Here are 30 high-weightage Previous Year Questions (PYQs) and Chapter-Wise MCQs for CBSE Class 10 Information Technology (Subject Code 402) covering the entire Digital Documentation (Advanced) unit 1 part b.
🎨 Topic 1: Styles and Formatting
Q1. A _________ is a set of formats that you can apply to selected pages, text, frames, and other elements in your document to quickly change their appearance. [CBSE Board Exam 2023]
a) Template
b) Style
c) Image
d) Graphic
Answer: b) Style
Q2. What happens when you apply a style with an identical name to an existing style in OpenOffice/LibreOffice Writer? [CBSE Question Bank]
a) The software throws an error
b) A new style with a numeric suffix is created
c) The existing style is automatically overwritten
d) The application crashes
Answer: c) The existing style is automatically overwritten
Q3. Which style category includes margins, headers, footers, borders, and backgrounds? [CBSE Board Exam 2024]
a) Character Style
b) Paragraph Style
c) Frame Style
d) Page Style
Answer: d) Page Style
Q4. Font type, font size, bold, and italic formats within a paragraph are controlled by which style? [CBSE Compartment Exam 2022]
a) Cell Style
b) Character Style
c) Paragraph Style
d) Numbering Style
Answer: b) Character Style
Q5. Paragraph styles control all aspects of a paragraph’s appearance except: [CBSE Board Exam 2020]
a) Text alignment
b) Line spacing and tab stops
c) Graphic container wrapping and columns
d) Borders and character formatting
Answer: c) Graphic container wrapping and columns(Managed by Frame Styles)
Q6. Which style category determines the sequence for printing sheets in a spreadsheet program like Calc? [CBSE Additional Practice 2024]
a) Presentation Style
b) Cell Style
c) Page Style
d) Graphics Style
Answer: c) Page Style
Q7. What is the default function key shortcut to open the Styles and Formatting window in the word processor? [CBSE Board Exam 2022]
a) F8
b) F10
c) F11
d) F12
Answer: c) F11
Q8. Which feature is used to apply a style to many different areas quickly without having to go back to the Styles window? [CBSE Board Exam 2023]
a) Format Painter
b) Drag and Drop
c) Fill Format Mode
d) Selection Mode
Answer: c) Fill Format Mode
Q9. When Fill Format Mode is active, which mouse action or key is used to quit or undo a wrong action? [CBSE Sample Question Paper 2023]
a) Double left-click or Enter
b) Right-click or Esc key
c) Scroll click or Backspace
d) Left-click or Alt key
Answer: b) Right-click or Esc key
Q10. We can create new custom styles in OpenOffice Writer using which two methods? [CBSE Board Exam 2025]
a) From selection & Dragging and dropping
b) Using a Wizard & Using a template
c) Copy-paste & Inserting an object
d) None of the above
Answer: a) From selection & Dragging and dropping
📄 Topic 2: Templates
Q11. A _________ is a model or sample fill-in-the-blank document that you use to create other documents. [CBSE Board Exam 2022]
a) Theme
b) Template
c) Style Guide
d) Master Document
Answer: b) Template
Q12. State whether the following statement is True or False: “It is not possible to create a custom default template in a Word processor.” [CBSE Sample Question Paper 2024]
a) True
b) False
Answer: b) False
Q13. What are the two distinct ways supported by the software to create a new template? [CBSE Board Exam 2024]
a) Drag & Drop / Copy-Paste
b) From a document / Using a wizard
c) AutoFormat / Manual Coding
d) Using Extension Manager / From standard gallery
Answer: b) From a document / Using a wizard
Q14. What is the shortcut key to open the Templates dialog box in LibreOffice Writer? [CBSE Question Bank]
a) Ctrl + T
b) Ctrl + Shift + N
c) Alt + Shift + T
d) Ctrl + F11
Answer: b) Ctrl + Shift + N
🖼️ Topic 3: Working with Images and Graphics
