ICSE Class 10 Specimen Paper 2020 for Computer Applications

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS

(Theory)

(Two Hours)

Answers to this Paper must be written on the paper provided separately.

You will not be allowed to write during the first 15 minutes.

This time is to be spent in reading the question paper.

The time given at the head of this Paper is the time allowed for writing the answers.

This Paper is divided into two Sections.

Attempt all questions from Section A and any four questions from Section B.

The intended marks for questions or parts of questions are given in brackets[].

SECTION A (40 Marks)
Attempt all questions

Question 1.
(a) Define encapsulation. [2]

(b) Explain the purpose of using a ‘new’ keyword in a Java program. [2]

(c) What are literals? [2]

(d) Mention the types of access specifiers. [2]

(e) What is constructor overloading? [2]

Question 2.

(a) Differentiate between boxing and unboxing. [2]

(b) Rewrite the following condition without using logical operators: [2]

if ( a>b || a>c )

System.out.println(a);

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(c) Rewrite the following loop using for loop: [2]

while (true)

System.out.print("*");

(d) Write the prototype of a function search which takes two arguments a string [2]
and a character and returns an integer value.

(e) Differentiate between = and == operators. [2]

Question 3.
(a) State the number of bytes and bits occupied by a character array of 10 elements. [2]

(b) Differentiate between Binary Search and Linear Search techniques. [2]

(c) What is the output of the following: [2]

String a="Java is programming language \n developed by \t\'James Gosling\'";

System. out. println(a);

(d) Differentiate between break and System. exit(0). [2]
(e) (𝑎+𝑏)3 [2]
Write a statement in Java for √ |𝑎−𝑏|

(f) What is the value of m after evaluating the following expression: [2]
m - = 9%++n + ++n/2; when int m=10,n=6

(g) Predict output of the following: [2]

(i) Math.pow(25,0.5)+Math.ceil(4.2)

(ii) Math.round ( 14.7 ) + Math.floor ( 7.9)

(h) Give the output of the following java statements: [2]

(i) "TRANSPARENT".toLowerCase();

(ii) "TRANSPARENT".compareTo("TRANSITION")

(i) Write a java statement for each to perform the following task: [2]

(i) Find and display the position of the last space in a string str.

(ii) Extract the second character of the string str.

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(j) State the type of errors if any in the following statements: [2]

(i) switch ( n > 2 )

(ii) System.out.println(100/0);

SECTION B (60 Marks)
Attempt any four questions from this Section.
The answers in this Section should consist of the Programs in either Blue J environment or any
program environment with Java as the base.
Each program should be written using Variable descriptions/Mnemonic Codes so that the logic
of the program is clearly depicted.
Flow-Charts and Algorithms are not required.

Question 4.
Anshul transport company charges for the parcels of its customers as per the following [15]
specifications given below:

Class name : Atransport

Member variables: String name – to store the name of the customer

int w – to store the weight of the parcel in Kg

int charge – to store the charge of the parcel

Member functions: void accept ( ) – to accept the name of the customer,
weight of the parcel from the user (using
Scanner class)

void calculate ( ) – to calculate the charge as per the weight
of the parcel as per the following
criteria.

Weight in Kg Charge per Kg
Upto 10 Kgs Rs.25 per Kg
Next 20 Kgs Rs.20 per Kg
Above 30 Kgs Rs.10 per Kg

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A surcharge of 5% is charged on the bill.

void print ( ) – to print the name of the customer, weight of the parcel, total bill
inclusive of surcharge in a tabular form in the following format :

Name Weight Bill amount

------- --------- ---------------

Define a class with the above-mentioned specifications, create the main method,
create an object and invoke the member methods.

Question 5.

Write a program to input name and percentage of 35 students of class X in two separate [15]
one dimensional arrays. Arrange students details according to their percentage in the
descending order using selection sort method. Display name and percentage of first
ten toppers of the class.

Question 6.

Design a class to overload a function Sum( ) as follows: [15]

(i) int Sum(int A, int B) – with two integer arguments (A and B) calculate and return
sum of all the even numbers in the range of A and B.

Sample input: A=4 and B=16

Sample output: sum = 4 + 6 + 8 + 10 + 12 + 14 + 16

(ii) double Sum( double N ) – with one double arguments(N) calculate and return
the product of the following series:

sum = 1.0 x 1.2 x 1.4 x …………. x N

(iii) int Sum(int N) - with one integer argument (N) calculate and return sum of only
odd digits of the number N.

Sample input : N=43961

Sample output : sum = 3 + 9 + 1 = 13

Write the main method to create an object and invoke the above methods.

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Question 7.
Using the switch statement, write a menu driven program to perform following [15]
operations:

𝑥 3 +0.5𝑥
(i) To Print the value of Z where Z = where x ranges from – 10 to 10 with
𝑌

an increment of 2 and Y remains constant at 5.5.

(ii) To print the Floyds triangle with N rows

Example: If N = 5, Output:

1

2 3

4 5 6

7 8 9 10

11 12 13 14 15

Question 8.

Write a program to input and store integer elements in a double dimensional array of [15]
size 4×4 and find the sum of all the elements.

7 3 4 5

5 4 6 1

6 9 4 2

3 2 7 5

Sum of all the elements: 73

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Question 9.
[15]
Write a program to input a string and convert it into uppercase and print the pair of
vowels and number of pair of vowels occurring in the string.

Example:

Input:

"BEAUTIFUL BEAUTIES "

Output :

Pair of vowels: EA, AU, EA, AU, IE

No. of pair of vowels: 5

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