Class: XII

Informatics Practices
Marking Scheme
Time allowed: 3 hours Maximum Marks: 70

Q No Marks
1. (a) Which of the following are open standards? 1
.OGG .DOC .BMP .ODF
Ans: .OGG
.ODF
(½ Mark for each correct answer)

(b) Ms. Ivana, a leading marketing professional working in a multinational company, 1

is most of the time on move to cater her profession demands. Although she
carries her laptop with her all the time but many a times she require to take
some data from her office PC. She has to make several requesting phone calls
to her colleague Ms. Barbara to send her required documents from her office
PC. Suggest her any one popular software name so that she can herself
remotely access her office PC anytime from anywhere.

Ans: Team Viewer

(1 Mark for correct answer)

(c) Write the URL of any one e-Governance website 1

Ans: India.gov.in
(1 Mark for correct answer)

(d) International Tour and Travels company has set up its new branch office in Jaipur 1
where different buildings are spanned over in the radius of 900 meter in Jaipur.
Name the network formed in the following situations :
(i) The branch office is connected with the regional office in New Delhi.
(ii) All the buildings of branch office are connected to each other.

Ans: (i) WAN

(ii) LAN
(½ Mark for each correct answer)

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(e) Deepti is confused between the terms ASCII and Unicode. Help her by 2
differentiating between ASCII and Unicode.
Ans: ASCII: It is a 7 bit code that can represent 27 characters. It is platform dependent.
UNICODE: It is 8 bit, 16 bit and 32 bit code to represent 2 8 , 216, 232 characters
respectively. It is platform independent. (1 Mark for each correct
differentiation)

(f) Many of the programming brains has shifted their focus from Proprietary software 4
to Free and Open software. Mention any two freedom offered by Free software.
Going with the flow, Sandhya has downloaded a software from the internet
which can be freely distributed and used by anyone but the source code is not
available. Is it Freeware or free software? Justify your answer as well.
Similarly Premjith wants to install a software on his system that can help him to
create, edit and save office documents but he does not want to purchase the
software. Suggest him a good software for the same.

Ans: Any two freedom offered by Free software are:

The freedom to run the program for any purpose. The
freedom to redistribute copies.
(1 Mark for each correct freedom)

It is Freeware as freeware software are freely distributed and used by anyone

but the source code is not available while source will be available with Free
software.
(1 Mark for correct answer)

Openoffice.org
(1 Mark for correct answer)

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2. (a) Ruby, a class XI student has just started learning java programming. Help her in 4
the following:
i. Explain her the concept of variable and data type by suitable example.
ii. Help her in understanding the difference between assignment operator and
comparison operator with the help of appropriate example.

Ans: i. Variables are named storage location to store values temporarily which can be
changed during program execution.

Data type states the way the values of that type are stored, the operations that
can be done on that type and the range for that type.

For example:
int marks;
In the above statement, int is the data type and marks is the name of variable
which store values temporarily.

(1 Mark for correct answer)

(1 Mark for correct explanations)

ii. Assignment operator (=) is used to assign any value in a variable/constant

while comparison operator (= =) is used to compare values.

For example:
int marks=90;
In the above statement value 90 is assigned to the variable named marks.

if(marks==40)
jTextField1.setText(“Just Pass”);
In the above if statement, value of marks is being compared with 40.

(1 Mark for correct answer)

(1 Mark for correct explanations)

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(b) Will the output from the following two code be any different? First 2
Code:
int x=2,y=40;
while(y<=x) {
jTextField1.setText(""+x);
x=x+8;
}

Second Code :
int x=2,y=40;
do {
jTextField1.setText(""+x);
x=x+8;
} while(y<=x);

Give reasons for your answer.

OR

Predict the output of the following

code: int n=4,f=0,i; for(i=1;i<=n;i++)
{ f=f*i; }
jTextField1.setText(""+f);
jTextField2.setText(""+i);

Ans: Yes it will be different as in First Code there will be no output while in Second
Code the output will be 2 because in while loop condition is false in the
beginning so control will not come inside the loop even for once while in do
while loop, loop will be executed at least once even if the condition is false.

