The computer memory is a temporary storage area. It holds the data and instructions that
the Central Processing Unit (CPU) needs. Before a program can run, the program is loaded from
some storage medium into the memory. This allows the CPU direct access to the program. Its
measuring units are byte, kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte, terabyte etc.
Q.3 Why is primary memory termed as „destructive write‟ memory but „non-destructive
read‟ memory?
Ans: The primary memory is called destructive write because the data enter here are temporary.
That‘s why your RAM gets cleared after every restart.
Q.4 What is the role of CPU of a mobile system?
Ans: A mobile processor is found in mobile computers and cellphones.
A CPU chip is designed for portable computers, it is typically housed in a smaller chip package,
but more importantly, in order to run cooler, it uses lower voltages than its desktop counterpart
and has more sleep mode capability. A mobile processor can be throttled down to different
power levels or sections of the chip can be turned off entirely when not in use. Further,
the clock frequency may be stepped down under low processor loads. This stepping down
conserves power and prolongs battery life.
Q.5 What is SoC? how it is different from CPU? Why is it considered a better development?
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Ans: A system on a chip (SoC) combines the required electronic circuits of various computer
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components onto a single, integrated chip (IC). SoC is a complete electronic substrate system
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that may contain analog, digital, mixed-signal or radio frequency functions. Its components
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multi-core, and system memory (RAM).

Because SOC includes both the hardware and software, it uses less power, has better
performance, requires less space and is more reliable than multi-chip systems. Most system-on-
chips today come inside mobile devices like smartphones and tablets. These are considered a
better development because of their small size and speed capability.
Q.6 What are various categories of software?
Ans: Software are classified into following categories –
(i) System Software
a. Operating System
b. Language Processor
(ii) Application Software
a. Packages
b. Utilities
c. Customized software
d. Developer Tools
Q.7 What is the difference between an interpreter and a compiler?
Ans: Interpreter: Interpreter is a type of system software that translates and executes instructions
written in a computer program lini-by-line, unit by unit etc. It is slower in execution because
each time when you run the program translation is required.
Compiler: Compiler is another type of system software that translates and executes
instructions written in a computer program in one go. Once compiled program need not to
translate again so it works faster.
Q.8 What is application software? Why it is required?
Ans: Application software is the set of programs necessary to carry out operations for a specific task.
Such as for word processing there are many application software like MS-Word, Wordpad etc.
These software are required to perform special task using the computer like painting, recording,
typing, data handling etc.
Q.9 Briefly explain the basic architecture of a computer.
Ans: Computer organization refers to logical structure of a computer describing how its components
are connected to one another, how they affect one another‘s functioning and contributes to
overall performance of computer.
Computers follow the ‗IPO‘ principal i.e.
Input Process Output
(That means a certain input is processed to
Generate specific output)

Q.10 What do you understand by input unit? What is its significance? What does computer
system consist of?
Ans: Input unit is formed by the input devices(Keyboard, mouse, MICR, OBCR etc.) attached to the
computer. Input unit is responsible for taking input and converting it into computer
understandable form(the binary code). Some common input devices are:
(i) Keyboard
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(v) Webcam
(vi) Optical Bar Code Reader
(vii) Optical Mark Reader
(viii) Magnetic Ink Character Reader
(ix) Touch Pad
(x) Track Ball
(xi) Joy stick
(xii) Touch Screen
(xiii) Biometric Sensors. Etc.
Q.11 What is the function of CPU in a computer system? What are its sub units?
Ans: The central processing unit (CPU) of a computer is a piece of hardware that carries out the
instructions of a computer program. It performs the basic arithmetical, logical, and input/output
operations of a computer system. The CPU is like the brains of the computer - every instruction,
no matter how simple, has to go through the CPU. So let's say you press the letter 'k' on your
keyboard and it appears on the screen - the CPU of your computer is what makes this possible.
The CPU is sometimes also referred to as the central processor unit, or processor for short. So
when you are looking at the specifications of a computer at your local electronics store, it
typically refers to the CPU as the processor. Its sub units are:
(i) Control Unit (ii) Arithmetical and Logical Unit (ALU) (iii) Memory Unit
Q.12 What functions are performed by the control unit?
Ans: The CU controls and guides the interpretation, flow and manipulation of all data and
information. CU sends control signals until the required operations are done properly by ALU
and memory. Another function of CU is the program execution. It means carrying out all the
instructions stored in the program. CU gets program instruction from the memory and executes
them one after the other. CU acts as a supervisor by controlling and guiding the operation
taking place.
Q.13 Distinguish between CPU and ALU?
Ans: Difference Between ALU and CPU is that arithmetic logic unit (ALU), another component
of the processor, performs arithmetic, comparison, and other operations. While Processor also
central processing unit (CPU), interprets and carries out the basic instructions that operate a
computer.
The main difference between CPU and ALU is that the CPU is an electronic circuit that
handles instructions to operate the computer while the ALU is a subsystem of the CPU that
performs arithmetic and logical operations.
Q.14 What is the function of output unit in a computer system?
Ans: Input devices are the hardware that give computers instructions. Output devices relay the
response from the computer in the form of a visual response (monitor), sound (speakers) or
media devices (CD or DVD drives). The purpose of these devices is to translate the machine's
response to a usable form for the computer user.
Q.15 Distinguish between internal and external memory.
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Q.16 What are RAM and ROM? How are they alike? How are they different? What are PROM,
EPROM, EEPROM?
Ans: A ROM chip is a non-volatile storage medium, which means it does not require a constant source
of power to retain the information stored on it.
A RAM chip is volatile, which means it loses any information it is holding when the power is
turned off.
Both of them are known as primary memory as they can directly work with CPU.
Read Only Memory (ROM)
Programmable Read Only Memory (PROM)
Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory (EPROM)
Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory (EEPROM)
Q.17 What are major functional components of a mobile system?
Ans: Major functional components of a mobile system are-
(i) Mobile Processor
a. Communications Processing Unit
b. Application Processing Unit
c. GPU (Graphics Processing Unit)
(ii) SoC (System on a chip)
(iii) Display Subsystem
 a. Display Screen
b. Touch Sensitive Interface
c. Touch Sensitive Keyboards
(iv) Camera Subsystem
(v) Mobile System Memory
a. RAM
b. ROM
(vi) Storage
(vii) Power Management Subsystem
Q.18 Draw a block diagram depicting organization of a mobile system.
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Q.19 What is the role of Power Management Unit in a mobile system?

