Students must start practicing the questions from CBSE Sample Papers for Class 10 Computer Applications with Solutions Set 2 are designed as per the revised syllabus.
CBSE Sample Papers for Class 10 Computer Applications Set 2 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.
Suhani asks her colleague for her project work and then copies the entire work and submits it to her team leader claiming it to be her own work. The act performed by Suhani is known as …………… . [1]
(a) Phishing
(b) Plagiarism
(c) Spamming
(d) Virus
Answer:
(b) Plagiarism
Explanation: Presenting someone else’s ideas or work as our own without the owner’s consent is termed as Plagiarism.
Question 2.
Which of the following is the correct expansion of SMS? [1]
(a) Small Message Service
(b) Small Multimedia Service
(c) Short Multimedia Service
(d) Short Message Service
Answer:
(d) Short Message Service
Explanation: SMS stands for Short Message Service. It’ is a text messaging service used to send text messages of maximum length 160 characters from one mobile device to other.
Question 3.
Which of the following is an e-Shopping portal? [1]
(a) Diksha
(b) Swayam
(c) Flipkart
(d) NPTEL
Answer:
(c) Flipkart
Explanation: e-Shopping portals are websites that support e-commerce. Flipkart is one such portal which can be used to shop for consumer products.
Question 4.
Which of the following is not an e-Governance portal? [1]
(a) e-Aadhaar
(b) DigiLocker
(c) Sarathi
(d) Zomato
Answer:
(d) Zomato
Explanation: e-governance is the use of information and technology to provide government services electronically. E-Aadhaar is a service by government of India for password protected copy of Aadhaar. DigiLocker provides facility of downloading and storing softcopies of important documents such as mark sheets, certificates, Driving license etc. SARATHI is e-governance service where the data related to vehicle registration and driving license is compiled and made available.
Question 5.
The protocol that is used to send e-mails is …………… [1]
(a) HTTP
(b) POP
(c) SMTP
(d) FTP
Answer:
(c) SMTP
Explanation: SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) is a set of communication protocol that allows software to transmit an e-mail over internet using the e-mail addresses.
Question 6.
SFTP is used for: ………………… [1]
(a) Sending Files over the Internet in a secure manner
(b) Sending Mail over the Internet in a secure manner
(c) Video Conferencing
(d) Secure Chat Services
Answer:
(a) Sending Files over the internet in a secure manner
Explanation: SFTP (Secure File Transfer Protocol) is a protocol for accessing and transferring of computer files on a network using SSH(Secure Shell Protocol). Flere, the client must be authenticated by the server.
Question 7.
Which of the following is not an attribute of <img> tag in HTML? [1]
(a) source
(b) width
(c) alt
(d) color
Answer:
(d) color
Explanation: To specify the name or source of the image file, sre attribute is used in <img> tag.
Question 8.
HTML provides us with …………… levels of headings that can be inserted in a web page. [1]
(a) 5
(b) 6
(c) 7
(d) 8
Answer:
(b) 6
Explanation: The <H..> tag in HTML is used to incLude headings in our document. HTML has six levels of headings from <H1> to <H6>. <H1> is the highest level i.e., the largest heading and <H6> is the smallest heading.
Question 9.
Which of the following options is an INVALID attribute of <font> tag in HTML? [1]
(a) face
(b) width
(c) size
(d) color
Answer:
(b) width
Explanation: <font> tag in HTML is used to specify the style, size and color of the text. Syntax: <font face=”font name” size = value color = color_name/ color_code>……….</font>
Question 10.
The default starting value for an ordered list in HTML is ………………. [1]
(a) i
(b) 1
(c) a
(d) .
Answer:
(b) 1
Explanation: An ordered list in HTML is defined using <OL> tag. By default an ordered list begins with 1. The type of numbering can be changed using ‘type’ attribute and starting value of the list is specified using ‘start’ attribute.
Questions 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): MOOC helps geographically dispersed students to pursue any online course.
Reason (R): MOOC is a free web-based distance learning program.
(a) Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R) J are true and Reason (R) is the correct explanation of Assertion (A).
(b) Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true and Reason (R) is not the 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. [1]
Answer:
(a) Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true and Reason (R) is the correct explanation of Assertion (A).
Explanation: MOOC (Massive Online Open Courses) provides free online courses. Online courses can be pursued by anyone from anywhere. Hence, students from different parts of the world can access the courses of MOOC.
Question 12.
Assertion (A): <br> is a container tag.
Reason (R): HTML elements that have both opening and closing tags are considered container tags.