(1 Mark for correct answer)

(1 Mark for correct explanations)

OR
Output: 0
5
(1 Mark for each correct answer)

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 (c) Dev, a website designer with “Creative Designers Pvt. Ltd.” has written the 4
following code. Observe the code given below and answer the following
questions:
<company>
<employee eid=1>
<name>Albert</name>
<dept deptid=“d1”>Computer</dept>
</employee>
<employee eid=2>
<name>Manisha</name>
<dept deptid=“d2”>Accounts</dept>
</employee>
</company>

i. Are these tags part of HTML code or XML code? ntion

ii. Identify the root element.
iii. Mention any two child elements.
iv. Mention any two attributes.
OR
Mention any two main differences between HTML and XML. Also me any
two main features of XML for which it’s used extensively now a days.

Ans: XML code

i. Company
ii. name, dept
iii. eid, deptid XML

(1 Mark for each correct answer) eate

OR

Two main differences between HTML and XML:

• HTML is used to display data and to focus on formatting of data, whereas is
used to describe data and focus on what data is.
• HTML tags are predefined, whereas XML tags are not predefined. We cr our
own tags in XML as per the requirement.

(1 Mark for each correct difference point)

Two main features of XML for which it’s used extensively now a days: 
XML is used to store data.
• XML is used to exchange data.

(1 Mark for each correct feature)

3. (a) What is the purpose of SQL? S. 1

Ans: SQL is structured query language. It is a standard language of all the RDBM

(1 Mark for correct answer)

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(b) Mr. Manav, a database administrator in “Global Educational and Trai Institute”ning
has created following table named “Training” for the upco ming
training schedule: 4
Training

Traini Name Email_Id Topic City Fee ng_Id

ND01 Mr. Rajan raj@gmail.com Cyber New 10000
Security Delhi
GU01 Ms. urv@yahoo.co m ICT in Gurugram 15000
Urvashi Education
FD01 Ms. Neena neenarediff.com Cyber Faridabad 12000
Security
ND02 Mr. Vinay NULL ICT in New 13000
Education Delhi
GU02 Mr. nav@gmail.co m Cyber Gurugram NULL
Naveen Security

Help him in writing SQL query for the following purpose:

i. To count how many female candidates will be attending the training.
ii. To display list of free trainings.
iii. To display all the cities where Cyber Security training is scheduled along with its
fee.
iv. To add a column feedback with suitable data type

Ans: i. Select count(name) from training where name like ‘Ms.%’;

ii. Select * from training where fee is NULL; iii. Select city, fee
from training where topic = ‘Cyber Security’; iv. Alter table
training add feedback varchar(20);

(1 Mark for each correct query)

(c) Observe the table named “Training” given above carefully and predict the output of 4
the following queries:
i. select city from training where topic = 'Cyber Security';
ii. select count(Training_Id) from training where email_id like '%gmail% ';
iii. select AVG (Fee) from training where Topic = 'Cyber Security';
iv. select name from training where INSTR (Email_Id, '@’)=0;

Ans: i. New Delhi

Faridabad
Gurugram
ii. 2
iii. 11000
iv. Ms. Neena

(1 Mark for each correct Output)

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 (d) What is the degree and cardinality of the above given table named ‘Training’. 1

Ans: Degree: 6
Cardinality: 5
(½ Mark for each correct answer)

4. (a) Shiva has placed two radio button on a payment form designed in NetBeans to 1
accept mode of payment one out of cash or card. To his surprise, during runtime,
a customer is able to select both the options for a single transaction. What went
wrong?
OR
Mention any one advantage of jCheckBox control over jRadioButton control.

Ans: Shiva has forgot to attach both the radio buttons to one button group to make
them mutually exclusive.

OR
Multiple options can be selected through jCheckBox control while jRadioButton
allows selecting a single option.

(1 Mark for correct answer)

(b) Prachi is working with following swing controls: 1

jButton, jLabel, jTextField, jCheckBox.

Suggest her any two basic methods commonly available with all the four controls
mentioned above.
OR

How jLabel is different from jTextField control at run time?

Ans: getText(), setText()

(½ Mark for each correct answer)

OR

jLabel is an un-editable control, used to display text or information at run time

while jTextField control is an editable control where user can type in characters
at run time.