Ans: This subsystem is responsible for providing power to a mobile system. The mobile
systems work on limited power provided through an attached battery unit. This system has a
battery management system that works with a battery charger and a battery unit and provides
power to the mobile system in required form.
It also contains a collection of different functions like battery charging, monitoring and
supplying many different voltages these systems require. It also contains software controlled
turn-on and turn-off feature to optimize the power consumption and battery life.
Q.20 What does the communication processor do?
Ans: this subsystem is responsible for making and receiving phone calls on a mobile handset. It has
a digital signal processor that helps it work with RF Transceiver and the Audio subsystem.
Q.21 What is GPU? How is it useful?
Ans: Graphics Processing Unit assists the CPU by handling the visuals, other graphically-rich
applications. In short, GPU handles all graphics-related chores of a mobile CPU.
Q.22 What is system software?
Ans: The software that controls internal computer operations is called system software. It manages
all the resources of a system. Its example is Operating System.
Q.23 Discuss the role of utility software in the context of computer performance?
Ans: Utilities are those application programs that assist the computer by performing housekeeping
functions like backing up disk or scanning/cleaning viruses or arranging information etc. its
example is Antivirus software.
Q.24 What is the importance of an OS?
Ans: An operating system is a program which acts as an interface between a user and the hardware.
It manages all the resources of the computer system. It provides and environment to the user
to work with. All the application are installed after the operating system is installed. It manages
memory, processing, storage, memory etc.
Q.25 How are software libraries useful? Name some software libraries of Python.
Ans: A software library is a predefined and available to use, suit of data and programming code in
the form of prewritten code/ functions/scripts/classes etc. that can be used in the development
of the new software programs and applications.
Some software library in python are:
(i) NumPy (numerical Python)
(ii) SciPy (Scientific Python)
(iii) Pandas Library
Q.26 What is the utility of these software?
(a) disk fragmentor (b) backup software
Ans: (a) disk fragmentor: A file is fragmented when it becomes too large for your computer to
store in a single location on a disk. When this happens, your computer splits the file up and
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duplicating the disk information so that in case of any damage or data-loss, this backed-up data
may be used.

Chapter – 2: DATA REPRESENTATION

Very Short answer Type Questions
Q.1 Add the binary numbers (a) 110101 and 101111 (b) 10110 and 1101
Ans: (a) 1100100 (b) 100011
Q.2 Convert 111110111101012 to octal.
Ans: 37365
Q.3 Covert the following binary numbers to decimal -
(a)1010 (b) 111000 (c) 10101111 (d) 10110
Ans: (a) 10 (b) 56 (c) 175 (d) 22
Q.4 Covert the following Decimal numbers to binary -
(a) 23 (b) 100 (c) 161 (d) 145
Ans: (a) 10111 (b) 1100100 (c) 10100001 (d) 10010001
Q.5 Covert the following Hexadecimal numbers to Binary -
(a) BE (b) BC9 (c) A07 (d) 7AB4
Ans: (a)10111110 (b) 101111001001 (c) 101000000111 (d) 0111101010110100
Q.6 Covert the following binary numbers to Hexadecimal -
(a)101000001 (b) 11100011 (c) 10101111 (d) 101101111
Ans: (a) 141 (b) E3 (c) AF (d)16F
Q.7 Covert the following Octal numbers to Binary -
(a) 456 (b) 26 (c) 751 (d) 777
Ans: (a) 100101110 (b) 010110 (c) 111101001 (d)111111111
Q.8 Convert the following:
(a) 4468 to ( )16 (b) 47.58 to ( )10 (c) 45.910 to ( )2
Ans: (a) 126 (b) 39.625 (c) 101101.1110

