CBSE Sample Papers for Class 10 Computer Applications Set 9 with Solutions

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CBSE Sample Papers for Class 10 Computer Applications Set 9 with Solutions

Time Allowed: 2 hours
Maximum Marks: 50

General Instructions:

This Question Paper has 5 Sections A-E.
All Questions are compulsory. However, internal choices have been provided in some of the questions.
Section A has 12 questions carrying 01 mark each.
Section B has 7 Short Answer (SA-I) type questions carrying 02 marks each.
Section C has 4 Short Answer (SA-II) type questions carrying 03 marks each.
Section D has 1 Long Answer (LA) type question carrying 04 marks.
Section E has 2 Source based /Case-based /Passage based Questions carrying 04 marks each.

SECTION – A (12 Marks)
(All questions are compulsory)

Question 1.
…………. protocol is used for email communication. [1]
(a) HTTP
(b) IP
(c) POP
(d) SMTP and POP
Answer:
(d) SMTP and POP

Explanation: SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) is responsible to send and distribute outgoing emails whereas POP (Post Office Protocol) receives incoming emails

Question 2.
Garvit wants to send an e-mail to his manager. Which of the following is required to send an e-mail? [1]
(a) IP address
(b) E-mail id
(c) Domain name
(d) All of these
Answer:
(b) E-mail id

Question 3.
Amita is using Ask to search information on India’s moon missions. Her friend Nisha suggests her to use Google instead. Amita knows that both these work using the same techniques of: [1]
(a) Indexing
(b) crawling
(c) ranking
(d) All of these
Answer:
(d) All of these

Explanation: All search engines provide answers to users’ queries using three fundamental principles of crawling, indexing and ranking.

Crawlers are the programs that look for the required web pages by following links to already known pages. These web pages are than indexed by the indexing process to create a list of available web pages. These indexed pages are now sorted to return the required result. This process is known as ranking.

Question 4.
………… is the first page on a website that allows you to navigate to other pages via menu system or links. [1]
(a) First page
(b) Primary page
(c) Front page
(d) Home page
Answer:
(d) Home Page

Question 5.
Consider the following code:
<body bgcolor= “red” text= “white”>
(a) The web page’s background will appear in red and text will appear in white colour.
(b) The background of a paragraph will appear in red and text will appear in white colour.
(c) The heading text will appear in red and paragraph text will appear in white colour.
(d) The background of the webpage will appear in white and text will appear in red colour. [1]
Answer:
(a) The web page’s background will appear in red and text will appear in white colour.

Explanation: The attribute BGCOLOR defines the colour of the background and TEXT attribute defines the colour of the text of the webpage.

Question 6.
<body>….</body> is a ……….. type of element. [1]
(a) Formatting
(b) Structural
(c) Empty
(d) None of above
Answer:
(b) Structural

Explanation:
Structural tags in HTML are used to create the basic strucutre of a web page.

Question 7.
To make the bullet style as square in an unordered list the ………. attribute is given.
(a) TYPE = “square”
(b) START = “square”
(c) BULLET = “square”
(d) MARK = “square” [1]
Answer:
(a) TYPE = “square”

Explanation: The TYPE attribute of <UL> tag specifies the bullet style. The values for TYPE attribute are: square, disc and circle.

Question 8.
Mamta opened the HTML file of a web page and found that the web page was written using <dl>, <dt> and <dd> tags. She is wondering why these tags are used in a web page.
(a) to define a table
(b) to define a diagram
(c) To display a chart
(d) to give a definition list [1]
Answer:
(d) to give a definition list.

Explanation: A definition list is described using <dl> tag.

A definition list element has two parts

a definition term and
a definition description.

Question 9.
Siddhant wants to write H₂O in his web page. The tag he will use is: [1]
(a) <sup>
(b) <sub>
(c) <lower>
(d) None of these
Answer:
(b) <sub>

Explanation:
2 in H₂O is subscript, the subscript tag in HTML is <sub>.

<sub> tag in HTML is used for subscript and <sup> is superscript. Both these are container tags and the text between the opening and closing tags will appear a little below or above the normal text.