(1 Mark for correct answer)

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(c) What will be an output of the following code if value of variable application is 1? 1
switch(application)
{
case 0 : jTextField1.setText("RDBMS"); case 1 :
jTextField1.setText("BROWSER"); case 2 :
jTextField1.setText("OS"); break; case 3 :
jTextField1.setText("PHOTO EDITOR"); break; default :
jTextField1.setText("Application Software"); break;
}
OR

Re-write the above given code through if-else statements.

Ans: OS

(1 Mark for correct answer)

OR

if(application= =0)
jTextField1.setText("RDBMS"); else
if(application= =1)
jTextField1.setText("BROWSER");
else if(application= =2)
jTextField1.setText("OS"); else
if(application= =3)
jTextField1.setText("PHOTO EDITOR"); else
jTextField1.setText("Application Software");

(1 Mark for correct converted code)

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 (d) Anju, a beginner in java programming has written following code with some 4
mistakes:
int k=0;
string s="Save Earth";
int l=s.length;
for(int i=0;k<l;i++)
{
jTextArea1.append(s+\n);
k++; };
Help her in identifying and correcting the errors.
Convert the correct code into do while looping statement.

OR
Observe the given code:
int ctr=10;
while(ctr>5)
{
ctr=ctr-2;
}

Attempt the following questions based on the above given code:

i. How many times the above given loop will run and what will be the value of
ctr, immediately after exiting from the loop. ii. Out of entry controlled or exit
controlled loop, above given loop will come under which category and why?

Ans: int k=0;

String s="Save Earth";
int l=s.length();
for(int i=0;k<l;i++)
{
jTextArea1.append(s+"\n");
k++;
}

(½ Mark for each correct error identification)

int i=0,k=0;
String s="Save Earth";
int l=s.length();
do
{
jTextArea1.append(s+"\n");
k++;i++; }
while(k<l);

(2 Mark for correct conversion)

OR
i. 3 times
4
(1 Mark for each correct answer)
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ii. Above given loop will come under Entry controlled loop as in the above given loop
condition is being checked at the time of entering in the loop.
(1 Mark for correct answer)
(1 Mark for correct justification)

(e) Study the following code and answer the questions that follow: 2
Study the following code and answer the questions that follow: String
str="Green World, Clean World";
int len=str.length(),remain;
remain=100-len;
jTextField2.setText(str.toUpperCase());
jTextField3.setText(Integer.toString(remain)+" more charachters can be
entered");
i. Predict the output displayed in text fields named jTextField2 and jTextField3
after running the above code. ii. Identify and name any two method of String class
used in the above code.
OR
Explain the purpose of pow() method with the help of suitable java code. Also
mention that pow() method belongs to which class?

Ans: i. GREEN WORLD, CLEAN WORLD

76 more charachters can be entered

ii.length(),toUpperCase()

( ½ Mark for each correct answer)

OR
pow() method, a mathematical method, helps in calculating the power of
any number. For example: int num=2,power=4; int
ans=Math.pow(num,power);
t1.setText(""+ans);

The above code will calculate the value of 24 and will give answer 16. pow()
method belongs to math class.

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(f) Mr. Suman, a programmer in New Era Programming World has designed a 6
registration page for a hobby club as shown below:

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 Fee for different hobbies are as follows:
Hobby Fee
Dancing 1000
Drawing 1500
Music 2000
Singing 2500
Help him in writing the code to do the following:

i. As per the hobby chosen in the hobby combo box, fee should be displayed in the
respective text field named t1 as per the criteria given above after clicking on
“Check Fee” button. ii. If a candidate belongs to “Jr. Category” then a discount of
10% should be given in displayed in the text field. iii. After clicking on the “Net
Fee” button, Net Fee should be calculated and displayed in the respective text field
as per the given formula:
Net Fee = Fee – Discount
iv. Write suitable java code to close the application.
v. Write java statement to add a new hobby “Reading” in the combo box at run
time.
OR
Write java statement to make the Net Fee text field named txtNetFee un-editable
at run time.

