Students must start practicing the questions from CBSE Sample Papers for Class 10 Computer Applications with Solutions Set 4 are designed as per the revised syllabus.
CBSE Sample Papers for Class 10 Computer Applications Set 4 with Solutions
Time Allowed: 2 Hours
Maximum Marks: 50
General Instructions:
- This Question Paper has 5 Sections A-E.
- All Questions are compulsory. However, an internal choice of approximately 30% is provided.
- Section A has 12 questions carrying 01 mark each.
- Section B has 7 Very Short Answer (VSA) type questions carrying 02 marks each.
- Section C has 4 Short Answer (SA) 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.
In an email address, the characters following character represent: [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 2.
A word document has to be sent through emaiL Which of the following options will be appropriate for this? [1]
(a) Compose
(b) Cc
(c) Bcc
(d) Attach
Answer:
(d) Attach
Related Theory:
The ‘Attach’ feature in the compose mail window is given in the form of a paperclip icon. It is used to add an attachment like document files, picture files etc with an email message and send along with it to the recipient.
Question 3.
A fraudster approaches a merchant and proposes a business transaction using fraudulent means such as stolen or fake credit cards to pay for it, which type of crime is this? [1]
(a) Theft
(b) e-Commerce Fraud
(c) Invasion of Privacy
(d) Digital Property Theft
Answer:
(b) e-Commerce Fraud
Explanation:
e-commerce fraud is when a criminal leverages stolen payment information or fraudulently acquired bank or credit card accounts to attempt retail transactions without the account owner’s knowledge.
Question 4.
The tag used to display a picture in webpage: [1]
(a) <Image>
(b) <IMG>
(c) <Source>
(d) <SRC>
Answer:
(b) <IMG>
Related Theory
SRC attribute in <IMC> tag specifies the path of the image to be displayed in webpage.
Question 5.
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 6.
Consider the following code snippet: [1]
<body bgcolor =” blue” text =” yellow”>
<font face=garamond size=15>
Welcome to the world of HTML
</font>
</body>
Which tag is responsible for text formatting?
(a) Text
(b) Body
(c) Font
(d) All of these
Answer:
(c) Font
Explanation:
The <FONT></FONT> tag lets you set the size, colour, and style of the text on webpage.
Question 7.
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 8.
Protocols are [1]
(a) An agreement on how communicating devices will communicate.
(b) Logical communication channels for transferring data.
(c) Physical communication channels used for transferring data.
(d) None of above.
Answer:
(a) An agreement on how communicating devices will communicate.
Explanation:
Protocols define the set of rules that govern the communication between two computers connected to a network.
Question 9.
Usenet is used for online discussions through posts about various topics. It is known as: [1]
(a) Chat
(b) Email
(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 10.
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 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): <BASEFONT> tag affects all the text of the webpage.
Reason (R): <BASEFONT> is used for default setting of the text,
(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 a correct explanation of Assertion (A)
Explanation:
<BASEFONT> tag is used for the defauk font setting in the webpage. The attributes used in <BASEFONT> tag are same as in <FONT> tag. This tag will affect all the text unt\a new tag affecting it is encountered.
Question 12.
Assertion (A): A numbered list is also called an ordered list.
Reason (R) : The items tagged in the ordered list appear with special bullet symboL
(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 and Reason (R) is false
Explanation:
The numbered list is called ordered list and the items appear numbered e.g. 1, 2, 3,„.. The numbered/ ordered list is created using tag <OL> and </OL>. Each list item is given with <LI> tag.
SECTION – B (14 Marks)
Question 13.
What are the categories in which e-banking is divided? [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.
Question 14.
Write one advantage and one disadvantage of the news group. [2]
OR
Write one advantage and one disadvantage of e-shopping.
Answer:
An advantage and a disadvantage of a news group are 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 atleast a day, sometimes longer, before a response is given.
OR
An advantage and a disadvantage of e-shopping are as follows:
- Advantage: Online stores are equally accessible from metro cities, non metro cities, remote areas, which is not the case with brick and mortar stores. Thus, a person can shop online from an online store being anywhere in the world where the online store can deliver.
