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General Programming

Subject : it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A _________ is a group of instructions within a computer program that performs a specific function.






2. ____________ / divisor = quotient






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






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






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






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






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






8. In a _________ language the entire program is converted to binary prior to the execution of the program






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






10. In a linear programming problem there are always ____________






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






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






13. In Linear Programming a _________ is a means for simplifying the solution






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






15. The person responsible for programming applications such as payroll or inventory or accounts receivable etc is the _________ programmer






16. Examples of _____ are: integer and real and true and false and read and readln and write and writeln.






17. Type of control structure: CASE






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






19. Type of control structure: REPEAT-UNTIL






20. A variable which will keep track of the number of occurrences of a certain transaction






21. Statistics: square root of variance






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






23. ______ causes an advance to a new input line from which subsequent values will be read






24. A programming paradigm that uses data structures consisting of datafields and methods together with their interactions - to design applications and computer programs.






25. In Linear Programming ____________ variables are used to convert inequalities to equalities






26. ____________ 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).






27. Integer division is denoted by _____






28. ____________ property: you can change the order of the numbers involved without changing the result






29. The address of a memory location






30. The information that is given and which items are important in solving the problem.






31. The remainder in a division.






32. _________ is when a procedure or function calls itself






33. A formula developed to solve a problem






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






35. In constant declarations to associate an identifier with a constant an sign is used






36. ______ must be enclosed within single quotes.






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






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






39. Type _____ Error: False Negative






40. One or more steps are performed repeatedly.






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






42. dividend / _____________ = quotient






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






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






45. base value of a binary number system?






46. A system in which negative numbers are represented by the two's complement of the absolute value.






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






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






49. A fixed position within source code: _________






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