KENDRIYA VIDYALAYA SANGATHAN REGIONAL OFFICE LUCKNOW

Class XII
INFORMATICS PRACTICES (SUBJECT CODE – 065)
2ND PRE-BOARD EXAMINATION (2020-21)

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 5 subparts.
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.

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Q1 State whether True or False : 1

i. Cyber laws are incorporated for punishing all types of criminals.

ii. Firewall can be implemented in software as well as in hardware.

Q2 Fill in the blanks : 1

Which argument of bar () lets you set the thickness of bar?

a. thick
b. thickness
c. width
d. barwidth

Q3 With WQL, how can you return the number of non null records in the Project 1
field of “Students” table ?
a. SELECT COUNT(Project) FROM Students
b. SELECT COLUMNS(Project) FROM Students
c. SELECT COLUMNS(*) FROM Students
d. SELECT COUNT(*) FROM Students

Q4 To display the 3rd , 4th, and 5th columns from the 6th to 9th rows of 1
dataframe DF, you can write ______.
a. DF.loc[6:9, 3:5]
b. DF.iloc[6:10, 3:6]
c. DF.loc[6:10, 3:5]
d. DF.iloc[6:9, 3:5]

Q5 To get a number of elements in a dataframe,_____attribute may be used. 1

a. size

b. shape

c. values
d. ndim

Q6. The plot which tells the trend between two graphed variables is the _______ 1
graph/chart.
a. line plot
b. bar graph
c. histogram

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Q7 A network having a span of city, is called as _________ 1
Q8 In a DataFrame, Axis= 1 represents the elements. 1
Q9 The____is a network device that connects dissimilar network. 1
Q10 In URL, http://www.python.com/er/main.html, which component identifies 1
the protocol or types of the server.

Q11 Which of the following is not a text function ? 1

a. Trim( )
b. Truncate( )
c. Left( )
d. Mid( )
Q12 The_____is the digital trail of your activity on the Internet. 1
Q13 In Pandas which function is used to delete the column in DataFrame 1

Q14 I can keep you signed in. 1

I can remember your site preferences. I can give you locally relevant
content. Who am I ?

Q15 Which of these is not a part of URL? 1

a. IP Address
b. Port Number
c. Domain Name

Q16 A mail or message sent to a large number of people indiscriminately without 1

their consent is called

Q17 Give a solution to recycle the e-wastage in country? 1

Q18 The command can be used for pattern matching? 1
Q19 Write the SQL command that will display the current time and date 1
Q20 network device is known as an intelligent hub . 1
Q21 Gaining unauthorized access to the network or computer with malicious 1
intention is an example of .
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 .

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Q22 Consider the following DataFrame df and answer any four questions from
(i)- (v)

Hospital Population School

Delhi 123 25678 344
Mumbai 456 7896 255
Kolkata 233 78856 452
Lucknow 122 9875 355
(i) Write down the command that will give the following output. 1
Delhi 25678
Mumbai 7896
Kolkata 78856
Lucknow 9875
Name: Population, dtype: int64

I. print(df['Population'])
II. print(df('Population'))
III. print(df.Population)
IV. print(df.(Population))
Choose the correct option :
(a) Only I
(b) Only II and III
(c) Only I and III
None of above
(ii) Now suppose that you want to display which state has more than 350 schools 1
what command you will write for this purpose :
a. print(df[df['School']>350])
b. print(df[df['School']==350])
c. print(df[df[School]>=350])
d. None of these

(iii) Which of the following commands will display the elements of dataframe in 1
array format?

a. print(df.size)
b. print(df.shape)
c. print(df.shape())
d. print(df.values)

(iv) Which command is used to check whether the dataframe is empty or not? 1
a. Isnan()
b. empty
c. Isnull()
d. None of above

(v) Which of the following terms is not true with reference to DataFrame? 1

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 (a) It has two axes
(b) Columns can have data of same types
(c) DataFrame is mutable.
(d) All of above is true

Q23. Consider the table Worker given below :

(i) What will the output of following command : 1

SELECT NAME FROM WORKER WHERE DOJ>"1998-12-20";

(a)

(b)

(c)

(d)

(ii) State the command that will give the output as : 1

(a) SELECT NAME, DOJ FROM WORKER WHERE GENDER="F" ORDER BY DOJ;
(b) SELECT NAME, DOJ FROM WORKER WHERE GENDER="F" ORDER BY NAME DESC;
(c) SELECT NAME, DOJ FROM WORKER WHERE GENDER="F" ORDER BY NAME;
(d) SELECT NAME, DOJ FROM WORKER WHERE GENDER="F" ;

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(iii) Ragav wants to know number of male and female employee in table worker what the 1
command he will write :
(a) SELECT GENDER, COUNT(*) GROUP BY GENDER FROM WORKER;
(b) SELECT COUNT(*) FROM WORKER WHERE GENDER = “M” OR GENDER=”F”;
(c) SELECT COUNT(*) FROM WORKER WHERE GENDER = “M” AND GENDER=”F”;
(d) SELECT GENDER, COUNT(*) FROM WORKER GROUP BY GENDER;

(iv) Sangita want to display the month in field DOJ which command she will use for this : 1
(a) SELECT DAYOFMONTH(DOJ) FROM WORKER;
(b) SELECT MONTH(DOJ) FROM WORKER;
(c) SELECT DATE(DOJ) FROM WORKER;
(d) ALL OF ABOVE.

