SAMPLE PAPER

INFORMATICS PRACTICES
CLASS XII
SET-II

Time allowed: 3 hours Maximum Marks: 70

Note: (i) This question paper is divided into 3 sections

(ii) Section A consists of 30 Marks.
(iii) Section B and Section C are of 20 marks.
(iv) Answer the questions after carefully reading the text.

SECTION-A

1. Answer the following questions :a.Expand the following:-

(i) GNU
FLOSS1b.Which server is used for obtains IP address using a URL of a website.
1c.Write one advantage and one disadvantage of Star topology in network.2d.Write the
difference between free software and freeware.2e.ABC Corporation has set up its new
center at Delhi for its office and web
based activities. It has 4 blocks of buildings as shown in the diagram
below:
 Block A Block B

Block C Block D

Center to center distances between various blocks

Black A to Block B 50 m
Block B to Block C 150 m
Block C to Block D 25 m
Block A to Block D 170 m
Block B to Block D 125 m
Block A to Block C 90 m
Number of Computers
Black A 25
Block B 50
Block C 125
Block D 10
i) Suggest a cable layout of connections between the blocks.
ii) Suggest the most suitable place (i.e. block) to house the server of this organization
with a suitable reason.
iii) Suggest the placement of the following devices with justification
(a) Repeater
(b) Hub/Switch
iv) The organization is planning to link its front office situated in the city in a hilly
region where cable connection is not feasible, suggest an economic way to
connect it with reasonably high speed?

42.Answer the following questions :a.Differentiate between call by value & call by
reference with suitable examples in reference to Method.
2b.What do you understand by access specifier in class derivations? What are
these modes? 2c.What is the difference between container tags and empty tags in
HTML?2d.Name two commonly used drivers used for database connectivity from java
application?2e.What is XML? Write some feature of XML.23.Answer the following
questions :a.Define the following terms in respect of Relational database management
System:
Primary Key.
Referential Integrity.2b.What is the significance of GROUP by clause in SQL query?
2c.Differentiate between DDL and DML command of SQL.2d.Write the resulting output
of the following:
SELECT MONTH_BETWEEN(’12-DEC-98’,’25-JUN-98’) FROM DUAL;
SELECT LENGTH(‘AMIT SHARMA’),SUBSTR(‘AMIT SHARMA’,-5,4) FROM
DUAL;
2e.what are different type of SQL functions?
2SECTION-B4.a Given this fragment

Class X{
Private int count;
Is the following fragment correct? Clarify your answer.
Class Y{
Public static void main(String args[ ] ){
X ob=new X( );
Ob.count=10;
}
}
2bWrite Java Method which takes a number as argument and return the sum of
that number. (Exam. If argument is 254 then method return 2+5+4=11)4cDefine a class
Student with the following specifications:
private members:
admno integer
sname String
eng,math,science double
total double

public member:
(i). parameterized constructor that initialize all the data member of class as values given
by the user.
(ii) showdata( ) method to display all the data member of the class Student on the screen.

Create object of class Student in main method and call showdata( ) method of the class.

45.Answer the following questions :a.Write the output of the following code if program
start from main method: -
Class Student{
public Student(){
calculate( );
System.out.println(“Constructor”);
}
void calculate( ) {
display( );
display( );
System.out.println(“Calculating”);
}
void display( ){
System.out.println(“Displaying”);
}}
Class MAIN{
Public static void main(String args[]){
Student s=new Student( );
}
}
2b.Find the errors from the following code segment and rewrite the corrected code
underlining the correction made.
int a ,b;
c = a + b;
for(;i<=5;i++)
{
Display c;
c=c+1
]2c.Rewrite the following code using do-while loop.
for(int j=1;j<=10;j++){
System.out.println(“#”);
}
System.out.println();

2d.Design a JAVA application in which marks obtained and total marks of student are
entered in the Textfield and upon clicking at the button, the percentage of marks and
corresponding division should be display in the labels.
Marks% Division
>=60 First Division
45-59 Second Division
33-44 Third Division
<33 FAIL4
SECTION-C6.Write the SQL query commands based on following tables:
Table : Book
Book_id
Book name
Author_name
Publisher
Price
Type
Quantity

C0001
Fast Cook
Lata Kapoor
EPB
355
Cookery
5

F0001
The Tears
William Hopkins
First Publi.
650
Fiction
20

T0001
My First c++
Brain & Brooke
FPB
350
Text
10

T0002
C++ Brain works
A.W. Rossaine
TDH
350
Text
15

F0002
Thunderbolts
Anna Roberts
First Publ.
750
Fiction
50

Table : issued
Book_Id
Quantity Issued

T0001
4

C0001
5

F0001
2

Write SQL query for (a) to (f)

To show book name, Author name and price of books of First Pub. Publisher
To list the names from books of text type
To Display the names and price from books in ascending order of their prices.
To increase the price of all books of EPB publishers by 50.
To display the Book_Id, Book_name and quantity issued for all books which have been
issued
To insert a new row in the table issued having the following data. ‘F0003’, 1
Give the output of the following
Select Count(*) from Books
Select Max(Price) from books where quantity >=15
Select book_name, author_name from books where publishers=’first publ.’
Select count(distinct publishers) from books where Price>=400

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17.(i)Write a SQL command for creating a table student who structure is given below
Field name
Datatype
Size
constraint

Rno
Number
3
Part of primary key
Class
Varchar2
5
Part of primary key

Percentage
Number
5,2
>0 and <=100

(ii) Write a command for adding a field remarks to the above created table whose data
type is varchar2 and size is 40 with not null constraint.
(iii)Write a command for creating view student1 on the student table which contain those
student records who got 75 and above percentage.
(iv) Write command for giving select and update privileges on the above table to the
demo user with grant option.
(v) Write command for removing view student1 from the database.

(vi)Write the result of the follwoting queries:

a) SELECT ROUND(150.79, -2) from DUAL
b) SELECT LTRIM(‘NATASHA’, ‘NAT’) from DUAL
c) SELECT ADD_MONTHS(’30-DEC-2007’, 2) FROM DUAL
d) SELECT NEXT_DAY(SYSDATE, 'MONDAY') FROM DUAL
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