(a) Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true and Reason (R) is the correct explanation of Assertion (A).
(b) Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true and Reason (R) is not the 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. [1]
Answer:
(d) Assertion (A) is false and Reason (R) is true.
Explanation: <br> is an empty tag, so (A) is false. Empty tags do not have a closing tag and container tags have both opening and closing tags. So, (R) is true.
SECTION – B
(2 Marks each)
Question 13.
Write one difference between Chat and e-Mail service. [2]
Answer:
Difference between Chat and e-Mail service.
Chat | E-mail Service |
Chat is a real time exchange of textual messages between two or more users via computer or mobile devices. | An e-mail service is used to exchange textual messages between two or more users but the users need not be online at the same time. |
Question 14.
(A) What is e-Governance ? Write the names of any two services that can be provided using e-Governance.
OR
(B) What is Internet? How can we retrieve information from the Internet? [2]
Answer:
(A) e-Governance involves the use of Information and Communication Technology to provide government services to the citizens of a country.
Two services that can be provided using e-Governance are filing of income tax returns(lncome Tax Portal) and passport and VISA related services (consular Passport and VISA division).
OR
Internet is a global network of smaller interconnected networks. It is a Wide Area Network and uses some standard rules or protocols to connect the devices and help them communicate.
To retrieve information from the Internet, the device must be connected to the Internet and must have a web browser. In addition, the URL of the location of the piece of information we want to retrieve must be known.
Question 15.
How can we embed audio in an HTML document? Give an example to support your answer. [2]
Answer:
To embed audio in an HTML document <audio> tag or <embed> tag is used. This tag contains one or more <source> tags with different audio sources for the browser to select the first source it supports. The text between the <audio> and </audio> tag will be displayed only in those browsers that do not support the <audio> tag.
Example:
<html> <head> <title> audio in HTML </title> </head> <body > <audio controls> <source src=”music.ogg” type=”audio/ogg’’> <source src=”music.mp3” type="audio/mpeg’’> “your browser does not support the audio tag” </audio> </body> </html>
Question 16.
(A) Define Licensed Software. Write names of any two licensed software.
OR
(B) How can we reduce digital divide? Give any two points. [2]
Answer:
(A) Licensed software are the ones that have some terms and conditions associated with their use.
These are Proprietary software with a copyright and limitations of use.
Two Licensed software are MS- Windows and MS- Office.
OR
(B) Digital divide can be reduced by
(i) focusing on digital literacy in schools and higher classes.
(ii) Bringing the Information Technology within the reach of socially and economically deprived classes.
Question 17.
How is CSS beneficial for web page development? Give any two points. [2]
Answer:
- CSS brings consistency and uniformity in developing web pages for the same site or similar sites.
- It makes the updation of web pages easy as a global change can be applied by simply changing one style rule.
Question 18.
(A) Illustrate the use of the radio button input type on an HTML form with an appropriate code and the corresponding output.
OR
(B) Write the difference between <ol> and <ul> tags in HTML. Also write suitable examples of each to illustrate the difference. [2]
Answer:
<html> <head> <title> Radio buttons </title> </head> <body> <form> <H4><center>Choose the stream you want to study.</center></h4><hr > <input type ="radio" name= "choice" value="science”> SCIENCE <br> <input type ="radio" name="choice" value ="Humanities"> HUMANITIES <br> <input type = "radio” name="choice" value ="commerce"> COMMERCE <br> </form> </body> </html>
Output:
Choose the stream you want to study. |
|
|
|
OR
(B)
<OL> | <UL> |
(1)<OL> tag is used to define an ordered List in HTML. | <UL> tag defines an unordered list in HTML. |
(2) The type attribute can have values A, a, i, 1 and 1. | The type attribute can have values disc, square and circle. |
Question 19.
What is the difference between <br> tag and <p> tag in context of HTML?
Illustrate using suitable examples. [2]
Answer:
<br> tag in HTML is used to give a line break in HTML Whereas <p> tag is used to define a paragraph. The text between <p> and </p> tag is considered as single paragraph.
e.g.,
<html> <head> <title> Radio buttons </title> </head> <body> <p> Browser applications do not recognize returns, tabs or even more than one space between words, if you create an HTML document with multiple lines of text browser will dispaly it as a single line. </p> <p> Documents support four types of paragraph alignment viz. Left, Right, Center and Justify. To change the alignment of a paragraph, align attribute can be used. </p> </body> </html> In the above code, all the text between <python> and </python> tag is displayed in single line. To make the text to be displayed in multiple lines within a paragraph <br> tag is used as follows: <html> <head> <title> Radio buttons </title> </head> <body> <p> Browser applications do not recognize returns, tabs <br> or even more than one space between words.<br> if you create an HTML document with multiple lines<br> of text browser will dispaly it as a single line. </P> <p> Documents support four types of paragraph alignment <br> viz. Left, Right, Center and Justify. <br> To change the alignment of a paragraph, align attribute can be used. </P> </body> </html>
SECTION – C
(3 Marks)
Question 20.
