CBSE Class 11 Informatics Practices Syllabus for Board Exam 2026-27, Download PDF Here

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 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.

CBSE Class 11 Informatics Practices Syllabus 2026-27 Download PDF

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