Short Answer Type Questions

Q.1 What is the use of encoding schemes?
Ans: A character encoding provides a key to unlock (ie. crack) the code. It is a set of mappings
between the bytes in the computer and the characters in the character set. Without the key, the
data looks like garbage.
So, when you input text using a keyboard or in some other way, the character encoding maps
characters you choose to specific bytes in computer memory, and then to display the text it
reads the bytes back into characters. Unfortunately, there are many different character sets and
character encodings, ie. many different ways of mapping between bytes, code points and
characters. The section Additional information provides a little more detail for those who are
interested.
Q.2 Discuss UTF-8 encoding Scheme.
Ans: UTF-8 is a compromise character encoding that can be as compact as ASCII (if the file is just
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Q.3 How UTF-8 encoding scheme different from UTF-32 encoding scheme?
Ans: UTF-8: Variable-width encoding, backwards compatible with ASCII. ASCII characters (U+0000
to U+007F) take 1 byte, code points U+0080 to U+07FF take 2 bytes, code points U+0800 to
U+FFFF take 3 bytes, code points U+10000 to U+10FFFF take 4 bytes. Good for English text,
not so good for Asian text.
UTF-32 uses 32-bit values for each character. That allows them to use a fixed-width code for
every character. UTF-32 is opposite, it uses the most memory (each character is a fixed 4 bytes
wide), but on the other hand, you know that every character has this precise length, so string
manipulation becomes far simpler. You can compute the number of characters in a string simply
from the length in bytes of the string. You can't do that with UTF-8.
Q.4 What are ASCII and extended ASCII schemes?
Ans: The standard ASCII character set uses just 7 bits for each character. There are several
larger character sets that use 8 bits, which gives them 128 additional characters. The extra
characters are used to represent non-English characters, graphics symbols, and mathematical
symbols.
The extended ASCII character set uses 8 bits, which gives it an additional 128 characters.
The extra characters represent characters from foreign languages and special symbols for
drawing pictures.
Q.5 What is the utility of ISCII encoding schemes?
Ans: ISCII is a bilingual character encoding (not glyphs) scheme. Roman characters and punctuation
marks as defined in the standard lower-ASCII take up the first half the character set (first 128
slots). Characters for indie languages are allocated to the upper slots (128-255). T
Q.6 What is Unicode? What is its significance?
Ans: Unicode is a character encoding standard that has widespread acceptance. Microsoft software
uses Unicode at its core. Whether you realize it or not, you are using Unicode already! Basically,
―computers just deal with numbers. They store letters and other characters by assigning a
number for each one. Before Unicode was invented, there were hundreds of different encoding
systems for assigning these numbers. No single encoding could contain enough characters.1‖
This has been the problem we, in SIL, have often run into. If you are using a legacy encoding
your font conflicts with the font someone in another area of the world uses. You might have
an in your font while someplace else someone used a at the same codepoint. Your files are
incompatible. Unicode provides a unique number for every character and so you do not have
this problem if you use Unicode. If your document calls for U+0289 it will be clear to any
computer program what the character should be
Q.7 What are ASCII and ISCII? Why are these used?
Ans: ASCII uses a 7-bit encoding and ISCII uses an 8-bit which is an extension of ASCII. These are
encoding schemes to represent character set in s computer system.
Q.8 Compare UTF-8 and UTF-32 encoding schemes. Which one is most popular scheme?
Ans: UTF-8: Variable-width encoding, backwards compatible with ASCII. ASCII characters (U+0000
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every character. UTF-32 is opposite, it uses the most memory (each character is a fixed 4 bytes
wide), but on the other hand, you know that every character has this precise length, so string
manipulation becomes far simpler. You can compute the number of characters in a string simply
from the length in bytes of the string. You can't do that with UTF-8.
 Chapter – 3: BOOLEAN LOGIC
Very Short answer Type Questions
Q.1 Prove X. (X+Y) = X using truth table.
Ans: Proof:
X Y X+Y X.(X+Y)
0 0 0 0
0 1 1 1
1 0 1 1
1 1 1 1
Q.2 Give duals for the following –
(a) X+X‟Y (b) XY+XY‟+X‟Y (c) AB+A‟B (d) ABC+AB‟C+A‟BC‟
Ans: (a) X.X‘ + Y (b) (X+Y).(X+Y‘).(X‘+Y)
(c) (A+B).(A‘+B) (d) (A+B+C).(A+B‘+C).(A‘+B+C‘)
Q.3 What is tautology?
Ans: If the result of any logical statement or expression is always TRUE or 1 for all input
combinations, it is called tautology.
Q.4 What is Fallacy?
Ans: If the result of any logical statement or expression is always FALSE or 0 for all input
combinations, it is called fallacy.
Q.5 What is a truth table? What is its significance?
Ans: A truth table is a table which represents all the possible values of logical variables/statements
along with all the possible results of the given combinations of values.
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= X+X.Y since X.X = X
= X.(1+Y)
= X (R.H.S.) since 1+Y = 1
Q.2 Draw logic circuit diagram for the following expression –
(a) Y=AB+B‟C+C‟A‟ (b) R=XYZ‟ + Y.(X+Z‟)
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Q.3 Obtain the Boolean Expression for the logic circuit shown bellow –
Ans: (X.Y‘)‘+(Z‘+W)

