CBSE Class 12 Informatics Practices Question Paper 2014 - Set 2

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INFORMATICS PRACTICES

Instructions :

(i) All questions are compulsory.

(ii) Answer the questions after carefully reading the text.

1. (a) Why is a switch called an intelligent hub ? 1

(b) What was the objective behind developing UNICODE ? 1

(c) Expand the following terms : 1

(i) OSS

(ii) ODF

(d) What is the use of Repeater in a Network ?

(e) Identify the following device : 2

(i) A device that is used to connect different types of networks. It performs the necessary translation so that the connected networks can communicate properly.

(ii) A device that converts data from digital bit stream into an analog signal and vice versa.

(f) Write one advantage and one disadvantage of using Optical fibre cable. 2

(g) Distinguish between Open Source Software and Proprietary Software. 2

2. (a) Is a string containing a single character same as a char ? 1

(b) Write a statement in Java to declare a String type variable with a name City. 1

(c) Distinguish between ‘/ ’ and ‘ %’ operators. 1

(d) Which tag/attributes of HTML are used to 1

(i) Insert a picture in the web page.

(ii) Insert an empty line in the web page.

3. (a) Distinguish between ALTER TABLE and UPDATE commands of MySQL. 1

(b) Mention two categories in which MySQL commands are broadly classified. 1

(c) Give two characteristics of Primary Key. 1

(d) A table FUNFOOD has 13 rows and 17 columns. What is the cardinality and degree of this table ? 1

(e) A numeric column MONEY contains 34567.7896. Write a command to truncate MONEY 2

(i) Up to 2 decimal places. (i.e. expected result 34567.78)

(ii) Up to -3 places. (i.e. expected result 34000)

(f) What happens when ‘‘ROLLBACK’’ command is issued in a transaction process ? 2

(g) Shanya Khanna is using a table Employee. It has the following columns. 2

Admno,Name,Agg,Stream [column Agg contains Aggregate marks] She wants to display highest Agg obtained in each Stream.

She wrote the following statement : SELECT Stream, MAX(Agg) FROM Employee; But she did not get the desired result. Rewrite the above query with necessary changes to help her get the desired output.

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