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General Programming

Subject : it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Part of the program that may be repeated






2. Program Heading - Declaration Part (Label section - constant section - type section - variable section - subprogram section).






3. Outout and Input are _____






4. It is concern with checking that the algorithms and the program meet the problem's specification.






5. A fixed position within source code: _________






6. ______ must have at least one digit before and at least one digit after the decimal`






7. _________ error: The program performs a task but it is not the task that was desired






8. Item of information necessary for a program or subprogram to perform its task.






9. dividend / _____________ = quotient






10. Numbers that contain decimal points - can be any number including decimal numbers. Can be expressed as a scientific notation.






11. Type of control structure: LOOP






12. A _________ is an intentional stopping or pausing place in a program - put in place for debugging purposes.






13. Statistics: square root of variance






14. The address of a memory location






15. Type ____ Error: False Positive






16. It is used to predicts the circuit's lifetime.






17. The grammatical rules of the language.






18. Type of control structure: CASE






19. It fetches the instructions from the memory and decodes them and and directs the system to execute the operations indicated by the instructions.






20. base value of a binary number system?






21. An effective method for solving a problem using a finite sequence of instructions.






22. ____________ / divisor = quotient






23. One of a number of alternative actions is selected and executed.






24. Helpful debugging aids for _________ errors: control totals or control breaks or trace routines






25. Type of control structure: IF-THEN-ELSE






26. The interpretation or meaning of an item.






27. Quantities whose values do not change during program execution.






28. Zero sum game theory problems can be solved by means of ____________ programming






29. The process of implementing in some programming language the variables (and structures) used to store the data and the algorithms for solving a problem.






30. A string _________ is the operation of joining two character strings end to end.






31. ____________ is a measure of the amount of variation within the values of that variable taking account of all possible values and their probabilities or weightings (not just the extremes which give the range).






32. Type of error: A violation of rules made by the programmer






33. Fixed number of similar data elements - each element can be retrieved through an index.






34. The number of times a number goes into a divisor.






35. _________ is when a procedure or function calls itself






36. One or more steps are performed repeatedly.






37. Allocate memory when needed and return memory when done: _________ _________






38. A variable that can hold a single true/false (1/0) value.






39. A ____________ procedure is one in which a statement or set of statements are embedded within other statements






40. ____________ property: says that if a = b and b = c then a = c.






41. It controls the operation of the entire system and performs the arithmetic and logic operations and and stores and retrieves instructions and data.






42. The information that is produced to solve the problem.






43. Any number that does not have a decimal in it.






44. Integer division is denoted by _____






45. Any collection of data to be input to a program or output from a program.






46. Information is placed into a storage location by means of an ____________ statement






47. :=? is an ________. Here the varaible to be assigned a value must appear on the left of the assignment operator and a legal expression must appear on the right side.






48. Statistical average






49. ______ must be enclosed within single quotes.






50. It allocates storage for programs and data and carry out many other supervisory functions. It acts as an interface between the user and the machine.