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General Programming

Subject : it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. One or more steps are performed repeatedly.






2. ____________ property: you can group numbers in any way without changing the answer






3. Statistics: square root of variance






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






5. The grammatical rules of the language.






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






7. Type of control structure: LOOP






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






9. ____________ / divisor = quotient






10. Using only the two binary digits (bits) 0 and 1 to represent information in a computer.






11. The place where the instructions and data are stored.






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






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






14. Type of control structure: CASE






15. 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






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






17. base value of a binary number system?






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






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






20. In a linear programming problem there are always ____________






21. Statistical average






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






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






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






25. The remainder in a division.






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






27. A fixed position within source code: _________






28. ____________ 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).






29. ____________ programming is a deterministic approach to problem solving






30. dividend / _____________ = quotient






31. 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.






32. Part of the program that may be repeated






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






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






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






36. Type of control structure: REPEAT-UNTIL






37. ______ must be enclosed within single quotes.






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






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






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






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






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






43. Outout and Input are _____






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






45. Type ____ Error: False Positive






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






47. A formula developed to solve a problem






48. A _________ is a group of instructions within a computer program that performs a specific function.






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






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