Army Public School, Chennai
HALF YEARLY EXAM (2025-2026)
INFORMATICS PRACTICES (065)
Date: 24-09-2025 Max Marks: 70
CLASS XII SEC: A,B,C Time: 3
HOURS
General Instructions:
1. This question paper contains five sections, Section A to E.
2. All questions are compulsory.
3. Section A have 18 questions carrying 01 mark each.
4. Section B has 07 Very Short Answer type questions carrying 02 marks each.
5. Section C has 05 Short Answer type questions carrying 03 marks each.
6. Section D has 03 Long Answer type questions carrying 05 marks each.
7. Section E has 02 questions carrying 04 marks each. One internal choice is
given in Q35 against part c only.
8. All programming questions are to be answered using Python Language only.
PART A
1. Television cable network is an example of: 1
i. LAN ii.WAN iii.MAN iv.Internet
2. Which of the following topologies is very efficient and all nodes are connected to 1
a central hub?
i. Star ii.Tree iii.Bus iv.Ring
3. Which of the following is the correct output of the following SQL command? 1
SELECT ROUND (7876.4568, 2);
i.7876.46 ii. 7900 iii.7876.45 iv. 7900.4568
4. Which type of values will not be considered by SQL while executing the 1
following statement?
SELECT COUNT(column name) FROM inventory;
i.Numeric value ii.text value iii.Null value iv.Date value
5. If column “Fees” contains the data set (5000,8000,7500,5000,8000), what will 1
be the output after the execution of the given query?
SELECT SUM (DISTINCT Fees) FROM student;
i.20500 ii.10000 iii.20000 iv.33500
6. Aggregate functions are also known as: 1
i.Scalar Functions iii. Multiple Row Functions
ii.Single Row Functions iv. Hybrid Functions
7. Which SQL statement do we use to find out the total number of records present 1
in the table ORDERS?
i. SELECT * FROM ORDERS;
ii. SELECT COUNT (*) FROM ORDERS;
iii. SELECT FIND (*) FROM ORDERS;
iv. SELECT SUM () FROM ORDERS;
8. Which one of the following is not an aggregate function? 1
i.ROUND() ii.SUM() iii.COUNT() iv. AVG()
9. Which one of the following functions is used to find the largest value from the 1
given data in MySQL?
i.MAX( ) ii.MAXIMUM( ) iii.BIG( ) iv.LARGE( )
10. To display last five rows of a series object ‘S’, you may write: 1
i.S.Head() ii.S.Tail(5) iii.S.Head(5) iv.S.tail()
11. Which of the following statement will import pandas library? 1
i. Import pandas as pd
ii. import Pandas as py
iii. import pandas as pd
iv. import panda as pd
12. Which of the following can be used to specify the data while creating a 1
DataFrame?
i.Series ii.List of Dictionaries
iii.Structured ndarray iv.All of these
13. Which amongst the following is not an example of a browser? 1
i.Chrome ii.Firefox iii.Avast iv.Edge
14. In SQL, which function is used to display current date and time? 1
i.Date () ii.Time () iii.Current () iv.Now ()
15. Which of the following is used to fill missing values in a DataFrame? 1
i.skipna ii.fillna iii.replacena iv.inplacena
16. What will be shape of given dataframe? 1
i. (5,2) ii. (2,5) iii. (10,) iv. (2,)
Q17 and 18 are ASSERTION AND REASONING based questions. Mark the correct choice as
i. Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation for A
ii. Both A and R are true and R is not the correct explanation for A
iii. A is True but R is False
iv. A is false but R is True
17. Assertion (A): - Internet cookies are text files that contain small pieces of data, 1
like a username, password and user’s preferences while surfing the internet.
Reasoning (R):- To make browsing the Internet faster & easier, its required to
store certain information on the server’s computer.
18. Assertion (A):- DataFrame has both a row and column index. 1
Reasoning (R): - A DataFrame is a two-dimensional labelled data structure like
a table of MySQL.
PART B
19. Explain the terms Web page and Home Page. 2
OR
Mention any four networking goals.
20. Rashmi, a database administrator needs to display house wise total number of 2
records of ‘Red’ and ‘Yellow’ house. She is encountering an error while
executing the following query:
SELECT HOUSE, COUNT (*) FROM STUDENT GROUP BY HOUSE
WHERE HOUSE=’RED’ OR HOUSE= ‘YELLOW’;
Help her in identifying the reason of the error and write the correct query by
suggesting the possible correction (s).
21. What is the purpose of Order By clause in SQL? Explain with the help of 2
suitable example.
22. Write a program to create a series object using a dictionary that stores the 2
number of students in each house of class 12B of your school.
Note: Assume four house names are Krishna, Cauveri, Narmada and
Ganga having 18, 2, 20, 18 students respectively.
23. Expand TCP/IP. Write the purpose of TCP/IP in communication of 2
data on a network.
OR
What is protocol? Name any 5 protocols
24. What will be the output of the following code: 2
>>>import pandas as pd
>>>A=pd.Series(data=[35,45,55,40])
>>>print(A>45)
25. Carefully observe the following code: 2
import pandas as pd
Year1={'Q1':5000,'Q2':8000,'Q3':12000,'Q4': 18000}
Year2={'A' :13000,'B':14000,'C':12000}
totSales={1:Year1,2:Year2}
df=pd.DataFrame(totSales)
print(df)
Answer the following:
i. List the index of the DataFrame df
ii. List the column names of DataFrame df.