Q.4 Find the complement of the following Boolean function : F1=AB‟ + C‟D‟
Ans: Complement of F1 will be (A‘+B).(C+D)
Q.5 State and verify Involution law.
Ans: Involution law says that (X‘)‘ = X.
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0 1 0
1 0 1
Q.6 Prove algebraically X.Y + X‟.Z + Y.Z = X.Y + X‟.Z
Ans: L.H.S. X.Y + X‘.Z + Y.Z = X.Y + X‘.Z + 1.Y.Z
= X.Y + X‘Z + (X+X‘).Y.Z
= X.Y + X‘Z + X.Y.Z + X‘.Y.Z
= X.Y + X.Y.Z + X‘Z + X‘.Y.Z
= X.Y.(1+Z) + X‘.Z.(1+Y)
=X.Y + X‘.Z Since 1+Z= 1 and 1+Y = 1
Q.7 State and verify Absorption law in Boolean Algebra.
Ans: (a) X+XY = X (b) X(X+Y) = X
LHS = X+XY = X(1+Y) = X LHS = X(X+Y) = X.X + X.Y
= X + XY = X(1+Y) = X
Q.8 State DeMorgan‟s law of Boolean Algebra and verify them using truth table.
Ans: (a) (X + Y)‘ = X‘.Y‘ (b) (X.Y)‘ = X‘ + Y‘

Q.9 What do you understand by “logical function”? Give examples for logical functions.
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There are 3 logical operators: AND, OR and NOT.
Q.10 What are basic postulates of Boolean Algebra?
Ans: Postulates
(1) A+0=A A·1=A identity
(2) A + NOT[A] = 1 A · NOT[A] = 0 complement
(3) A+B=B+A A·B=B·A commutative law
(4) A + (B + C) = (A + B) + C A · (B · C) = (A · B) · C associative law
(5) A + (B · C) = (A + B) · (A + C) A · (B + C) = (A · B) + (A · C) distributive law
Q.11 What does duality principal state? What is its usage in Boolean algebra?
Ans: The duality principle ensures that "if we exchange every symbol by its dual in a formula, we get
the dual result".
 Everywhere we see 1, change to 0.
 Everywhere we see 0, change to 1.
 Similarly, (+) to (.) , and (.)to (+).
For example if A+B=1 then its dual will be A.B=0
Q.12 Prove the complementarity law of Boolean algebra using truth table?
Ans: (a) X+X‘=1 (b) X.X‘=0
Q.13 Why are NAND and NOR Gates more popular?
Ans: The NOR Gate has two or more input signals but only one output signal. If all the inputs are 0
(i.e. low) then output signal is 1(high).

The NAND Gate has two or more input signals but only one output signal. If all the inputs are 1
(i.e. High) then output signal is 0(low).

NAND and NOR Gates are known as universal gates because fundamental gates can be made
using them. And By using NAND and NOR Gates the cost and size of circuit gets reduced.

Q.14 Prove algebraically that (X+Y).(X+Z)=X+Y.Z

Ans: L.H.S. (X+Y).(X+Z) = X.X + X.Z + X.Y + Y.Z
=X + X.Z + X.Y + Y.Z Since X.X=X
=X + X.Y + Y.Z Since X+XZ=X
= X + Y.Z R.H.S. Since X+X.Y=X
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Q.17 Make OR Gate using NAND Gate.

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Q.18 Make NOT Gate using NAND Gate.

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Q.19 Make AND Gate using NOR Gate.

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Q.18 Make NOT Gate using NOR Gate.

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Q.19 Which gate is the following circuit equivalent to ?

(a) AND (b) OR (c) NAND (d) NOR (e) None of these
Ans: (b) OR

Chapter – 4: INSIGHT INTO PROGRAM EXECUTION

Short Answer Type Questions
Q.1 What are the front end and back end phases of compiler?
Ans: The front end phase of compiler is Analysis Phase. This phase of compilation identifies all the
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Aspects Compiler Interpreter

A Compiler takes an entire program It takes a single line of code or single
Input as its input. instruction(such as loop) as its input.
It generates intermediate object code
Output from the whole program. It does not create any intermediate object code.
Requires less memory during interpretation as
Requires more memory during interprets single instruction/unit-of-code at a
Memory compilation. time.
Displays lists of errors of entire Displays the error of single line it is
program with line numbers and the interpreting. Thus errors also appear one line at
Errors error(s) in that line. a time.

