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General Programming
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Study First
Subject
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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. Type of control structure: REPEAT-UNTIL
Two complements
Iteration
tracepoint
nested
2. Quantities whose values do not change during program execution.
Memory unit
parameter
Replacement
Constants
3. ______ must be enclosed within single quotes.
Output
Iteration
Two complements
String Constants
4. ____________ programming is a deterministic approach to problem solving
end if
false condition
2
linear
5. The grammatical rules of the language.
Output
Files
DIV
Syntax
6. What are Sequence and Selection/Decision and Iteration/Repetition?
Boolean
transitive
control structures
interpreted
7. 16 (0 - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - A(10) - B(11) - C(12) - D(13) - E(14) - F(15)
Hexadecimal base
commutative
MOD
Control unit
8. It is concern with checking that the algorithms and the program meet the problem's specification.
MOD
linear
Validation
Selection algorithm
9. Statistical average
Control unit
syntax
DIV
mean
10. The remainder in a division.
Output
MOD
label
dividend
11. Type of control structure: WHILE-DO
compiled
Constants
Iteration
dual
12. :=? 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.
dual
control structures
Assigment statement
median
13. A _________ is a new way to use breakpoints. It is a breakpoint with a custom action associated with it. When hit it causes the debugger to perform the specified action instead of (or in addition to) breaking program execution.
tracepoint
dynamic allocation
linear
I
14. Each element in an array is identified by a number called a ____________ which designates position in the array
selection
subscript
array
Memory unit
15. Information is placed into a storage location by means of an ____________ statement
label
File
Selection algorithm
assignment
16. A fixed position within source code: _________
mean
Files
interpreted
label
17. ______ must have at least one digit before and at least one digit after the decimal`
Real Constants
applications
Output
pointer
18. Type of control structure: IF-THEN-ELSE
array
String Constants
selection
equal (=)
19. A programming paradigm that uses data structures consisting of datafields and methods together with their interactions - to design applications and computer programs.
selection
algorithm
I
oop
20. A formula developed to solve a problem
Control unit
Logic
algorithm
dynamic allocation
21. ______ causes an advance to a new input line from which subsequent values will be read
ReadLn
recursion
control structures
Time to failure
22. Statistics: square root of variance
Coding
dynamic allocation
pointer
standard deviation
23. ____________ 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).
label
counter
control structures
variance
24. Statistical middle
standard deviation
assignment
median
Selection algorithm
25. ____________ property: you can change the order of the numbers involved without changing the result
commutative
MOD
Coding
File
26. A _________ is an intentional stopping or pausing place in a program - put in place for debugging purposes.
breakpoint
oop
Identifiers
semantics
27. Zero sum game theory problems can be solved by means of ____________ programming
associative
loop
Binary scheme mean
linear
28. An _________ language is a programming language where the programs written in that language are not translated or "compiled" into the machine code of the computer it is on - which then is directly executed by the host CPU but instead is indirectly ex
interpreted
control structures
selection
Hexadecimal base
29. The assignment statement is also a ____ statement?
parameter
counter
Replacement
2
30. A system in which negative numbers are represented by the two's complement of the absolute value.
Two complements
File
Syntax
commutative
31. Helpful debugging aids for _________ errors: control totals or control breaks or trace routines
logic
quotient
Hexadecimal base
Constants
32. Any number that does not have a decimal in it.
Memory unit
semantics
Integer
subscript
33. It fetches the instructions from the memory and decodes them and and directs the system to execute the operations indicated by the instructions.
Coding
VAR
dividend
Control unit
34. The place where the instructions and data are stored.
parameter
associative
Memory unit
program composition
35. A variable which will keep track of the number of occurrences of a certain transaction
dividend
Real Constants
counter
CPU (Central Processing Unit)
36. _________ is when a procedure or function calls itself
recursion
Input
Integer
Control unit
37. ____________ / divisor = quotient
dividend
dynamic allocation
Hexadecimal base
recursion
38. Allocate memory when needed and return memory when done: _________ _________
Real numbers
String Constants
Validation
dynamic allocation
39. In a _________ language the entire program is converted to binary prior to the execution of the program
Input
compiled
recursion
Constants
40. A variable that can hold a single true/false (1/0) value.
Boolean
loop
compiled
Repetition algorithm
41. Type of control structure: LOOP
Octal base
Iteration
logic
assignment
42. The process of implementing in some programming language the variables (and structures) used to store the data and the algorithms for solving a problem.
quotient
Coding
Time to failure
DIV
43. Integer division is denoted by _____
Selection algorithm
DIV
ReadLn
algorithm
44. ____________ property: you can group numbers in any way without changing the answer
associative
selection
Binary scheme mean
dividend
45. Examples of _____ are: integer and real and true and false and read and readln and write and writeln.
2
equal (=)
Identifiers
tracepoint
46. for an "if" statement some languages require and "____________ _______" to close the selection group
constraints
Logic
label
end if
47. Any collection of data to be input to a program or output from a program.
Iteration
parameter
Boolean
File
48. Type of error: A violation of rules made by the programmer
standard deviation
program composition
syntax
Constants
49. The interpretation or meaning of an item.
compiled
standard deviation
semantics
control structures
50. A reserved word for variable.
counter
VAR
syntax
Constants