Q15. Which of the following options is selected in a word processor for a scaled, proportional resizing of an image? [CBSE Sample Question Paper 2024]
a) Original Size
b) Keep ratio
c) Image Size
d) Relative
Answer: b) Keep ratio
Q16. It is a reference point for the graphics which is created while positioning any image. This point could be the page, frame, paragraph, or character. Name it. [CBSE Board Exam 2023]
a) Wrap Text
b) Alignment
c) Anchoring
d) Bookmark
Answer: c) Anchoring
Q17. Which term refers to the vertical or horizontal placement of a graphic in relation to its chosen anchor point? [CBSE Board Exam 2020]
a) Arrangement
b) Text Wrapping
c) Alignment
d) Cropping
Answer: c) Alignment
Q18. _________ controls how graphics are stacked upon each other or relative to the surrounding text layers along an imaginary vertical axis. [CBSE Board Exam 2022]
a) Alignment
b) Arrangement
c) Anchoring
d) Wrapping
Answer: b) Arrangement
Q19. When you are interested in only a section of the image for the purpose of your document, you use which feature to cut off unwanted parts? [CBSE Board Exam 2024]
a) Filtering
b) Resizing
c) Cropping
d) Compressing
Answer: c) Cropping
Q20. Which image toolbar setting should a student adjust to use a picture as a background watermark so that overlaid text remains readable? [CBSE Board Exam 2025]
a) Gamma
b) Brightness
c) Transparency
d) Contrast
Answer: c) Transparency
Q21. Which filter reverses the color values of a color image or the brightness values of a grayscale image? [CBSE Question Bank]
a) Smooth
b) Sharpen
c) Invert
d) Solarization
Answer: c) Invert
Q22. Which graphic filter reduces the total number of colors used to make a picture look like a painting? [CBSE Additional Practice 2023]
a) Pop Art
b) Mosaic
c) Charcoal
d) Posterize
Answer: d) Posterize
Q23. To increase the edge contrast and clarity of an image, which option is used in a document? [CBSE Board Exam 2023]
a) Smooth
b) Sharpen
c) Invert
d) Relief
Answer: b) Sharpen
✉️ Topic 4: Mail Merge
Q24. The core feature used to send a standard basic form letter to a large number of recipients at the same time is called: [CBSE Board Exam 2022]
a) Bulk Mailer
b) Document Consolidation
c) Mail Merge
d) Macro Recorder
Answer: c) Mail Merge
Q25. Mail Merge combines which two distinct files together to create final output documents? [CBSE Board Exam 2024]
a) Style Template & Main Document
b) Text Document & Image File
c) Main Document & Data Source
d) Layout Blueprint & Table Structure
Answer: c) Main Document & Data Source
Q26. Which file in the mail merge process contains the actual variable contact details, such as names and addresses of recipients? [CBSE Board Exam 2023]
a) Form Document
b) Target Sheet
c) Data Source
d) Main Document
Answer: c) Data Source
Q27. Which of the following database applications can be used to hold or create the Data Source for a Mail Merge? [CBSE Question Bank]
a) MySQL
b) MS-Access
c) OpenOffice Base
d) All of the above
Answer: d) All of the above
📊 Topic 5: Table of Contents (TOC)
Q28. OpenOffice/LibreOffice Writer automatically compiles a Table of Contents using paragraphs that have been formatted with: [CBSE Board Exam 2024]
a) Character Styles
b) Custom Table Formats
c) Default Heading Styles (Heading 1, 2, 3, etc.)
d) Hyperlink Bookmarks
Answer: c) Default Heading Styles (Heading 1, 2, 3, etc.)
Q29. In the Table of Contents structural settings line, what does the token button E# represent? [CBSE Board Exam 2023]
a) The Entry Text
b) The Page Number
c) The Chapter Number
d) The Start of a Hyperlink
Answer: c) The Chapter Number
Q30. In the custom Table of Contents properties, each blank field or block on the Structure line represents what? [CBSE Board Exam 2025]
a) A hidden folder
b) A blank space in the index entry
c) An invalid code token
d) A page break marker
Answer: b) A blank space in the index entry