Ans: i. int
x=c1.getSelectedIndex(); int
fee=0; if(x==0) fee=1000;
else if(x==1) fee=1500;
else if(x==2) fee=2000;
else if(x==3) fee=2500;
t2.setText(""+fee);

(1.5 Mark for correct code)

ii.
double disc=0;
int fee=Integer.parseInt(t2.getText());
if(r2.isSelected()) disc=fee*10/100;
t3.setText(""+disc);

(1.5 Mark for correct code)

iii.
double disc=Double.parseDouble(t3.getText());
int fee=Integer.parseInt(t2.getText()); double
net=fee-disc;
t4.setText(""+net);

(1 Mark for correct code)

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 iv.
System.exit(0);

(1 Mark for correct code)

v.
c1.addItem("Reading");
OR
txtNetFee.setEditable(false);

(1 Mark for correct code)

5. (a) Write any one similarity and one difference between primary key and unique Constraint 2

Ans: Similarity: Column with both the constraints will only take unique values.
Difference: Column with Primary key constraints will not be able to hold NULL values
while Column with Unique constraints will be able to hold NULL values. (2 mark for
correct answer)

(b) Ms. Pari, a beginner in SQL is not able to understand the meaning of “Cancelling 2
a Transaction”. Help her in understanding the same. Also mention suitable
command for it.

Ans: Cancelling a transaction means rolls the transaction to the beginning. It aborts
any changes made during the transaction and the state of database is returned to
what it was before the transaction began to execute.

Rollback command is used for the same.

(2 mark for correct answer)

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(c) Consider the following tables Library given below: 4

Library

Bid Name Author Price Mem_n Issue_Date Status

ame
B01 Wings of A.P.J 550 Sarita 2018-05-20 Returned
Fire Abdul
Kalam
B02 The Monk Robin 340 Simmi 2018-03-15 Not
who sold Sharma Returned
his Ferrari
B03 You can win Shiv Khera 230 Rajat 2018-04-16 Returned

B04 Who moved Spencer 450 Ram 2018-03-17 Not

my cheese Jhonson Returned
B05 Real Patrick 250 Sia 2018-06-18 Not
Success Mather- Returned
Pike

i. Suggest the suitable data type for Issue_Date column. ii. Suggest the suitable
SQL command to change the size of column name from 30 character to 50
characters. iii. Mention the significance of Bid column in table Library. iv.
Suggest the suitable command to display a list of the books in a sequence so
that first all the book’s name should be displayed which has been returned and
after that all the book’s name which has not been returned should be displayed.
Ans: i. Date ii. alter table library modify name varchar(50); iii. Bid column will always have
a unique value which will help uniquely identify each record of Library table.
iv. Select name from library order by status desc;

(1 mark for each correct answer)

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 (d) Rishi, a class XII student has given following commands for the given 2
purposes: i. To add a new column “Rating” : update table library add column
rating varchar(20); ii. To give an increase of 50 Rs. to all the books:
alter library set price=price+50;
Check if above given SQL commands will be able to achieve desired task or not.
Justify your answer. Suggest the correction (s) if required.

Ans: No, above commands will not be able to achieve desired task as update and
alter commands have been interchanged.

In order to achieve desired result, following corrections should be incorporated

in the previously used commands:

i. To add a new column “Rating” :

Alter table library add column rating varchar(20); ii.
To give an increase of 50 Rs. to all the books:
Update library set price=price+50;

(2 mark for correct answer)

6. (a) Write SQL query to create a table “BOOKS” with the following structure: 2

Table: BOOKS

Field name Datatype Size Constraint

BOOK_ID Integer 2 Primary Key
BOOK_NAME Varchar 20
CATEGORY Varchar 10
ISSUE_DATE Date

OR

Help Ramesh in identifying any two columns for a table named student along
with their suitable data type.

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Ans: Create table Books
(
BOOK_ID Integer (2) Primary Key,
BOOK_NAME Varchar (20),
CATEGORY Varchar (20),
ISSUE_DATE Date
);

(2 mark for correct query)

OR
Column Name Data Type
RollNo Integer
Name Varchar(20)

(1 mark for each correct column name along with suitable data type)

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(b) In a Bank’s database, there are two tables ‘Customer’ and ‘Transaction’ as shown
below.
Customer
Acc_No Cust_Name Cust_City Cust_Phone Open_Bal

2101001 Sunita Ambala 9710557614 10000

2201002 Sandhya Patna 8223545233 15000

2301003 Vivek New Delhi 9972136576 13000

2401004 Meena New Delhi 9321305453 10000

Transaction

Trans_Id Acc_No Transaction_Type Amount

Tr001 2301003 Credit 15000

Tr002 2201002 Credit 20000
Tr003 2101001 Debit 3500
Tr004 2301003 Credit 26000
Tr005 2301003 Credit 24000

Consider these tables while attempting the questions given below:

(i) Identify the candidate keys of Customer table.