(v) Which SQL command is used to delete the row of table

(a) Del
(b) Remove
(c) Delete
(d) All of above

Q24 Total number of medals to be won is 250 in the inter school games held 2
every alternate year. Write code to create a Series object that stores these
medals for games to be held in the decade 2020-2029.
Q25 State any two differences between single row functions and multiple 2
row functions.

OR
What is the difference between the order by and group by clause when
used along with the select statement. Explain with an example.
Q26 Consider the decimal number x with value 8459.2654. Write commands in 2
SQL to:
i. round it off to a whole number
ii. round it to 2 places before the decimal.
Q27 Consider the following Series object mark 2
Amit 345
Harsh 200
Rajnish 350
Manish 400
Aman 450
Dolly 250
Suman 370
(a) Display the marks of Amit.
(b) Display the marks of those student whose score less than 200.

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Q28 What are the aggregate function? Explain with suitable example? 2
Q29 Write SQL commands to display: 2

(a) System date with time

(b) 44

Or
Considering the string “Preoccupied”
Write SQL commands to display:

a. the position of the substring ‘cup’ in the string “Preoccupied”

b. the first 4 letters of the string

Q30 Consider the following DataFrame, classframe 2

Rollno Name Class Section CGPA Stream

St1 1 Aman IX E 8.7 Science
St2 2 Preeti X F 8.9 Arts
St3 3 Kartikey IX D 9.2 Science
St4 4 Lakshay X A 9.4 Commerce
Write commands to :
i. Add a new column ‘Activity’ to the Dataframe
ii. Add a new row with values ( 5 , Mridula ,X, F , 9.8, Science)
Q31 What is the function of Router? Write any two. 2
Q32 What are some health concerns related to the excessive use of technology? 2
Q33 Compare and contrast : Free software and Open source Software 2

Section-II
Q34 Consider the following Series object school 3
Lucknow 350
Delhi 230
Mumbai 350
Punjab 400
Bihar 322
Write the command for following :
(a) Change the value of state Punjab by 450.
(b) Display the data of state Bihar, Mumbai.
(c) Display which state has maximum number of school.
Q35 What do you mean by Identity theft? Explain with the help of an example. 3

OR

What do you understand by Net Etiquettes? Explain any two such etiquettes.
Q36 Create multiple line charts on common plot where three data ranges are 3
plotted on same char. The data ranges to be plotted are
data=[[5, 25, 45, 20], [8,13,29,27], [9,29, 27,39]]

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 Note the following point when writing the code :
(a) Three line should be of three different color .
(b) Display the legend
Or
Create horizontal bar graph with following data
obj = ['python', 'c++', 'java', 'Perl', 'lisp']
performance=[10, 8, 6, 2, 1]
Note the following point when writing the code :
(a) Title of graph is “Programming language”
(b) The color of bar graph is red.

Q37 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.
Display the total price of all toys
Part-III
Q38 Observe the following dataframe and answer the following questions : 5

Elephant Tiger Deer Bear Rhino Fox

Assam 25 35 115 75 12 125
UP 65 65 56 52 118 29
Odisha 75 45 96 46 145 86
Haryana 125 47 85 96 74 94
Jharkhand 52 85 62 158 56 88
Nagaland 85 98 45 244 46 97
Manipur 110 120 79 95 75 56
Sikkim 25 68 78 63 88 26
(i) Display Deer, Bear, and Rhino between states Haryana to Sikkim.
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 (ii) Display the elephant state wise.
(iii) Display which state has number of elephant more than 100.
(iv) Write the code to create the above dataframe using dictionary and
sequence of column will same as shown in above dataframe.

Q39 Write the output of following SQL Command 5

(a) SELECT MID(‘INFORMATION’, 2, 3)

(b) SELECT INSTR(‘UNICODE’,’CO’);
(c) SELECT RIGHT(‘INFORMATICS’, 3)
(d) SELECT DAYOFMONTH(‘2009-08-25’)
(e) SELECT TRUNCATE(5.3456,1)
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 25-07-985
E07 ReemaSaxena 55000 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
Q40 Knowledge Supplement Organization has set up its new center at Mangalore 5

for its office and web based activities. It has four buildings as shown in the
diagram below :
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 Alpha Gamma

Beta
Lambda

Center to Center Distances between various buildings :

Alpha to Beta 50m
Number of Computer
Beta to Gamma 150m
Alpha 25
Gamma to Lambda 25m
Beta 50
Alpha to Lambda 170m
Gamma 125
Beta to Lambda 125m
Lambda 10
Alpha to Gamma 90m

(a) Suggest a cable layout of connections between the buildings.

(b) Suggest the most suitable place to house the server of this
organization with a suitable reason.
(c) Suggest the placement of the following devices with justification :
(i) Repeater (ii) Hub/Switch
(d) The Organization is planning to link its sale counter suitable in
various parts of the same city, which type of network out of
LAN,MAN or WAN will be formed ? Justify your answer?
(e) The Organization is planning to link its head office situated in Delhi
with the offices at Srinagar. Suggest an economic way to connect it;
the company is ready to compromise on the speed of connectivity.
Justify your answer.

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