Question 10.
The below given statements hold true for ………… [1]
(I) No restriction on the re-distribution of the software as a whole or in part.
(II) the integrity of the author’s source code should be maintained.
(III) the license must not discriminate against any person or group of persons.
(IV) none of these
(a) Proprietary software
(b) FOSS
(c) Shareware
(d) Open Source Software
Answer:
(d) Open Source Software

Explanation: Open source not only gives access to the source code but also complies some terms of distribution. Apart from the above mentioned criteria it also allows modifications of derived works and their distribution under the same terms of license. It also places no discrimination against use in any field of endeavor.

Question No. 11 and 12 are Assertion and Reason types. Each question consists of two statements, namely, Assertion (A) and Reason (R). Select the most suitable option considering the Assertion and Reason.

Question 11.
Assertion (A): Social networking makes conducting discussions and collecting opinions a tedious task.
Reason (R): A social networking site is a website that provides a venue for people to share their activities and interests. [1]
(a) Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true and Reason (R) is a correct explanation of Assertion (A).
(b) Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true and Reason (R) is not a correct explanation of Assertion (A).
(c) Assertion (A) is true and Reason (R) is false.
(d) Assertion (A) is false and Reason (R) is true.
Answer:
(d) Assertion (A) is false and Reason (R) is true.

Explanation: Using social media platforms conducting discussions and collecting opinions has become very easy as the topic can be posted on the social media and comments and opinions from people can be invited.

Question 12.
Assertion (A): An external style sheet can be linked to as many pages as we want.
Reason (R): The external style sheet is defined in a file with .css extension and liked to a web page using link tag. [1]
(a) Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true and Reason (R) is a correct explanation of Assertion (A).
(b) Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true and Reason (R) is not a correct explanation of Assertion (A).
(c) Assertion (A) is true and Reason (R) is false.
(d) Assertion (A) is false and Reason (R) is true.
Answer:

(a) Both assertion (A) and reason (R) are true and reason (R) is the correct explanation of assertion(A).

Explanation: An external style sheet is an ordinary text file saved with the extension .css and contains all the style information just as in an internal style sheet.

The <link> tag links the HTML page to a document whose relation to it is of type style sheet.

SECTION – B (14 Marks)
(2 marks each)

Question 13.
Anubhav needs to send a message informing his colleagues about the next day’s meeting’s agenda, venue, time and few other details without using any of the social media platforms or e-mail. Which service should he use? He is unable to send it as a single message. What could be the probable reason? [2]
Answer:
He should use the SMS. His message must be of more than 160 characters as the messages longer than 160 characters can’t be sent as a single message and are split into parts.

Question 14.
What is a web portal?
Answer:
A web portal is a specially designed webpage that provides information from various sources on one platform. It is a personalised and categorised library that helps in search, navigation, personalisation, notifications and information integration.

Explanation:
A web portal is a type of website but it differs in content and services from a typical website. A website provides only specialized information and links to sites about other related information where as a web portal is linked to many other websites that provide the web services like email, gaming etc. It is a gateway for using the offered web services.

Write one advantage and one disadvantage of e-shopping. [2]
Answer:
An advantage and a disadvantage of e-shopping is as follows:

(1) Advantage: Online stores are equally accessible from metro cities, non metro cities, remote areas, which is not the case with brick and mortar stores. Thus, a person can shop online from anywhere in the world and anywhere the online store can deliver.

(2) Disadvantage: Some people like the idea of physically going to a store and experiencing the shopping process. They like to touch the merchandise, try on the clothing, and be around other people. Online shopping doesn’t permit shoppers to touch products or have any sort of social interaction.

Question 15.
What advantages does 4G technology has over 3G? Write any two. [2]
Answer:

Using 4G, browsing web is faster and more reliable as compared to 3G.
Download and upload speed is also better in 4G technology.

Question 16.
What are the features of intellectual property rights?
Answer:
Following are the features of intellectual property rights:

It encourages people to create new softwares as well as help them to improve the existing applications.
An environment is provided for the innovative thoughts and technologies.
Provides a surety of return so people and businesses invest in the national economy.

