Question Papers

MODEL EXAMINATION 2009-2010

Part-III

COMPUTER APPLICATION (COMMERCE)

HSE (1) Max Score: 60

Time 2.00Hrs

Cool Off Time: 15 Min

General Instructions to Candidates:

There is a cool off time of 15 minutes in addition to the writing time of 2 Hrs.

You are not allowed to write your answers nor to discuss anything with others during the cool off time. Use the cool off time to get familiar with the questions and plan your answers.

Read questions carefully before answering.

All the questions are compulsory and only internal choice is allowed. Calculations, figures and graphs should be shown in the answer sheet itself..

PART A

1. The application form for plus one admission is used to prepare the ranklist.

Identify the data and information in this case ( 1 score)

2. Anu submits the application form for plus one after the last date of submission. The application

is rejected by the authority. Give reason connected to utility factors of information ( 1 score)

3. Convert 9AD516 to octal ( 2 score)

OR

3. subtract 30 from 35 using 1’s compliment ( 2 score)

4. Fill in the blanks

5508, 5578, 5668, _ ,

( 1 score)

5. Express (-30) in 2’s compliment form. (1 score)

6. Match the following

A B C

a. Compression utility i. Perform calculation a. System Software

b. Linux ii. Stores the memory address b. Application software c. MS Excel iii. Create free space c. Register

d. Program Counter iv. X windows d. Spread sheet (4 score)

OR

7. Explain any two non impact printers ( 4 score)

8. Toner is used in _ printer (1 score)

9. Differentiate between internet and intranet. ( 2 score)

10. The following figure shows a type of network connection in LAN

a.	Name the type of topology shown in the figure		(1	score)
b.	Explain any other two network topologies		(2	score)

11. Tony draw a flowchart for printing smallest of two numbers

START

Read A , B

Is

A<B

Small = B Small = A

stop stop

Unfortunately some errors had happen. Help him to identify the errors and to draw errorless flowchart completely. ( 2 score)

12. Ramu copies some games in his CD from his friend’s computer. Identify the offence he is doing.

( 1 score)

13. List the phases in programming in correct order. (2 score)

14. While creating a document in MS Word, Thomas copies a portion of the document for

Pasting purpose. Identify the name of the memory location in which it is stored. ( 1 score)

15. The operating system used in the computer of a library was MS DOS. They planned to change the operating system to some GUI platform.

a. Suggest a suitable GUI operating system ( 1 score)

b. Explain any two advantages of GUI ( 2 score)

16. Identify the areas in human life where the following application of computers are applied. a. MRI scan b. CAI c. Tally

d. Video editing e. E-Governance f. CAD ( 3 score)

17. ATM stands for _ _ ( 1 score)

18. Which computer technology is used in “sutharya keralam” of Doordarshan for the face to face communication between the Chief Minister and the peoples in different places ? ( 1 score)

19. Categorise the following into traditional methods and modern methods.

Messenger, email, telegram, teleconferencing (2 score)

20. Mr . Ansar Mohammed obtained his elder son’s birth certificate from the Corporation office ten years ago was in ugly looking and handwritten manner. Also it takes long time

to got it. But the certificate of his younger son obtained one month ago was in a neatly printed form and he got it in less time.

a. Identify in which cases the modern method and traditional method used (1 score)

b. Suggest the facilities used in modern method (1 score)

21. Rajesh wants to download a file from a website. Suggest suitable steps for that. ( 2 score)

22. Suppose you wants to collect information about ‘Rivers of Kerala’ using internet.

Suggest the facility of internet which helps you. (1 score)

23. In internet, we want to visit some sites frequently. In such cases, it requires typing the particular web address repeatedly every time you visit. What is the feature available in

web browser to avoid this? ( 1 score)

24. Mention the difference between compiler and interpreter. ( 2 score)

PART B

1. You want to display the output of a VB project in the right bottom corner of the screen.

How can you achieve it. ( 1 score)

2. While opening a VB IDE there is no properties window. How the property window

can be made available in VBIDE ( 1 score)

3. Find the odd one out

a. .frm b. .ocx c. .vbp d. .vba e. .cls ( 1 score)

4. The part of IDE which displays the components of project is _

( 1 score)

5. Name the following.

b. Property that determines if a control is active or not c. Property that identifies a control

d. The menu that contains commands to add or remove forms in a project (3 score)

6. Satheesh wants to show a form on the screen without title bar. Which property of form

will help him for this. ( 1 score)

7. Pick the odd one out.

a. Keypress b. change c. hide d. unload ( 1 score)

8. Rinita is creating a form in VB to accept the username and password from the user with the help of textboxes.

a. For accepting the username the user must be able to enter at most 10 characters in it.

Name the property that can be used for this ( 1 score)

b. While entering characters in password it should show only ‘*’ in place of character.

Mention the property for this. ( 1 score)

9. Suppose x=2, y= 1 . Write the output of the following.

a. x mod y b. (x ^ 2 – y ^ 2) / (x + y)

c. (x + y) \ x d. y / x ( 4 score)

10. Consider the following code.

For I = 1 to 10

Print I*I

Next I

a. Write the output of the above code. ( 1 score)

b. Rewrite it using Do ……Until ( 2 score)

11. Rewrite the following using elseif ladder

Select case batch

Case 1

Case 2

Text1. text= “science”

Text1. text= “humanities”