SECTION C
26. Write outputs for SQL queries (i) to (iii) which are based on the given table 3
PURCHASE:
TABLE: PURCHASE
CNO CNAME CITY QUANTITY DOP
C01 GURPREET NEW DELHI 150 2022-06-11
C02 MALIKA HYDERABAD 10 2022-02-19
C03 NADAR DALHOUSIE 100 2021-12-04
C04 SAHIB CHANDIGARH 50 2021-10-10
C05 MEHAK CHANDIGARH 15 2021-10-20
i. SELECT LENGTH(CNAME) FROM PURCHASE WHERE
QUANTITY>100;
ii. SELECT CNAME FROM PURCHASE WHERE
MONTH(DOP)=3;
iii. SELECT MOD (QUANTITY, DAY(DOP)) FROM PURCHASE
WHERE CITY= ‘CHANDIGARH’;
27. Write a Python code to create a DataFrame with appropriate column headings 3
from the list given below:
[[101,'Gurman',98],[102,'Rajveer',95],[103,'Samar' ,96],[104,'Yuvraj',88]]
28. Consider the given DataFrame ‘Stock’: 3
Name Price
0 Nancy Drew 150
1 Hardy boys 180
2 Diary of a wimpy kid 225
3 Harry Potter 500
Write suitable Python statements for the following:
i. Add a column called Special_Price with the following
data: [135,150,200,440].
ii. Add a new book named ‘The Secret' having price 800.
iii. Remove the column Special_Price.
29. Write a python program to sort the following data according to ascending order of 3
Age
OR
Write a python program to sort the following data according to descending
order of Name.
30. Based on table STUDENT given here, write suitable SQL queries for the 3
following:
Roll No Name Class Gender City Marks
1 Abhishek XI M Agra 430
2 Prateek XII M Mumbai 440
3 Sneha XI F Agra 470
4 Nancy XII F Mumbai 492
5 Himnashu XII M Delhi 360
6 Anchal XI F Dubai 256
7 Mehar X F Moscow 324
8 Nishant X M Moscow 429
i. Display gender wise highest marks.
ii. Display city wise lowest marks.
iii. Display total number of male and female students.
OR
Discuss the significance of Group by clause in detail with the help of suitable
example.
SECTION D
1. Write suitable SQL query for the following: 5
i. Display 7 characters extracted from 7th left character onwards from the
string ‘INDIA SHINING’.
ii. Display the position of occurrence of string ‘COME’ in the string
‘WELCOME WORLD’.
iii. Round off the value 23.78 to one decimal place.
iv. Display the remainder of 100 divided by 9.
v. Remove all the expected leading and trailing spaces from ‘ USERS
’.
OR
Explain the following SQL functions using suitable examples.
i. UCASE()
ii. TRIM()
iii. MID()
iv. DAYNAME()
v. POWER()
32. Prime Computer services Ltd. is an international educational organization. It is 5
planning to set up its India campus at Mumbai with its head office in Delhi. The
Mumbai office campus has four main buildings-ADMIN, ACCOUNTS,
EXAMINATION and RESULT.
You as a network expert have to suggest the best network related solutions for
their problems raised in (i) to (v), keeping in mind the distances between the
buildings and other given parameters
(i) Suggest the most appropriate location of the server inside the
MUMBAI campus (out of the four buildings) to get the best
connectivity for maximum number of computers. Justify your
answer.
(ii) Suggest and draw cable layout to efficiently connect various
buildings within the MUMBAI campus for a wired connectivity.
(iii) Which networking device will you suggest to be procured by the
company to interconnect all the computers of various buildings of
MUMBAI campus?
(iv) Company is planning to get its website designed which will allow
students to see their results after registering themselves on its server.
Out of the static or dynamic, which type of website will you
suggest?
(v) Which of the following will you suggest to establish the online face
to face communication between the people in the ADMIN office of
Mumbai campus and Delhi head office?
a) Cable TV
b) Email
c) Video conferencing
d) Text chat
33. What is a Series and how is it different from a 1-D array, a list and a dictionary? 5
SECTION E
34. Shreya, a database administrator has designed a database for a clothing shop. 1+1+2
Help her by writing answers of the following questions based on the given
table: TABLE: CLOTH
CCODE CNAME SIZE COLOR PRICE DOP
C001 JEANS XL BLUE 990 2022-01-21
C002 T SHIRT M RED 599 2021-12-12
C003 TROUSER M GREY 399 2021-11-10
C004 SAREE FREE GREEN 1299 2019-11-12
C005 KURTI L WHITE 399 2021-12-07
i. Write a query to display cloth names in lower case.
ii. Write a query to display the lowest price of the cloths.
iii. Write a query to count total number of cloths purchased of medium
size.
OR (Option for part iii only)
Write a query to count year wise total number of cloths purchased.
35. Mr. Som, a data analyst has designed the DataFrame df that contains data about
Computer Olympiad with ‘CO1’, ‘CO2’, ‘CO3’, ‘CO4’, ‘CO5’ as indexes
shown below. Answer the following questions:
School Tot_students Topper First_Runnerup
CO1 PPS 40 32 8 1+1+2
CO2 JPS 30 18 12
CO3 GPS 20 18 2
CO4 MPS 18 10 8
CO5 BPS 28 20 8
A. Predict the output of the following python statement:
i. df.shape
ii. df[2:4]
B. Write Python statement to display the data of Topper column of
indexes CO2 to CO4.
OR (Option for part iii only)
Write Python statement to compute and display the difference of data of
Tot_students column and First_Runnerup column of the above given
DataFrame.
