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General Programming

Subject : it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The number of times a number goes into a divisor.






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






3. The address of a memory location






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






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






6. The assignment statement is also a ____ statement?






7. 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.






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






9. VAR and BEGIN and END are examples of _____ .






10. What are Sequence and Selection/Decision and Iteration/Repetition?






11. Type of control structure: CASE






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






13. Statistical average






14. A reserved word for variable.






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






16. In a loop while construct the loop will be terminated upon the introduction of a ____________ ____________






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






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






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






20. Integer division is denoted by _____






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






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






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






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






25. ______ must be enclosed within single quotes.






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






27. 16 (0 - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - A(10) - B(11) - C(12) - D(13) - E(14) - F(15)






28. Type of control structure: REPEAT-UNTIL






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






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






31. The interpretation or meaning of an item.






32. In algebraic expression the name of the storage location in which the result would be saved is expressed as ____________ .






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






34. for an "if" statement some languages require and "____________ _______" to close the selection group






35. In a linear programming problem there are always ____________






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






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






38. base value of a binary number system?






39. Type ____ Error: False Positive






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






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






42. A fixed position within source code: _________






43. ____________ / divisor = quotient






44. One or more steps are performed repeatedly.






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






46. Type _____ Error: False Negative






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






48. ____________ 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).






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






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