- Disadvantage: Some people like the idea of physically going to a store and experiencing the shopping process. They like to touch the merchandise, try on the clothing, and be around other people. Online shopping doesn’t permit shoppers to touch products or have any sort of social interaction.
Question 15.
State the function of the <CAPTION> tag that is used with a table. [2]
Answer:
The <CAPTION> tag in FiTML is used to specify a table’s title. Caption is by default center-aligned and it is inserted immediately after the <table> tag.
Question 16.
Define digital divide. [2]
OR
What is data encryption?
Answer:
A digital divide is economic and social inequality with rigid access, use and impact of information and communication technologies.
Related Theory:
Two major reasons of this digital divide are:
(a) Lack of technology reach in many rural areas
(b) Lesser rate of digital literacy in rural areas as compared to urban areas.
OR
Data encryption refers to scrambling information and utilising it to secure data that is constantly hung on a machine, replicated onto CDs or DVDs or transmitted over a system. Users can access encrypted data with an encryption key and decrypted data with a decryption key.
Question 17.
What do you mean by the properties: margin and padding in OES? [2]
Answer:
Margin: An element has four sides left, right, top and bottom. The margin is the distance from each side to the neighboring element or the borders of the document and it is specified through four properties that are margin left, margin right, margin top and margin bottom.
Padding: It can also be understood as filling. This makes sense as padding does not affect the distance of the element to other elements but only defines the inner distance between the border and the content of the element. There are four padding values i.e. padding top, padding right, padding bottom and padding left.
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 betweqn both the attributes? [2]
OR
Shradho is writing a code to create Internal hyperlink. What is given with ‘href’ attribute in internaL hyperlink?
Answer:
The differences between COLSPAN and ROWSPAN are as follows:
| COLSPAN | ROWSPAN |
| 1. It merges two or more Cells in a row into a single Cell horizontally. | 1. It merges two or more Cells in the same column as a single Cell vertically |
| 2. COLSPAN attribute defines the number of columns a cell should span or merge. | 2. ROWSPAN attribute specifies the number of rows a cell should span. |
Related Theory:
CELLSPACING attribute is used to specify the space between cells in a table i.e., the distance between two cells. Cell padding defines spcae between cell walls.
OR
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.
Question 19.
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 act Open dialogue box. Select the relevant document.
SECTION – C (12 Marks)
Question 20.
State any three reasons why you should have security systems installed in your computer system. [3]
Answer:
The reasons to install security applications or systems in computer system are:
- It is used to ensure data protection.
- It is used to ensure that the computer performs well and gives accessibility to only authorized persons at any point of time.
- It helps to scan removable devices and keeps spam sites and ads at bay.
Question 21.
(A) What is telnet and how does it help a user for remote logins. [3]
Answer:
Telnet is protocol that lets you log on to remote computer systems.
(B) State the ways to upload and download a file on / from FTP server.
Answer:
To upload a file on FTP server, you need to copy a file from your computer and paste it to FTP server’s folder just as the way you copy other files on your computer system.
To download a file from the FTP server, just copy a file from any of the folders of the FTP server and paste it onto your computer’s folder just as the way you copy other files on your computer system. Once done, simply close the FTP server’s window.
Question 22.
Write a CSS code to display festival type links with font as ‘Georgia’ and color as ‘Gray’ and all links have size as 12 pt. [3]
OR
Create an HTML document to display the student’s information like name, date of birth, school name, class. The heading of this page will be “Student’s Record”. Link the external CSS file student.css to this document.
Answer:
CSS code:
{color: blue; font-size : 12 pt}
Festival {
font – family : Georgia; color: Gray;
}
OR
The code for HTML document is:
<html> <head> <link rel= "style sheet” type = “text/ css” href=”student.css"> </head> <body> <h1>Student’s Record</h1> <p>Name: Ajay Pratap Singh <br> Date of birth: 10/03/2003<br> School Name: St. Francis sr. Sec. School<br> Class : XII A </p> </body> </html>
Question 23.
What is a search engine? Name any two popular search engines. [3]
Answer:
A search engine is a software that looks for and distinguishes things in a database then compares those to essential
words or characters tagged by the users, utilized particularly for discovering specific destinations on the World Wide Web.