What is proprietary software licence? Name two types of proprietary software licence. [2]
Answer:
The software whose one or more copies can be used by the user under the End User Licence Agreement(EULA). The ownership of the software still remains with the software publisher is called the proprietary software.

The two types of proprietary software license are perpetual and annual.

Question 17.
Write the purpose of name and href attributes of <a> tag. [2]
Answer:
The name tag attribute defines the name of a section or segment in the same document. For example:
<A NAME = <Segmentl> Segment 1 </A> and the “href” attribute defines the URL of the target segment or location or page for example:-

<A href =#segmentl> Link to Segment 1</A>
<A href = “http://www.agarwalgroup.com’’>
Books </A>.

Here first statement creates an internal link, wheras second creates an external link.

Question 18.
The following code is written to align the image at centre in the browser’s window. However, the desired result is not achieved. Mention the reason for the same.
<img src = “image.jpg” align =“center”>
Answer:
The reason for not getting the desired result is that “Centre” is not a value of the align attribute in the <img> tag.

Explanation: The align attribute in <IMG> tag is used for inline HTML image alignments. The valid attribute values are: Left, right, top, middle and bottom

The <IMG> tag in HTML is used to insert images. Its source is specified using src attribute, alternate text with alt attribute, alignment with align attribute and size with height and width attributes.

Match the following HTML tags/ attribute with their use.

(A) frame	(I) to change the position of the table in a web page
(B) align	(II) Hypertext Reference
(C) height	(III) it specifies which part of the table’s border
(D) href	(IV) specifies the height of an image

[2]
Answer:
(a)
A – (III),
B – (I),
C – (IV),
D – (II)

Explanation: frame attribute is used with border attribute in the <table> tag align attribute of the <table > tag specifies the position of the table as left, right or center. Default value is left. The height attribute used with <img> tag specifies the height of the inserted image, href attribute is used to specify the URL of the target document.

Question 19.
Write the suitable HTML statement to:
(A) insert a solid black horizontal rule
(B) to show a paragraph justified on the web page [2]
Answer:
(A) <hr noshade>
(B) <p align =”justify”> …</p>

SECTION – C (12 Marks)
(3 marks each)

Question 20.
Tishya is designing web site for a beauty products company. She wants to display the image “logo.jpg” on all the pages of the site without repeating the image. Also she wants all the hi level headings to be in pink colour with yellow background, and all the h2 level headings bordered with blue colour and 3px thick. How can she implement these styles on all the pages of the website. Write the HTML code for all the formattings. [3]
Answer:
She should use external CSS style sheet.
The code for the CSS file will be

Body{background-image url(“logo.jpg’’);
background -repeat:no repeat;}
H1 {color:pink;background color:yellow;}
H2 {border:3px solid blue;}

Question 21.
Tanula wants to show a video named birthday.mp4 on her web page in height 200 and width 400-pixel area. She also wants that the image cake.jpg be shown as a thumbnail for the video. Help her by writing the required HTML code [3]
Answer:
The video can be embedded using the video tag as follows

<video width = “400" height="200" poster =”cake.jpg” controls>
<source src= “birthday.mp4" type=”video/mp4">
</video>

Question 22.
Observe the following web page and write the HTML code to generate it.

National e-Governance Plan

The National e-Governance Plan of Indian Government seeks to lay the foundation and provide the impetus for long-term growth of e-Governance within the country.

Visit National e-Governance plan to know more about

1. Central MMP’s

2. Implementation

3. Components

For enquiries Mail to Us

Note:

Link color is black and the visited link color is green.
Email Id for the bottom message is ‘abc@xyz.com’.
Title of the webpage is “Plan”.