OR
Briefly explain the concept of Candidate keys. 1

Ans: Acc_No, Cust_Phone

(½ mark for each correct answer)

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 OR
All the columns having capability to become Primary Key are known as
Candidate Keys.

(ii) Which column can be considered as foreign key column in Transaction table? 1
OR
Identify Primary Key column of Transaction table.

Ans: Acc_No
OR
Trans_Id

(1 mark for correct answer)

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(c) With reference to the above given tables, attempt the questions given below: 6

i. Write a query to display customer’s name who has withdrawn the money.
OR
Write a query to display customer’s name along with their transaction details.

ii. Write a query to display customer’s name who have not done any
transaction yet.
OR
How many rows and column will be there in the Cartesian product of the
above given tables. Also mention the degree and cardinality of the Cartesian
product of the above given tables.

iii. Select Acc_No, sum(Amount) from Customer c, Transaction t where

c.Acc_No=t.Acc_No group by c.Acc_No having Transaction_Type="Credit";
OR
Discuss the significance of having clause with group by statement with
suitable example.

Ans: i. Select cust_name from customer c,transaction t where c.Acc_No=t.Acc_No

and Transaction_Type= "Debit";
OR
Select cust_name, t.* from customer c, transaction t
where c.Acc_No=t.Acc_No;

(2 mark for correct query)

ii. Select cust_name from customer c,transaction t

where c.Acc_No!=t.Acc_No;

(2 mark for correct query)

OR
Cartesian Product:

Number of Rows: 20
Number of Columns: 9
Degree: 9
Cardinality: 20

( ½ mark for each correct answer)

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 iii.

2301003 65000
2201002 20000

(2 mark for correct output)

OR

Sometimes we do not want to see the whole output produced by a statement with
Group By clause. We want to see the output only for those groups which satisfy
some condition. It means we want to put some condition on individual groups
(and not on individual records). A condition on groups is applied by Having
clause. For example consider the following query:

select Acc_No, sum(Amount) from Customer c, Transaction t where

c.Acc_No=t.Acc_No group by c.Acc_No having Transaction_Type="Credit";

This query will create account number wise groups and instead of displaying the
total amount of all type of transactions, it will only display the total of credit
transactions only.

(2 mark for correct answer)

7. (a) It’s an era of online financial transactions. Help Julie in identifying any two 2
challenges which a common man may face for the same.

Ans: i. A common man should have an electronic gadget like smart phone or computer.
ii. A common man should be oriented for online financial safety measures. (1
mark for each correct answer)

(b) Mention any one major environmental benefits of ICT to Ms. Megha so that she 1
can utilize it in her future “Save Earth” campaign

Ans: Major environmental impact of ICT on our society is that it is creating a virtually
paperless work environment so reducing cutting down of trees for paper
manufacturing.

(1 mark for each correct answer)

(c) Ms. Achla, works as a Programmer in a survey firm named “National Survey 2
Foundation”. In her current project, she is supposed to design a survey page for
an online educational training program. Help her in choosing the most
appropriate controls for the specified task from Textfield, Label, RadioButton,
CheckBox, ListBox, ComboBox, Button and write in the third column:

S. No. Control used to input Control

1 TRAINEE’S NAME
2 TRAINING LOCATION

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 3 GRADE THE SESSION
(Excellent, Good, Satisfactory, Unsatisfactory)

4 SUGGESTIONS

Ans:

S. No. Control used to input Control

1 TRAINEE’S NAME TextField

2 TRAINING LOCATION Radio Button/Combo Box

3 GRADE THE SESSION Radio Button/Combo Box

(Excellent, Good, Satisfactory,
Unsatisfactory)
4 SUGGESTIONS Text Area

(1/2 mark for each correct answer)

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