How do Intellectual Property Rights provide protection to digital work?
Write any two ways to avoid plagiarism. [3]
Answer:
Intellectual Property Rights reserve all the rights to the owner to decide about the amount of information shared. These rights when applied to digital work restrict the use, copy and distribution of digital works.
Ways to avoid Plagiarism:
(i) Give credit to the creator if someone’s original or intellectual work is used.
(ii) Use quotation marks for someone’s actual spoken or written words.
Question 21.
Consider the following URLs: https://www.practicepayment.com …… URL1
http://www.practicepayment.com ………. URL2
(A) What is the difference between URL1 and URL2?
(B) Which of the two URLS will you prefer to use and why?
(C) Expand www. [3]
Answer:
(A) URL1 uses secure protocol HTTPS while URL2 uses HTTP protocol.
(B) We will prefer to use URL1 as it is a secure protocol that provides strong authentication.
(C) World Wide Web.
Question 22.
(A) Write the equivalent CSS code to set the following styles for a web page:
(i) Entire page background color should be yellow
(ii) Second level Heading properties should be as follows:
- Text color should be Red
- Left margin should be 25 px
OR
(B) (i) Write a CSS code to display the first level heading text as “My School” in Green color and center-aligned.
(ii) Write the CSS code to display the following paragraph below the above mentioned heading:
This is my School
I study in class 12
The properties of the paragraph content should be as follows:
(I) Text color should be yellow
(II) Font size should be 25 px
(III) Font style should be bold [3]
Answer:
(A) (i) body {background-color:”yellow”;}
(ii) h2 {color :”red”; Margin-left :25px;}
OR
(B) (i) <H1 Style = color:’’Green”;text-align:’’center”> My School </H1>
(ii) <P Style = color:”Yellow”; font- size:25px;font-weight.:bold> This is my school <br> I study in class 12 </p>
Question 23.
Write the full form of the following protocols:
(A) HTTPS
(B) TCP
(C) SSH [3]
Answer:
(A) Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure
(B) Transfer Control Protocol
(C) Secure Shell
SECTION – D
Question 24.
(A) Write the HTML code to design the web page as shown below, considering the specifications that follow. You can write the code for any four specifications out of the given six specifications.
Home Services
We are happy to provide you all help at your residence.
Special discount offers from (1st May, 2022 to 30th June, 2022).
Please contact us for the following services:
- Maid/Servant (Cleaning)
- Maid/Servant (Cooking)
- Driver
- Queries: [email protected]
Specifications:
- The background color of the page should be yellow and the text for the page should be in blue color.
- Heading ‘Home Services’ should be the first level of heading.
- The image named ‘service.png’ should be placed on the web page.
- Font size for the paragraph and the list of services should be 4 and Font face should be Verdana. Superscript tags should be used wherever required.
- The services (as shown in the above web page) should be written with the help of the unordered list.
- The bottom-most line of ‘Queries: [email protected]’ should be a link to open the user’s default mail client to send queries to the mentioned email id.
OR
(B)
Events
The following events are scheduled to be held on 1st April, 2023.
The timings are as follows:
1. 9.00 AM-10.00 AM Flag Hoisting
2. 10.00 AM-11.00 AM Painting Competition
3. 11.00 AM-12.30 PM Dance Competition
4.12.30 PM-1.30 PM Song competition
5.1.30 PM-2.00 PM Closing Ceremony
For any queries contact [email protected]
Phone: 9999999999
Write the HTML code to design the above shown web page titled ‘Events’, considering the specifications as given below. You can write the code for any four specifications out of the given six specifications.
Specifications:
- The background color of the page should be cyan, the font face for the page should be Arial.
- Heading ‘Events’ should be the first level of heading.
- Font size for the paragraph and the list of products should be 5.
- The schedule (as shown in the above web page) should be written with the help of the numbered list. Superscript tags should be used wherever required.
