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General Programming

Subject : it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. for an "if" statement some languages require and "____________ _______" to close the selection group






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






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






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






5. ____________ 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).






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






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






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






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






10. ______ must be enclosed within single quotes.






11. The address of a memory location






12. _________ is when a procedure or function calls itself






13. Each element in an array is identified by a number called a ____________ which designates position in the array






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






15. A formula developed to solve a problem






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






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






18. 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.






19. The remainder in a division.






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






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






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






23. In a linear programming problem there are always ____________






24. dividend / _____________ = quotient






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






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






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






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






29. Type ____ Error: False Positive






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






31. The steps are performed in a strictly sequential manner - each step being executed exactly once.






32. Statistics: square root of variance






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






34. Type _____ Error: False Negative






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






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






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






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






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






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






41. The assignment statement is also a ____ statement?






42. ____________ / divisor = quotient






43. Type of control structure: WHILE-DO






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






45. ____________ programming is a deterministic approach to problem solving






46. A fixed position within source code: _________






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






48. One or more steps are performed repeatedly.






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






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