No. once the role of compiler is over, Always required. Interpreter translates and runs
Always a compiler is no longer required to one instruction every time. So it is always
Required run the executable fuile. required in memory to run the code.
Compilation once done, stays always.
Recompilation not required if the Interpretation is required each time you have to
code(without any change) needs to run the code. The interpreter does not create
run again. The same executable file an executable and hence it is required every
Workload can be rerun without the compiler. time, the code is to run.
Q.3 What are the characteristics of compiler?
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Aspects Compiler
Input A Compiler takes an entire program as its input.
Output It generates intermediate object code from the whole program.
Memory Requires more memory during compilation.
Errors Displays lists of errors of entire program with line numbers and the error(s) in that line.
Always No. once the role of compiler is over, a compiler is no longer required to run the
Required executable fuile.
Compilation once done, stays always. Recompilation not required if the code(without
any change) needs to run again. The same executable file can be rerun without the
Workload compiler.
Q.4 What are the characteristics of Interpreter?
Ans:

Aspects Interpreter
Input It takes a single line of code or single instruction(such as loop) as its input.
Output It does not create any intermediate object code.
Requires less memory during interpretation as interprets single instruction/unit-of-code at a
Memory time.
Errors Displays the error of single line it is interpreting. Thus errors also appear one line at a time.
Always Always required. Interpreter translates and runs one instruction every time. So it is always
Required required in memory to run the code.
Interpretation is required each time you have to run the code. The interpreter does not
Workload create an executable and hence it is required every time, the code is to run.
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storage space, CPU etc. The operating system acts as a manager of the above resources and
allocates them to specific programs and users, whenever necessary to perform a particular task.
Therefore operating system is the resource manager i.e. it can manage the resource of a
computer system internally. The resources are processor, memory, files, and I/O devices. In
simple terms, an operating system is the interface between the user and the machine.
Operating System Management Tasks
1. Processor management which involves putting the tasks into order and pairing them into
manageable size before they go to the CPU.
2. Memory management which coordinates data to and from RAM (random-access memory)
and determines the necessity for virtual memory.
3. Device management which provides interface between connected devices.
4. Storage management which directs permanent data storage.
5. Application which allows standard communication between software and your computer.
6. User interface which allows you to communicate with your computer.
Q.6 What is cloud computing?
Ans: cloud computing is the delivery of computing services—servers, storage, databases, networking,
software, analytics, intelligence and more—over the Internet (―the cloud‖) to offer faster
innovation, flexible resources and economies of scale. You typically pay only for cloud services
you use, helping lower your operating costs, run your infrastructure more efficiently and scale
as your business needs change.
 Cloud computing is a big shift from the traditional way businesses think about IT resources.
Here are seven common reasons organizations are turning to cloud computing services.
Q.7 What are the advantages of parallel computing?
Ans: Parallel computing is a type of computation in which many calculations or the execution of
processes are carried out simultaneously. Large problems can often be divided into smaller
ones, which can then be solved at the same time. It refers to the simultaneous working of
multiple processors to solve a computational problem. Its advantages are –
(i) It saves time and the cost too.
(ii) It makes easier to solve larger or complex problems.
(iii) It provides efficient use of underlying hardware.
(iv) It can utilize the resources available remotely.
Q.8 What is the basic flow of program execution?
Ans: the basic flow of program execution can be defined when a programmer create a program( the
source code), which needs to be converted into binary form so that computer can execute it.
This conversion is done by a software which is known as translator(compiler or interpreter).
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Q.10 What are the steps of compilation?
Ans: The compilation mainly undergoes these steps:
(i) Preprocessing
(ii) Compilation
a. Analysis
b. Synthesis
(iii) Assembly
(iv) Linking
Q.11 What is the role of linker in a compiler?
Ans: The part of the compiler which performs the linking of libraries is called linker. In this phase,
with the help of OS, all memory references are resolved and code is converted to a form which
requires nothing else to run.that is, the code has become executable (.exe. file) now.
Q.12 How is interpretation done?
Ans: Unlike compiler, an interpreter doesn‘t translate the complete code in one go and hand over a
