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Conditional Programming

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Answer 36 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Use a ______ loop when you always want the task to be performed at least one time regardless of whether it is true or false
Do-While
Do-Until
inner loop
Increasing

2. Statements that appear on the lines between the start and end clauses
counter variable
Do-while
Condition controlled loop
body of a loop

3. An ______ goes through all of its iterations for every single outer loop iteration
repetition structure
post test loop
inner loop
Do-while

4. The _____ loop iterates until a condition is true (as long as the condition is false)
infinite loop
Test action
repetition structure
Do-Until

5. A loop type that repeats a specific number of times
Do-While
count controlled loop
Do-Until
Accumulator

6. Use a ________ loop when you want to perform a task until the condition is true
count controlled loop
repetition structure
Initialization action
Do-Until

7. A _____________ loop will always perform at least one iteration even if the condition is false to begin with.
Do-While loop
Condition controlled loop
step amount
while loop

8. It is _______ to write a count controlled While or Do-While or Do-Until loop
repetition structure
impossible
For
body of a loop

9. A ______ loop will not execute unless a condition is true
impossible
Do-While
While
While loop

10. Use a _____ loop where where the condition may be false to start with and you do NOT want the loop to iterate
Do-While
Do-until
Nested loop
Test action

11. A loop that is inside of another loop - e.g. A clock: Hours and minutes and seconds--3 loops in one location
Initialization action
Nested loop
counter variable
repetition structure

12. A counter that stores the number of iterations that it has performed
Test action
counter variable
count controlled loop
infinite loop

13. Each execution of the body of a loop
increment
infinite loop
loop iteration
running total

14. A loop that tests its condition BEFORE performing an iteration - e.g. while loop
For
Do-until
pretest loop
Sentinel

15. ______ the value during each iteration is the Increment action in a count controlled loop
Sentinel
while loop
running total
Increasing

16. A Do-While loop can always be written in the form of __________ loop
repetition structure
post test loop
Do-Until
While loop

17. The name of the running total variable - the first step in a flowchart for a running total is to set the accumulator to 0
infinite loop
loop iteration
Accumulator
While

18. The loop(s) that cause a statement to repeat until a condition is true
inner loop
While
increment
Do-until

19. A loop that performs an iteration before testing its condition - e.g. Do-While and Do-Until
pretest loop
post test loop
Initialization action
Nested loop

20. While and _____ are loop(s) that cause a statement to repeat as long as a condition is true
Do-while
Do-Until
Initialization action
Nested loop

21. A special value that marks the end of a list of values. Useful when processing a long list of values with a loop
Do-until
inner loop
Sentinel
For

22. Condition controlled and _______ are 2 categories of loops
Do-Until
count controlled
loop iteration
While

23. The amount by which the counter variable is incremented in a For loop
repetition structure
step amount
Do-Until
Nested loop

24. The _____ statement is specifically designed to initialize and test and increment a counter variable
infinite loop
Do-While loop
For
Test action

25. The ________ in a count controlled loop: Before the loop begins the counter variable is initialized to a starting value
impossible
Initialization action
For
body of a loop

26. A loop that continues to repeat until the program is interrupted - always avoid using this
Do-Until
repetition structure
infinite loop
While

27. Causes a statement or set of statements to execute repeatedly
pretest loop
Do-while
Do-until
repetition structure

28. A loop that iterates a specific number of times
Do-While loop
Accumulator
a count controlled loop
Do-Until

29. A _______ will not run unless the condition is true
while loop
increment
Sentinel
For

30. Using the counter variable a count controlled loop performs Initialization and test and _______
Do-While loop
Do-Until
increment
While

31. loop Anexample of a count controlled loop
body of a loop
pretest loop
For
post test loop

32. The ______ in a count controlled loop is:The loop tests the counter variable by comparing it to a maximum value. If the counter variable is less than or equal to the max value the loop iterates
running total
Accumulator
For
Test action

33. In the _______ 1) A condition is tested for a true/false value and then 2) A statement or set of statements is repeated as long as the condition is true
Nested loop
While loop
pretest loop
infinite loop

34. The three types of condition controlled loops are: While and Do-While and ______
Do-Until
body of a loop
inner loop
count controlled

35. A loop type that uses a true/false condition to control the number of times it repeats
increment
repetition structure
Condition controlled loop
Increasing

36. A sum of numbers that accumulates with each iteration of a loop
running total
a count controlled loop
repetition structure
while loop