Students must start practicing the questions from CBSE Sample Papers for Class 10 Computer Applications with Solutions Set 10 are designed as per the revised syllabus.
CBSE Sample Papers for Class 10 Computer Applications Set 10 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.
An agreement on how communicating devices will communicate is called ………… [1]
(a) Protocol
(b) Topology
(c) Network architecture
(d) License
Answer:
(a) Protocol
Explanation: Protocols define the set of rules that govern the communication between two computers connected to a network.
Question 2.
Usenet is used for online discussions through posts about various topics. It is known as: [1]
(a) Chat
(b) E mail
(c) Newsgroup
(d) E discussion
Answer:
(c) Newsgroup
Caution
Chat rooms and forums are both methods to communicate with other people over the Internet. Whereas chat rooms allow communication with people in real time, newsgroups or forums are more suited for discussions where not all participants have to be online at the same time.
Question 3.
Google and Bing are the most popular search engines. Which of the following statements are true about search engines? [1]
(a) Search engines distinguish between appropriate and in appropriate sites
(b) Search engines have fixed hours of use
(c) Search engines do not provide relevant information.
(d) Search engine is a program designed to search for information on the Web using keywords.
Answer:
(d) Search engine is a program designed to search for information on the Web using keywords.
Question 4.
The characters following ‘@’ character represent ………. in an email address: [1]
(a) User name
(b) E-mail recipient name
(c) Domain name
(d) None of these
Answer:
(c) Domain name
Explanation: An email address has two
parts separated by ‘@’ symbol. On the left side of the @ separator is username and at the right of @ identifies the domain name for the host server. It is also called the email server.
Question 5.
What is the output of the following code? ab<sup>2</sup> [1]
(a) ab
(b) ab2
(c) a2b
(d) a2b
Answer:
(b) ab2
Explanation: The tag <SUP> specifies the text as superscript which appears slightly above the normal line of the text.
Question 6.
Consider the following code snippet:
<body bgcolor =” blue” text =” yellow”>
<font face=garamond size=15>
Welcome to the world of HTML
</font>
</body>
……….. tag is responsible for text formatting. [1]
(a) Text
(b) Body
(c) Font
(d) All of these
Answer:
(c) Font
Explanation: The <FONTx/FONT> tag lets you set the size, colour, and style of the text on webpage.
Question 7.
The character ‘/’ is used to ………….. [1]
(a) Start a tag
(b) End a tag
(c) Define an attribute
(d) Enclose an element
Answer:
(b) End a tag
Explanation: The container tag in HTML has a starting and an ending tag. The / symbol is used with closing or ending tag.
Question 8.
The tag used to display a picture in web page: [1]
(a) <image>
(b) <IMG>
(c) <Source>
(d) <SRC>
Answer:
(b) <IMG>
Explanation:
SRC attribute in <IMG> tag specifies the path of the image to be displayed in webpage.
Question 9.
Arnav is designing a web page for a readymade retail store ‘GenX’. He wants that the name of the store should be displayed in the title bar of the web page. The tag he should use is: [1]
(a) <t> </t>
(b) <head> </head>
(c) <title> </title>
(d) <<title bar> </title bar>
Answer:
(c) <title>/title>
Explanation: The text enclosed within the <title> </title> is displayed in the title bar of the web page window.
<title> is a structural tag. It is included within the <head> tag. The structural tags are used to define the structure of an HTML document.
Question 10.
………. is a free and Open Source Software. [1]
(a) GNU
(b) W3C
(c) OSI
(d) FLOSS
Answer:
(d) FLOSS
Explanation: FLOSS is free Libre and Open Source Software.
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): The Query, When Did India begin its Chandrayaan Mission? Will give numerous results most of which are useless.
Reason (R): The search engine searches for each word of the query separately if the query is not enclosed in quotes. [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: To search effectively for desired information the query must be properly framed.
Question 12.
Assertion (A): If all the three types of style sheets ie. Internal, inline and external are used in one page, they are used in their natural way.
Reason (R): The user needs to tell the browser explicitly which style sheet to apply where. [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:
(c) Assertion (A) is true but Reason (R) is false.
Explanation: When. using more than one type of style sheet in a page the browser itself decides which style sheet to apply as per the cascading order.
The inline has the highest precedence, then internal and last is the external.
SECTION – B (14 Marks)
(2 Marks each)
Question 13.
Krishna’s mother is on duty in a difficult terrain with no internet connectivity. He wants to send her the video of his dance performance in school function. How can this be possible? What is the requirement to do so? [2]
Answer:
The video can be sent using MMS. To send or receive an MMS a multimedia enabled mobile device is required.
Explanation: MMS or Multimedia Messaging Service is the standard way to send multimedia content to and from mobile devices.
Question 14.