Answer:
The code is:

<html>
<head>
<title> Plan </title>
</head>
<body>
<h2 align = “center”> National e-Governance Plan </h2>
<hr>
The National e-Governance Plan of Indian Government seeks to lay the foundation and provide the impetus for long - term growth of e-Governance within the country.
<p>
<b> Visit <a href = “nation .html”> National e-Governance Plan </a> to know more about: </b>
<ol type = "1">
<li> Central MMP’s = </li>
<li> Implementation</li>
<li>Components </li>
</ol>
<hr>
<font size = “2’>
<center>
for enquiries <a href = “abc@xyz.com”>Mail to Us </A>
</center>
</body>
</html>

Consider the following webpage and write an HTML code to generate it.

Useful Links

Online shopping with Amazon
Order your food on Zomoto
Send gifts Ferns n Petals
Book your movie ticket Book My Show

Answer:

<html>
<body>
<hl> Useful Links</hl>
<ul>
<li>Online shopping with <a href=”http://www.amazon.in”>Amazon</ax/li>
<li>Order yourfood on <a href=“http://www.zomato.com”> Zomato</a>/li>
<li>Send gifts <a href=”http:// www.fnp.com">Ferns n Petals </ax/li>
<li>Book your movie ticket <a href=”http://www.bookmy show.com”>Book My Show</ ax/li>
</ul>
</body>
</html>

Question 23.
How are freedom of information and digital divide related?
Answer:
Freedom of information refers to the right of a person to decide the amount of information to be shared and to have access to the information on public platforms. Freedom of information is greatly hampered due to digital divide as having less or no access to the digital technology devoids, a person from exercising this right.

Section – D (8 Marks)
(4 Marks each)

Question 24.
Shikha is a career counselor in an academic institution. She wants to create the following form for institute’s website, to collect student’s information. Write the code to create the form.
CBSE Sample Papers for Class 10 Computer Applications Set 9 with Solutions 2
Answer:

<html>
<body>
<hl> Admission Form</hl>
<form>
Name : <input type = text name = "name”>
<br>
Address : <textarea name = “address” rows = 3 cols = 15></textarea>
<br>
Gender : <input type = radio name = "gen” value = "m”> MALE
<input type = radio name = “gen” value = "f”> FEMALE
<br>
<input type = "Submit’’>
</body>
</html>

Observe the web page given below. Write the suitable HTML code to design it. [1]
CBSE Sample Papers for Class 10 Computer Applications Set 9 with Solutions 3
Answer:

<html>
<body>
<hl> THE TABLE</hl>
<table border =1 >
<tr>
<td align="left” width = 100> 1</td>
<td width = 100 rowspan = 2 valign =”top”> 2</td>
<td width = 100> 3</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> 4</td>
<td>6</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> 7</td>
<td> 8</td>
<td> 9</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

SECTION – E (8 Marks)
(4 marks each)

Question 25.
Case Study 1
(A) Mr. kapoor has switched to e-mail in place of the traditional mails. But he is still apprehensive about its usefulness.
(B) He wants to know at least one advantage of e-mail over traditional mail.
(C) Mr. Kapoor got to know that the communication over Internet is governed by Protocols. Which protocol is used to send and receive e-mails?
(D) Mr. Kapoor is about to write his first mail. He wants to know the difference between cc and bcc?
Answer:
(A) the part after @ in a Networking email address represents the mail server.
(B) e-mail is delivered almost instantly to the recipient anywhere in the world while traditional mail may take days to be delivered depending upon the physical distance between the sender and the receiver.
(C) SMTP is used to send mail and POP is used to fetch mail from the server to the client system.
(D) In cc field the address of all the desired recipients other than the main recipient are specified. All the recipients will know to whom else the mail has been sent. While in bcc none of the recipients will know to who else the mail has been sent.

Question 26.
Case Study 2
Radha wants to prepare for UPSC exams but she does not have access to the proper information about it but her brother has the complete information. In light of this statement answer the following questions.
(A) Radha feels this is denial of one of her rights. Which right is it?
(B) What is the reason for this kind of difference between Radha and her brother?
(C) How can this gap between radha and her brother eliminated?
(D) Name the act instilled by the GOI to give the right mentioned in a) to its citizens.
Answer:
(A) Freedom of Information
(B) The reason for this is gender divide.
(C) This gap can be eliminated by giving equal access of technology to both the genders.
(D) Freedom of Information act 2005

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