Two popular search engines are- Google and Bing.
SECTION – D (4 Marks)
Question 24.
Suman has to create the following list through HTML as a part of his social science project. Help her in writing the HTML code for the same. [4]
OR
Write the HTML code to design the web page as shown below, considering the given specifications. Students can write code for any 4 specifications out of the given 5 specifications.
Specification 1: The caption of the table should be ‘Number of students’.
Specification 2: The value of the border attribute should be 2.
Specification 3: The distance between cells should be 3 and the space between data and cell walls should be 5.
Specification 4: The data should be in the center of the cell.
Specification 5: The web page should contain text exactly as shown in the above image.
Answer:
Code:
<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>COUNTRIES</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> ASIAN COUNTRIES AND THEIR CAPITALS <OL type="1'’> <LI>INDIA</LI> <UL type=“circle”> <LI>New Delhi</LI> </UL> <LI>PAKISTANT</LI> <UL type=“circle"> <LI>lslamabad</LI> </UL> <LI>THAILAND</LI> <UL type=“circle’’> <LI>Bangkok</LI> </UL> </OL> </BODY> </HTML>
OR
<html> <body> <table border=2 cellspacing=2 cellDadding =5> <cact:or>\jmber o* Students</ caption> <tr> <th> Class </th> <th> Stjdents</th> </tr> <tr align= center> <td>X A</td> <td> 56</td> </tr> <tr align= center> <td> X B </td> <td> 58 </td> </tr> </table> </body> </htmL>
SECTION – E (8 Marks)
Question 25.
Shobhit is creating an online form for hotel booking. Help him to complete the code with right statements in the blanks. Observe the webpage and attempt any four questions (out of 5) given after the web page.
<html> <body> <hl>Hotel Skyline</hl> <h2>Booking</h2> <form action = method = “post"> Name :< type= “text" id="Name"> <!- - Statement 1 - -> <br> Address :<input type= ....... id="Add"> <!- - Statement 2 - -> <br> Type of Resident:<input type="radio" name="resi" ...... = ”ind">Indian<!-- Statement 3—> <input type= name=”resi" value=”nri">NRI <!- - Statement 4 - -> <br> Type of Room: <select name= “room"> < ..... value= “ACS">AC Single</option> <!- - Statement 5 - -> <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>
(A) Write the correct tag in statement -1 to achieve the output, given in the above web page. [1]
Answer:
(A) input
Explanation:
<input> tag specifies an input field where the user can enter data such as text box, radio button, list box etc.
(B) Write the suitable attribute for the blank given in statement – 2. [1]
Answer:
text
Explanation:
The type = “text” is used to define a single line text field.
(C) Write the correct tag for the blank given in statement – 3. [1]
Answer:
value
Explanation:
The value attribute is used to define the initial value of INPUT element. It is used differently with different input types.
(D) Write an appropriate answer for blank in statement -4. [1]
Answer:
radio
Explanation:
The <input type = “radio”> is used to define a radio button.
(E) Write the suitable tag for blank in statement – 5. [1]
Answer:
option
Explanation:
The <option> tag is used to define options in a dropdown list.
Question 26.
Read the case study given below and attempt any four sub-questions (out of 5).
Each sub-question carries 1 mark.
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) The URL he typed is also called of the web site. [1]
Answer:
Web address.
Related Theory
A URL i.e. Uniform Resource Locator is a unique location or address of a web site on a web server.
(B) Lakshya wants to download the information for his project. Help him understand what is downloading? [1]
Answer:
Downloading is the process of saving web pages, images and files from a web server on users local host computer using internet.
(C) Lakshya uses web browser to work on internet. Define web browser. [1]
Answer:
A web browser or a browser is an application or software used to access and view websites.
Related Theory
Opera, Google Chrome. Microsoft Edge are examples of web browser.
(D) Which type of software Lakshya will use to find information on internet? [1]
Answer:
Search Engine.
Explanation:
The websites used to search any type of information on internet are called search engines.
(E) Lakhya wants to search information on rivers of India excluding Ganga. The query for this search will be ……………….
Answer:
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.