- The bottom-most lines of ‘For any queries …..’ and ‘Phone:…. should be in bold.
- The contact email [email protected]
should be a link to open the user’s default mail client to send queries to the mentioned email id. [3]
Answer:
(A)
<html> <head> <title> Q24(a) </title> </head> <body bgcolor = Yellow text=bLue > <h1> Home Services </hl> <img src = “service.png’’> <font face =’’Verdana” size =4> <p > We are happy to provide you all help at your residence. <br> Special discount offers from (1 <sup>st</sup> May, 2022 to 30<sup>th</sup> June,2022). <br> Please contact us for the following services: </P> <ul> <li> Maid/Servant (Cleaning)</li> <li> Maid/Servant (Cooking)</li> <li> Driver</li> </ul> </font> <b> <a href =” mailto:[email protected]”> Queries:[email protected]</a> </body> </html>
OR
(B)
<html> <head> <title> Events </title> </head> <body bgcolor = Cyan > <basefontface = "ARIAL”> <hl> Events </hl> <font size =5> <p > The following events are scheduled to be held on 1<sup>st</sup> April. 2023 <br> The timings are as follows: </p> <ol> <li> 9.00 AM - 10.00 AM Flag Hoisting</li> <li> 10.00 AM - 11.00 AM Painting Competition</li> <li> 11.00 AM - 12.30 PM Dance Competition</li> <li> 12.30 PM - 1.30 PM Song competition </li> <li> 1.30 PM - 2.00 PM Closing Ceremony</li> </ul> </font> <b> For any queries contact <a href = "mailto:[email protected]”> [email protected] </a> </b> </body> </html>
SECTION – E
(Case Study)
Question 25.
Arif works in a school as a web designer. He has been assigned the task of uploading the calendar of holidays for the month of March. He was supposed to design an HTML table for the same.
Help him to complete the table with the right statements in the blanks. Observe the table and attempt any four questions (out of five) given after the table.
MARCH 2023 | |||||||
DATES |
<html> <head> <title> </title> </head> <body> <table> <tr> <td colspan=-------><!- STATEMENT-1> MARCH 2023 </td> <tr> ------- <!- STATEMENTS-2> <th>DAYS</th> <th>Mon</th> <th>Tue</th> <th>Wed</th> <th>Thu</th> <th>Fri</th> <th>Sat</th> <th>Sun</th> ------- <!- STATEMENTS-3> <tr> <td ------- = 2><!- STATEMENTS-4> DATES </td> <td>6</td> <td>7</td> <td>8</td> <td>9</td> <td>10</td> <td>11</td> <td>12</td> </tr> <tr> <td> </td> </td ---------> </td><!- STATEMENT-5> </tr> </table> </body> </html>
(A) Write the attribute value to complete Statement-1 to achieve the output as given in the above table.
(B) Write the tag to complete Statement-2 to achieve the output as given in the above table.
(C) Write the attribute value to complete Statement-3 to achieve the output as given in the above table.
(D) Write the attribute name to complete Statement-4 to achieve the output as given in the above table.
(E) Write the appropriate answer for the blank given in Statement-5 to achieve the output as given in the above table. [4]
Answer:
(A) Statement 1 → 8
(B) Statement 2 → <tr>
(C) Statement 3 → </tr>
(D) Statement 4 → rowspan
(E) Statement 5 → 14
Question 26.
Rashmi is a student of ABC School. She has been provided with an email id from the school to use for all academic correspondences. She generally receives all her school’s correspondences on this email.
One day she was working in the computer lab, and after her work was over, she forgot to logout of her email account. When she left the computer lab, her classmate, Prabhnoor sends objectionable emails from the same email id, to her teachers, so as to malign Rashmi.
Based on the given situation, attempt any four (out of five) fill-ups/questions given below:
(A) Prabhnoor has invaded …………… of Rashmi.
(B) Rashmi informs her class teacher about the incident. The teacher calls Prabhnoor and makes him aware of …………… which is following ethical principles while working online.
(C) The teacher also advises all students never to share their …………… with anyone.
(D) Rashmi has learnt that she should always …………… of her email account once her work is complete.
(E) Prabhnoor is now aware of ethical practices to be followed while working over the Internet and decides to guide his friends and relatives about the same. Write any two points that Prabhnoor should advise them to do while working online. [4]
Answer:
(A) Privacy
(B) Netiquettes
(C) PersonaL Data
(D) Log out
(E) (i) Do not use anyone elses digitaL identity.
(ii) Never share your personal data such as your password with anyone.