What are the categories in which e-banking is divided?
OR
Write one advantage and one disadvantage of the news group. [2]
Answer:
e-banking can be broadly categorised into two types, which are as follows:
- Transactional e-banking: It involves performing financial transactions.
- Non-Transactional e-banking: It involves viewing bank statements.
OR
An advantage and a disadvantage of a news group is as follows:
- Advantage: News groups are similar in some ways to mailing lists, but they tend to have a better structure, which makes it more likely that they will be around for much longer than a mailing list.
- Disadvantage: It is not as quick as an e-mail. Very often there will be a delay of at least a day, sometimes longer, before a response appears.
Question 15.
Anuj has gone on an excrusion with his friends. He is unable to connect at 4G speeds. What could be the probable reasons for this? [2]
Answer:
Either Anuj has an old phone which cannot use the full power of the 4G or the place to which he has gone is not having the 4G network.
Explanation: The speed that a user gets on his mobile device depends on his device and the technology coverage of that area.
Question 16.
What are the guidelines that one should follow in order to avoid plagiarism?
OR
What are annual and perpetual proprietary software licence? [2]
Answer:
Following are some of the guidelines that one should follow in order to avoid plagiarism:
- Instead of copying the language of the book as it is, try to put it in your own words.
- One should have a clear understanding about plagiarism and its consequences so that no one may perform it unintentionally.
- If copying someone else’s work, word to word is necessary, then do not forget to enclose it within quotes and also mention its source.
- Another way is to credit the author who has written the information that you require and personally not taking any credit for it (Any two)
OR
Annual proprietary software license can not be renewed after an year. A new license has to be purchase every year.
Perpetual proprietary software license charge one year maintenance after which the renewal is discounted.
Question 17.
State any two methods of opening a HTML document through your browser. [2]
Answer:
Either of these methods can be used to open an HTML document in a browser:
- Open Windows Explorer. Now navigate through the files and click on the HTML document you want to view. Right click on it and from the pop-up menu that appears click “open with” and select your web browser.
- You may open any web browser and use the keyboard combination Ctrl+O to open Open dialogue box. Select the relevant document.
Question 18.
‘Happy Journey’ is a travel agency. The website of the agency displays tour packages in a table. The website developer has used COLSPAN and ROWSPAN attributes in his code. What is the difference between both the attributes? [2]
OR
Match the following HTML tags with their attributes.
(A) <p> | (I) noshade |
(B) <hr> | (II) face |
(C) <font> | (III) align |
(D) <tr> | (IV) colspan |
Answer:
The differences between COLSPAN and ROWSPAN are as follows:
COLSPAN | ROWSPAN |
It merges two or more Cells in a row into a single Cell horizontally. | It merges two or more Cells in the same column as a single Cell vertically |
COLSPAN attribute defines the number of columns a cell should span or merge. | ROWSPAN attribute specifies the number of rows a cell should span. |
Explanation:
CELLSPACING attribute is used to specify the space between cells in a table i.e., the distance between two cells. Cell padding defines space between cell walls.
OR
A – (III),
B – (I),
C – (II),
D – (IV)
Explanation: Align attribute of <p> tag sets the alignment of the papragraph. Noshade attribute of <hr> tag draws a solid black line.
Face attribute of the <font > tag specifies the font for the following text. Colspan attribute of <tr> tag merges two or more columns of a row into one.
Question 19.
Shradha is writing a code to create internal hyperlink. What is given with ‘href’ attribute in internal hyperlink? [2]
Answer:
The href attribute contains the location name where the link, upon clicking, will redirect.
The location is given a name followed by # for reference at the time of creating link.
Explanation: The “href” attribute contains the Location name where the link will navigate us when we click on the hyperlink. The ‘Name’ attribute of tag establishes the Link to the content within the document
SECTION – C (12 Marks)
(3 marks each)
Question 20.
Abhay is a web designer for a grocery super store. He has to design pages on daily basis updating the available goods and updated prices. He needs to create table for this. To keep consistency in appearance of the tables across the website and on all days he decides the following formatting for the tables.
(I) All the text in blue color and center aligned
(II) Background colour to be yellow
(III) Table border to be 2px dashed and brown in color
How will Abhay able to do this? How can he get the same style for all the pages? Write the code for all the required formattings. [3]
Answer:
Abhay can achieve this by using the external style sheet This external style sheet can be linked to each web page by using the link tag in the head section of each page.
The code for the CSS file will be:
Table{ color:blue; background-color:yellow;
border:2px dashed brown;}
Td{ text-align : center;}
Question 21.
Neelam wants to add an audio to her webpage. The audio file is named “bhajans.mp3”. The alternative file, in case a browser doesn’t support this, is named “bhajans.ogg”. Help her by writing the code. Also keep in mind that the audio should keep on playing until the user stops it using controls. [3]
Answer:
To embed audio <audio> tag is used.