full executable file to execute. Instead, an interpreter translates a single line/section of code at
a time, makes its executable version and suns it immediately.
Q.13 How is a process different from a program?
Ans: A running program or the executing entity is called a process. So a program is a passive entity
when it is stored in storage. When it is copied to memory to get executed and starts its
execution then the program is known as process.
Q.14 What is process scheduling?
Ans: The process scheduling is the activity of the process manager that handles the removal of the
running process from the CPU and the selection of another process on the basis of a particular
strategy.
Process scheduling is an essential part of a Multiprogramming operating systems. Such
operating systems allow more than one process to be loaded into the executable memory at a
time and the loaded process shares the CPU using time multiplexing.
Q.15 What are process scheduling queues?
Ans: The OS maintains all PCBs in Process Scheduling Queues. The OS maintains a separate queue
for each of the process states and PCBs of all processes in the same execution state are placed
in the same queue. When the state of a process is changed, its PCB is unlinked from its current
queue and moved to its new state queue.
The Operating System maintains the following important process scheduling queues −
 Job queue − This queue keeps all the processes in the system.
 Ready queue − This queue keeps a set of all processes residing in main memory, ready and
waiting to execute. A new process is always put in this queue.
 Device queues − The processes which are blocked due to unavailability of an I/O device
constitute this queue.
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responsibility of operating system to manage all the running processes of the system.
Operating system manages processes by performing tasks such as resource allocation and
process scheduling. When a process runs on computer device memory and CPU of computer
are utilized. The operating system also has to synchronize the different processes of computer
system.
A process consists of set of instruction to be executed called process code. A process is also
associated with some data that is to be processed. The resources that a process required for its
execution is called process components. There is also a state that is associated with a process
at a particular instant of time called process state. Similar to these concepts, there are number
of concepts associated with the process management function of an operating system. Some of
those concepts are given as following.
 Process State
 Process Control Block (PCB)
 Process Operations
 Process Scheduling
 Process Synchronization
 Interprocess Communication
 Deadlock
Q.17 What is the role of memory manager and I/O manager of OS?
Ans: Memory management is a form of resource management applied to computer memory. The
essential requirement of memory management is to provide ways to dynamically allocate
portions of memory to programs at their request, and free it for reuse when no longer needed.
This is critical to any advanced computer system where more than a single process might be
underway at any time.
I/O Manager:One of the important jobs of an Operating System is to manage various I/O
devices including mouse, keyboards, touch pad, disk drives, display adapters, USB devices, Bit-
 mapped screen, LED, Analog-to-digital converter, On/off switch, network connections, audio
I/O, printers etc.
An I/O system is required to take an application I/O request and send it to the physical device,
then take whatever response comes back from the device and send it to the application. I/O
devices can be divided into two categories −
 Block devices − A block device is one with which the driver communicates by sending entire
blocks of data. For example, Hard disks, USB cameras, Disk-On-Key etc.
 Character devices − A character device is one with which the driver communicates by
sending and receiving single characters (bytes, octets). For example, serial ports, parallel
ports, sounds cards etc
Q.18 How is private cloud different from public cloud?
Ans: Public cloud: Public clouds are owned and operated by a third-party cloud service providers,
which deliver their computing resources like servers and storage over the Internet. Microsoft
Azure is an example of a public cloud. With a public cloud, all hardware, software and other
supporting infrastructure is owned and managed by the cloud provider. You access these
services and manage your account using a web browser.
Private cloud: A private cloud refers to cloud computing resources used exclusively by a single
business or organization. A private cloud can be physically located on the company‘s on-site
datacenter. Some companies also pay third-party service providers to host their private cloud. A
private cloud is one in which the services and infrastructure are maintained on a private
network.
Q.19 What is parallel computing?
Ans: Parallel computing is a type of computation in which many calculations or the execution of
processes are carried out simultaneously. Large problems can often be divided into smaller
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Q.20 How is parallel computing different from serial computing?

