Informatics Practices (065)
Sample Question Paper –1
Note
1. This question paper is divided into sections
2. Section – A consists 30 marks.
3. Section – B and Section – C are of 20 marks each
4. Answer the questions after carefully reading the text.
Section – A
Q 1. Answer the following questions
(a) Explain the following terms: 2
i. Shareware
ii. PHP
(b) Elaborate the term SDLC explaining its essential components using a sample case study. 4
(c) Explain the term Data Modeling. What does UML mean? Give the name of two commercially available 4
packages supporting Object Modeling Technique.
Q2 Answer the following questions
(a) “Oracle Database is an example of an RDBMS” Justify this statement 2
(b) Define SQL. Explain SQL subcategories giving at least one example command in each category. 4
(c) Differentiate between Decision Control and Looping Control Structure in context with PL/SQL 4
Q3 Answer the following questions
(a) “Visual Basic is not an Object Oriented Language” Justify this statement. 2
(b) Differentiate using a suitable example, between MsgBox () and InputBox () functions in Visual Basic 4
(c) Differentiate between a ADODB project reference and ADO DC in a form using suitable Example 4
Section – B
Q4 Read the following case study and answer the questions that follows
Mr Nath of ABC Software Corporation has got requirement of a Software Project from a Customer in
Tours and Travel Business. He performed the preliminary analysis and found that software Application
should be based on Client/Server technology. He opted for Visual Basic Language to develop the front
end, as RAD is one of its features. We had taken the excerpt from his analysis and presenting you one
of the forms to enquire about railway reservation. Carefully observe the following picture.
The List for the above form is as follows:
Object Type Object Name Description
Form frmEnquiryForm The Main Form Object
Label lblOriginatingStation
lblDestinationStation
lblDateOfJourney
lblDD
lblMM
lblYYYY
Text Box txtOriginatingStation To enter a string type value
txtDestinationStation To enter a string type value
txtDD To enter a Date
txtMM To enter a numeric value of month
txtYYYY To enter a numeric value of Year
Command Button cmdCheckStatus To check Status of Ticket Availability
cmdCloseMe To close the form frmEnquiryForm
(a) Write the value for the Caption property of the Object cmdCheckStatus. 1
(b) Write the code snippet for cmdCloseMe Command Button if it is required to close the form on its Click 1
event.
(c) Write a code snippet to allow the user to restrict alphabets in the DD field. 4
(d) Write a procedure to check for the validity of the entered date value. Clear the text boxes for invalid 4
date value and set the focus on txtDD.
Q5 Read the following case study and answer the questions that follows
Mr. Das is working as a Chief Information Officer in AMD Constructions Company. In the month of
January he received a letter from the management to store all his employee information in electronic
form. He decided to develop a small software application to store employee’s personal data. He
instructed one of his juniors to make a Form in Visual Basic to enter employee information. The junior
presented the following form to Mr. Das
The form details are given in the following table
Object or Control Type Object Name Description
Form frmDataEntry The Main Form Object
Label lblEmployeeDataEntry
lblName
lblFatherName
lblMotherName
lblAddress
Text Box txtName To enter Name of Employee
txtFatherName To enter Father Name of employee
txtMotherName To enter Mother Name of employee
txtAddress To enter Address of employee
Option Button optFemale
To provide Gender Information
optMale
Check Box chkIntermediate To be Checked if employee is Intermediate
chkGraduate To be Checked if employee is Graduate
chkPostGraduate To be Checked if employee is Post Graduate
Command Button cmdClearForm To clear all the entered values in the form
cmdCloseForm To close the form
cmdSubmitDetails To store the form data
(a) Write a Code snippet on Click event of cmdClearForm command button to clear text box objects, set 2
default choice in the Option Buttons and clearing Check Box controls.
(b) Write a procedure procCheckQualification to be called in the cmdSubmit_Click event. The 4
procedure code will perform the following action:
If the check box chkPostGraduate is checked then the procedure will automatically check the check
boxes chkGraduate and chkIntermediate irrespective of their initial state. Similarly if the check box
chkGraduate is checked than chkIntermediate should also be automatically checked.
(c) Write a procedure procConvertCase to convert all the employee details in txtName, txtFatherName, 4
txtMotherName and txtAddress to Upper case character
Section C
5 Answer the questions
(a) Write a SQL (DDL) query to create the following table Employee 2
Column Name Data Type Size Constraint Descriptiom
EmpID NUMBER 6 PRIMARY KEY
EmpName VARCHAR2 20 NOT NULL
EmpAddress VARCHAR2 30
EmpPhone VARCHAR2 10
EmpSal NUMBER 9,2
(b) Write PL / SQL Code to increase the salary of all the employees by some percentage amount 4
accepted from the user
(c) Write program code to declare and use an Explicit Cursor to display the Salary increased by 10% 4
6 Assume that you are provided with the following two table
Table: Dept
DEPTNO DNAME LOC
10 ACCOUNTING NEW YORK
20 RESEARCH DALLAS
30 SALES CHICAGO
40 OPERATIONS BOSTON
Table: Emp
EMPNO ENAME JOB MGR HIREDATE SAL COMM DEPTNO
7369 SMITH CLERK 7902 17-Dec-80 800 20
7499 ALLEN SALESMAN 7698 20-Feb-81 1600 300 30
7521 WARD SALESMAN 7698 22-Feb-81 1250 500 30
7566 JONES MANAGER 7839 02-Apr-81 2975 20
7654 MARTIN SALESMAN 7698 28-Sep-81 1250 1400 30
7698 BLAKE MANAGER 7839 01-May-81 2850 30
7782 CLARK MANAGER 7839 09-Jun-81 2450 10
7788 SCOTT ANALYST 7566 09-Dec-82 3000 20
7839 KING PRESIDENT 17-Nov-81 5000 10
7844 TURNER SALESMAN 7698 08-Sep-81 1500 0 30
7876 ADAMS CLERK 7788 12-Jan-83 1100 20
7900 JAMES CLERK 7698 03-Dec-81 950 30
7902 FORD ANALYST 7566 03-Dec-81 3000 20
7934 MILLER CLERK 7782 23-Jan-82 1300 10
The table structure are
Table: Dept
Colum Name Data Type Size Constraint Description
DeptNo Number 2 PRIMARY KEY
Dname VARCHAR2 10 NOT NULL
Loc VARCHAR2 10
Table: Emp
Colum Name Data Type Size Constraint Description
EmpNo Number 4 PRIMARY KEY
Ename VARCHAR2 10 NOT NULL
JOB VARCHAR2 10
MGR NUMBER 4
HIREDATE DATE
SAL NUMBER (7,2)
COMM NUMBER (7,2)
DEPTNO NUMBER 2 FOREIGN KEY References
DeptNo field of
Dept Table
(a) Create a View on the above tables to show Ename, Dname, Job and Sal of an employee whose 2
department number is either 10 or 20.
(b) Write a SQL Function to return Bonus, which is calculated as 20% of the amount passed. Also give an 4
example of its use on column Sal of Emp table.
(c) Write the PL/SQL code to create a stored procedure Raise_Salary to increase salary of an employee 4
whose EMPNO and Sal_Percentage is passed as IN mode argument and will also display the
changed value.
