CBSE Class 11 Informatics Practices Syllabus for academic session 2026-27
This page contains the CBSE Class 11 Informatics Practices syllabus for the academic session 2026-27, as prescribed by CBSE curriculum.
1. Prerequisite: None
2. Learning Outcomes
At the end of this course, students will be able to:
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Identify the components of computer system.
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Create Python programs using different data types, lists and dictionaries.
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Understand database concepts and Relational Database Management Systems.
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Retrieve and manipulate data in RDBMS using Structured Query Language
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Identify the Emerging trends in the fields of Information Technology.
3. Distribution of Marks and Periods
Unit No
Unit Name
Marks
1
Introduction to computer system
10
2
Introduction to Python
25
3
Database concepts and the Structured Query Language
30
4
Introduction to Emerging Trends
5
Practical
30
Total
100
Unit Wise syllabus
Unit 1: Introduction to Computer System
Introduction to computer and computing: evolution of computing devices, components of a computer system and their interconnections, Input/output devices.
Computer Memory: Units of memory, types of memory – primary and secondary, data deletion, its recovery and related security concerns.
Software: purpose and types – system and application software, generic and specific purpose software.
Unit 2: Introduction to Python
Basics of Python programming, execution modes: – interactive and script mode, the structure of a program, indentation, identifiers, keywords, constants, variables, types of operator, precedence of operators, data types, mutable and immutable data types, statements, expression evaluation, comments, input and output statements, data type conversion, debugging.
Control Statements: if-else, if-elif-else, while loop, for loop
Lists: list operations – creating, initializing, traversing and manipulating lists, list methods and built-in functions – len(),list(),append(),insert(), count(),index(),remove(), pop(), reverse(), sort(), min(),max(),sum()
Dictionary: concept of key-value pair, creating, initializing, traversing, updating and deleting elements, dictionary methods and built-in functions – dict(), len(), keys(), values(), items(), update(), del(), clear()
Introduction to NumPy: Introduction, Creation of NumPy Arrays from List
Unit 3: Database concepts and the Structured Query Language
Database Concepts: Introduction to database concepts and its need, Database Management System.
Relational data model: Concept of domain, tuple, relation, candidate key, primary key, alternate key
Advantages of using Structured Query Language, Data Definition Language, Data Query Language and Data Manipulation Language, Introduction to MySQL, creating a database using MySQL, Data Types
Data Definition: CREATE DATABASE, CREATE TABLE, DROP, ALTER
Data Query: SELECT, FROM, WHERE with relational operators, BETWEEN, logical operators, IS NULL, IS NOT NULL
Data Manipulation: INSERT, DELETE,UPDATE
Unit 4: Introduction to the Emerging Trends
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Immersive experience (AR, VR), Robotics, Big data and its characteristics, Internet of Things (IoT), Sensors, Smart cities, Cloud Computing and Cloud Services (SaaS, IaaS, PaaS); Grid Computing, Block chain technology.
Practical Marks Distribution
S.No.
Unit Name
Marks
1
Problem solving using Python programming language
11
2
Creating database using MySQL and performing Queries
7
3
Practical file (minimum of 14 python programs, and 14 SQL queries)
7
4
Viva-Voce
5
Total
30
Suggested Practical List
1
Programming in Python
1.
To find average and grade for given marks.
2.
To find sale price of an item with given cost and discount (%).
3.
To calculate perimeter/circumference and area of shapes such as triangle, rectangle, square and circle.
4.
To calculate Simple and Compound interest.
5.
To calculate profit-loss for given Cost and Sell Price.
6.
To calculate EMI for Amount, Period and Interest.
7.
To calculate tax – GST / Income Tax.
8.
To find the largest and smallest numbers in a list.
9.
To find the third largest/smallest number in a list.
10.
To find the sum of squares of the first 100 natural numbers.
11.
To print the first ‘n’ multiples of given number.
12.
To count the number of vowels in user entered string.
13.
To print the words starting with an alphabet in a user entered string.
14.
To print number of occurrences of a given alphabet in each string.
15.
Create a dictionary to store names of states and their capitals.
16.
Create a dictionary of students to store names and marks obtained in 5 subjects.
17.
To print the highest and lowest values in the dictionary.
2
Data Management: SQL Commands
1.
To create a database
2.
To create student table with the student id, class, section, gender, name, dob, and marks as attributes where the student id is the primary key.
3.
To insert the details of at least 10 students in the above table.
4.
To display the entire content of table.
5.
To display Rno, Name and Marks of those students who are scoring marks more than 50.
6.
To display Rno, Name, DOB of those students who are born between ‘2005- 01-01’ and ‘2005-12-31’.
Suggested material
NCERT Informatics Practices – Text book for class – XI (ISBN- 978-93-5292-148-5)