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AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY EXAMINATION BOARD

HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOL CERTIFICATE

CLASS XI EXAMINATION

MAY 2016

Computer Science Paper I

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Time: 40 minutes Marks: 30

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INSTRUCTIONS
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1. Read each question carefully.

2. Answer the questions on the separate answer sheet provided. DO NOT write your answers on the
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question paper.
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3. There are 100 answer numbers on the answer sheet. Use answer numbers 1 to 30 only.
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4. In each question there are four choices A, B, C, D. Choose ONE. On the answer grid black out
the circle for your choice with a pencil as shown below.
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Candidate’s Signature

5. If you want to change your answer, ERASE the first answer completely with a rubber, before
blacking out a new circle.
6. DO NOT write anything in the answer grid. The computer only records what is in the circles.

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1. When compared to static RAM, 6. The phase of System Development

dynamic RAM is more Life Cycle (SDLC) which requires
the members of testing team is
A. expensive.
B. fast. A. analysis.
C. power consuming. B. design.
D. volatile. C. preliminary investigation.
D. implementation.
2. 1 Giga Byte (GB) of memory is equal
to 7. In OSI model, which of the following

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layers specifies how data is processed
A. 210 MB. into bits and transferred over

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B. 220 MB. medium?
C. 102 MB.
D. 104 MB. A. Application

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B. Physical

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3. Which of the following is/ are the C. Session

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feature(s) of electronic books? D. Transport

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Expensive
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8. A powerful feature of client server
networking is
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A. decentralisation of resources.
A. III only B. easy to install and maintain.
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B. I and II C. small group of network users.

C. I and III D. strong security measures.
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D. II and III
9. A router can use all of the following
4. Which of the following helps to technologies EXCEPT
improve efficiency by applying
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information technology to common A. token ring.

administrative tasks? B. ethernet.
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C. frame relay.
A. Office automation system D. network interface card.
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B. Payroll information system

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C. Inventory management 10. A set of rules that governs data

system communication is called a
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D. Decision making information

system A. protocol.
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B. standard.
5. The code printed on a bank’s cheque C. topology.
is in the form of D. forum.

A. a bar code. 11. Which of the following is a

B. optical marks. characteristic of WAN?
C. optical characters.
D. magnetic ink characters. A. It has a vast geographic scope.
B. It uses transmission medium.
C. All WAN services are
globally available.
D. It often fails.

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12. Most network systems use ethernet 17. Which of the following is/ are the
10Base-T on star topology with example(s) of analogue signals?

A. telephone network. I. Sound produced by human

B. twisted-pair wiring. voice
C. coaxial cable. II. Data stored in computer
D. fibre-optics cable. memory
III. A clock that has hour, minute,
13. The given diagram shows and second hands, gives
information in a continuous

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outer jacket form
cladding

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A. I only
plastic buffer
glass or B. I and II

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plastic core C. I and III
D. II and III

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18. Which of the following is/ are the
A. a coaxial cable. type(s) of unguided media?
B. a fibre-optics cable. AT I. Landline telephone system
C. a shielded twisted pair cable.
II. Radio broadcasting
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D. an unshielded twisted pair
III. Cellular telephone system
cable.
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A. II only
14. Which of the following is a feature of
B. I and III
coaxial cable?
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C. II and III
A. Highest data rate D. I and II
B. Higher frequency rate
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19. All of the following hardware are

C. Resistance to corrosive
required for Computer Aided Design
materials
(CAD) EXCEPT
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D. Less affected by
electromagnetic noise A. digitizing tablet.
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B. light pen.
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C. plotter.
accommodate
D. microphone.
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A. 64 number of characters.
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B. 128 number of characters.

data in
C. 256 number of characters.
D. 512 number of characters. A. word processors.
B. web browsers.
16. Telephone conversations between
C. spreadsheets.
two persons is an example of
D. graphical programmes.
A. simplex.
B. half duplex.
C. full duplex.
D. automatic.

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21. All of the following are advantages of 26. All of the following are computer
using computing technology in crimes EXCEPT
industries EXCEPT
A. cracking passwords.
A. to cut labour costs. B. encrypting messages.
B. to increase machine C. hacking websites.
dependency. D. sending spam messages.
C. to reduce human efforts.
D. to increase production speed. 27. The underlying protocol used for
accessing World Wide Web is

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22. In banking sector, which of the
following is the major concern A. FTP.

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regarding the use of computers? B. HTTP.
C. SMTP.
A. Data security D. TCP.

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B. Automatic operations

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C. Operational reliability 28. All of the following file formats can

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D. Processing speed be opened in MS Excel EXCEPT

23. Which of the following is used as

electronic pathway for
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B.
exe.
html.
communication among different C. xml.
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components in motherboard? D. xlsx.
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A. Microchip 29. In MS Word, the default page margin

B. Ports for top and bottom edges is
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C. RAM
D. System bus A. 0.5''
B. 0.75''
C. 1''
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24. It is NOT a function of the CPU

registers to D. 1.25''
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A. store address of data or 30. Which of the following file format(s)

instructions to be fetched. can be used for printing a document
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B. store instruction and data in MS Word?

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received from the memory

and sent from the memory. I. Web page
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C. store the result of the last II. Rich text format

III. pdf
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processing step of the ALU.

D. store the user data received
from hard disk. A. II only
B. I and II
25. Which of the following CPU registers C. I and III
is used for temporary storage of the D. II and III
results of mathematical calculations?

A. Accumulator
B. Memory buffer
C. Programme counter
D. Stack

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