Ans: Serial Computing: A processing in which one task is completed at a time and all the tasks are
run by the processor in a sequence. In real time example, people standing in a queue and
waiting for a railway ticket. In this case, one person can get a ticket at a time. Suppose there
are two queues of people and one cashier is handling both the queues then one person can get
a ticket at a time from both queues. Similarly, processor get lists of tasks and each task is
completed at a time and all other tasks wait till the first one completes. This type of processing
is also known as sequential processing.
Parallel Computing: A type of processing in which multiple tasks are completed at a time by
different processors. Note that in parallel processing there is more than one processor involved.
In real time example, there are multiple queues of people standing to get railway tickets. In this
case, each queue is handled by multiple people, so multiple people will get tickets at a time.
Similarly, in the operating system, there are multiple queues of tasks and multiple tasks are
completed by different processors at a time.
Q.21 What are the advantages of parallel computing?
Ans: Parallel computing is a type of computation in which many calculations or the execution of
processes are carried out simultaneously. Large problems can often be divided into smaller
ones, which can then be solved at the same time. It refers to the simultaneous working of
multiple processors to solve a computational problem. Its advantages are –
(i) It saves time and the cost too.
(ii) It makes easier to solve larger or complex problems.
 Chapter – 15: CYBER SAFETY
Short Answer Type Questions
Q.1 What is cyber safety?
Ans: Using internet with care and responsibility is called Cyber Safety so that we can keep our
personal information safe.
Q.2 What should you do to protect your identity on Internet?
Ans: The things we can do to protect our identity on Internet.
 Most common solution to this is Private browsing or Anonymous browsing.
 Confidentiality of information.
 Appropriate usage of social networking sites.
Q.3 How do websites track you online?
Ans: Whenever you visit a website, your web browser may reveal your location via your device‘s IP
address.
o It can also provide your search and browsing history etc. which may be used by third parties,
like advertisers or criminals.
o This way website track you. Tracking is generally used by advertising networks to build up
details profiles for pinpoint adtargeting.
o This information is compiled through your web usage patterns, and which websites generally
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Q.4 What are cookies? How are they used by websites to track you?
Ans: cookies are small pieces of information websites can store in your browser. Cookies can be –
1. First Party Cookies- These are the cookies that store your own log in id, password, and auto
fill information etc.
2. Third Party Cookies: These are the cookies that websites store to know about your search
history and web browsing history so as to place advertisements as per your interests.
Q.5 What is private browsing? Why is it considered a better way of browsing the Internet?
Ans: Anonymous browsers allow users to view websites without revealing personal information of
user.
It can be sued as a tool for governments, journalists and every security conscious surfers.
A popular solution to this is- Private Browsing.
Incognito browsing open up a version of the browser that will not track your activity.it is
particularly useful if you are entering sensitive data like bank details into your browser.
Proxy works as a middleman between your computer and the website you want to access. Now
the tracking website will get the IP address of proxy site.
Virtual Private Network (VPN) this is a method to add security and privacy to private and public
networks, like WiFi hotspots and Internet. It is originally meant for business employees working
offsite to gain access to shared drives or networks.
Q.6 What is confidentiality of information? How do you ensure it?
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Q.7 What is cyber-crime? How can you report it?

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Q.8 What is cyber bullying and cyber stalking?

Ans: Cyber stalking is the use of the Internet or other electronic means to stalk or harass an
individual, group, or organization. It may include false
accusations, defamation, slander and libel. It may also include monitoring, identity theft,
threats, vandalism, solicitation for sex, or gathering information that may be used to threaten,
embarrass or harass.
Cyber bullying or cyber harassment is a form of bullying or harassment using electronic
means. Cyber bullying and cyber harassment are also known as online bullying. It has become
increasingly common, especially among teenagers. Cyber bullying is when someone, typically
teens, bully or harass others on social media sites. Harmful bullying behavior can include
posting rumors, threats, sexual remarks, a victims' personal information, or pejorative labels
(i.e., hate speech). Bullying or harassment can be identified by repeated behavior and an intent
 to harm. Victims may have lower self-esteem, increased suicidal ideation, and a variety of
emotional responses, including being scared, frustrated, angry, and depressed.
Q.9 What is identity fraud?
Ans: Identity fraud is the use by one person of another person's personal information, without
authorization, to commit a crime or to deceive or defraud that other person or a third person.
Q.10 What is digital footprint? Why is it so important?
Ans: A digital footprint is a trail of data you create while using the Internet. It includes the
websites you visit, emails you send, and information you submit to online services. A
"passive digital footprint" is a data trail you unintentionally leave online.
It is not a matter of gathering one person‘s online activity. The main concern is what the
person is doing. If he or she is going to a dark path then the online activity is the first thing that
will provide a glimpse of it. The matter is serious and digital footprint is going to provide the
fullest information on it. Apart from gathering information the digital footprint provides
knowledge on what the person likes and how well the orientation of his mind is. If you find that
your friend and beloved family member is posting something obnoxious and disgraceful in a
continuous manner then you can stop him from going to the dark path. In this technical society
a digital footprint can give you full information of what the person is thinking. Regardless of all
thoughts of getting diverted from the prime goal, one person should keep a track of all the
information of his online activity. Nowadays, when technology has become too much available
and influencing all the activities in a regular manner, keeping it at a side and thinking without
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Q.11 Why are privacy settings of a social networking site so important?

Ans: Privacy settings, present in most of the major social networking sites can be used by the user to
adjust the visibility of their profile or of certain information on the profile. As a result, this could
eliminate a certain amount of unwanted disclosures and upgrade the level of privacy of the
profile.
Q.12 What are the usage rules for effective use of social networking sites?
o Social media is everywhere these days, from personal to professional front. Social media has
made it too difficult to remain entirely anonymous these days.
o Whatever you do online, leaves a permanent foot print, called digital foot print.
o Once posted these becomes part of public domain and hence are visible to anyone who looks for
it.
o Thus appropriate usage of Social media is very important and you must be aware that it may
pose problems later if not used appropriately.
o You should conduct yourself in a responsible way so that you can enjoy using it.
o Be Authentic.
o Use a Disclaimer.
o Don‘t pick fights Online.
o Don‘t use fake names or pseudonyms.
o Protect your identity.
o Always take publicity test when post something.
 o Respect your audience.
o Respect other's sentiments.
o Monitor comments.
Q.13 Raman wanted to gift his brother a football or a wrist watch. So he searched for many
sports items and wrist watches online. But after that every time he goes online, his web-
browser shows him advertisements about sports items and wrist watches.
(a) Why is this happening?
(b) How could have Raman avoided them?
(c) How can Raman get rid of this now?
Ans: (a) This is happening because third party cookies saved his search preferences and now
websites are posting advertisements based on his preferences.
(b) Robin could have avoided this by privately browsing i.e. opening the web browser in
incognito mode before searching for such things.
(c) Now Robin can delete all the previous history and cookies stored on his computer. This
would stop websites posting advertisements.