<audio controls> <source src =”bhajans.mp3” type =”audio/ mpeg"> <source src =”bhajans.ogg” type =”audio/ogg”> </audio>
Question 22.
Anubhuti is designing a web page that displays a menu of a restaurant. The menu dispalys images of all the food items. On clicking the image of an item its description is made available to the visitor on the same page. She is unable to write the code. Help her by writing the code for just one image with file name “Pasta.jpg” and description as follows:
“An Italian dish made with Indian flavours”
OR
Suman has to create the following list through HTML as a part of her social science project. Help her in writing the HTML code for the same. [3]
Answer:
<a href = #pasta><img src =”pasta.jpg”> </a> <a name =pasta> “An italian dish made with indian flavours”</a>
OR
Code:
<html> <head> <title>countries</title> </head> <body>
ASIAN COUNTRIES AND THEIR CAPITALS
<ol type=“l"> <li>INDIA</li> <ul type=“circle”> <li>New Delhi</li> </ul> <li>PAKISTANT</li> <ul type=“circle”> <li>Islamabad</li> </ul> <li>THAILAND</li> <ul type=“circle”> <li>Bangkok</li> </ul> </ol> </body> </html>
Question 23.
Define digital divide. Give one reason for digital divide. [3]
Answer:
A digital divide is economic and social inequality with rigid access, use and impact of information and communication technologies.
Explanation:
Other major reasons of this digital divide are:
- Reason for digital divide is lack of technology reach in many rural areas. Lesser rate of digital literacy in rural areas as compared to urban areas.
- Gender inequality prevelent in many parts of the country.
SECTION – D
(4 marks each)
Question 24. Shobhit is creating an online form for hotel booking. Observe the webpage and Help him to write the code. OR Write the HTML code to design the web page as shown below. Answer: <html> <body> <hl>Hotel Skyline</hl> <h2>Booking</h2> <form action = “” method = “post”> Name :<input type= “text” name=”Name”> <br> Address :<input type=“text” name=”Add”> <br> Type of Resident:<input type=”radio” name=”resi” value=”ind”>Indian <input type=“radio” name =”resi” value=”nri”>NRI <br> Type of Room: <select name= “room"> <option value= “ACS”> AC Single</option> <option value ="ACD”> AC Double</option> <option value =”NAS”> Non AC Single</option> <option value ="NAD”>Non AC Double</option> </select> <br> <input type = “submit” value =”Submit”> </form> </body> </html>
OR
<html> <body> <table border=2 cellspacing=3 <caption>Table title</caption> <thead> <tr> <td> colspan=4 align= center> Table Header </td> </tr> </thead> <tr align= center> <td> A</td> <td> 5B</td> <td> C</td> <td> D</td> </tr> <tr align= center> <td> a </td> <td> b </td> <td> c</td> <td> d</td> </tr> <tfoot> <tr> <td colspan=4> Table footer </td></tr></tfoot> </table> </body> </html>
SECTION – E (8 Marks)
(4 marks each)
Question 25.
Case Study 1
Lakshya wants to search some content on internet for his geography project. He typed a URL in the web browser to open the web site.
(A) Lakshya wants to download the information for his project. Help him understand what is downloading? [1]
(B) Lakshya uses web browser to work on internet. Define web browser. [1]
(C) Which type of software Lakshya will use to find information on internet? [1]
(D) Lakhya wants to search information on rivers of India excluding Ganga. Write the query for this search. [1]
Answer:
(A) Downloading is the process of saving web pages, images and files from a web server on users local host computer using internet
(B) A web browser or a browser is an application or software used to access and view websites.
Explanation:
Opera, Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge are examples of web browser.
(C) Search Engine.
Explanation: The websites used to search any type of information on internet are called search engines.
(D) India + River – Ganga
Explanation: In a search query + (plus symbol) is used to match options and a hyphen (or minus symbol) is used to exclude a word from search result.
Question 26.
Case Study 2
Anubhav is preparing his project report on environmental pollution. He has searched the net about the topic and found some good quotes and pictures. Help him by answering his queries given below.
(A) Writing the report in his own words is very tedious. What if he copies text from WWW and pastes it in his project? [1]
(B) Which right will Anubhav be violating here? [1]
(C) How can Anubhav avoid the situation in (a)? [1]
(D) Anubhav is unable to understand the purpose of instilling the right mentioned in (B). Explain him its one advantage.
Answer:
(A) Anubhav will be charged of Plagiarism.
(B) This is violation of Intellectual Property Right.
(C) Plagiarism can be avoided by giving proper credit to the creator of the original content.
(D) Intellectual Property rights provide exclusive rights to the creator or the inventor.