Chapter – 16: ONLINE ACCESS AND COMPUTER SECURITY

Short Answer Type Questions
Q.1 What is a virus? What is anti-virus software?
Ans: A computer virus is a malicious program that self-replicates by copying itself to another
program. In other words, the computer virus spreads by itself into other executable code or
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documents. The purpose of creating a computer virus is to infect vulnerable systems, gain
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admin control and steal user sensitive data. Hackers design computer viruses with malicious
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Antivirus software is a program or set of programs that are designed to prevent, search for,
detect, and remove software viruses, and other malicious software like worms, trojans, adware,
and more
Q.2 How is backup utility useful? Is it necessary to take backup of data?
Ans: Backup is a very helpful utility. You can backup your data with that and whenever your data is
corrupted by any virus or Trojans your data will remain safe.
It is not necessary to backup your until or unless you have something really important stuff in
your machine.The backup depends on your wish if you want to make backup, go on for it and if
you don't leave it. But if you have something very useful for you in future then its better to take
backup.
Q.3 What is Computer virus? How can it affect your computer?
Ans: A computer virus is a malicious program that self-replicates by copying itself to another
program. In other words, the computer virus spreads by itself into other executable code or
documents. The purpose of creating a computer virus is to infect vulnerable systems, gain
admin control and steal user sensitive data. Hackers design computer viruses with malicious
intent and prey on online users by tricking them.
Q.4 What are different types of threats to computer security?
Ans: A Threat is a potential violation of security. When a threat is actually executed, it becomes
attack. Those who execute such actions, or cause them to be executed are called attackers.
Some common threats the average computer user faces everyday are
 1. Viruses
2. Worms
3. Trojans
4. Spyware
5. Adware
6. Spamming
7. PC Intrusion:
8. Denial of Service
9. Sweeping
10. Password Guessing
11. Phishing
Q.5 What type damages can be caused by viruses to your computer?
Ans: Damages caused by Viruses:
– Damage or Delete files.
– Slow down your computer.
– Invade your email programs.

Q.6 What are malware? What type damages can they cause to your computer?
Ans: "Malware" is short for malicious software and used as a single term to refer to virus, spy ware,
worm etc. Malware is designed to cause damage to a stand-alone computer or a networked pc.
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Q.7 What is a spam? Why has it become a big Internet issue?

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Ans: Spam email is a form of commercial advertising which is economically viable because email is a
very cost-effective medium for the sender. If just a fraction of the recipients of a spam message
purchase the advertised product, the spammers are making money and the spam problem is
perpetuated.
Q.8 What do you understand by PC intrusion?
Ans: Intrusion - Computer Definition. To compromise a computer system by breaking the security
of such a system or causing it to enter into an insecure state. The act of intruding—or gaining
unauthorized access to a system—typically leaves traces that can be discovered
by intrusion detection systems.
Q.9 What measures would you take to avoid -
(a)Virus attack (b) Spyware (c) Adware (d) Spam (e) PC Intrusion
Ans: (a), (b)& (c) (d)
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Q.10 What are denial-of-service or Sweeper attack?

Ans: A denial-of-service attack is a security event that occurs when an attacker prevents
legitimate users from accessing specific computer systems, devices, services or other IT
resources.
Q.11 What is Phishing?
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Q.12 How is pharming similar to and different from phishing?

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Q.13 What is Authentication and Authorization? Why are these two used together?
Ans: Difference between Authentication and Authorization. Both the terms are often used in
conjunction with each other in terms of security, especially when it comes to gaining access
to the system. Authentication means confirming your own identity, while authorization means
granting access to the system.
Q.14 What is the significance of Firewall in a computer‟s security scheme?
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Q.15 What is Eavesdropping? What security measures can you take up to prevent it?
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Q.16 What is the need for secure passwords?

Ans: A password that is difficult to detect by both humans and computer programs, effectively
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letters, numbers and symbols (@, #, $, %, etc.) if allowed. Passwords are typically case-
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sensitive, so a strong password contains letters in both uppercase and lowercase. Strong
passwords also do not contain words that can be found in a dictionary