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General Programming

Subject : 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. Statistical average






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






10. Integer division is denoted by _____






11. ____________ programming is a deterministic approach to problem solving






12. The address of a memory location






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






14. A formula developed to solve a problem






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






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






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






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






19. Type of control structure: WHILE-DO






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






21. The interpretation or meaning of an item.






22. :=? 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.






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






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






25. Statistics: square root of variance






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






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






28. Outout and Input are _____






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






30. _________ is when a procedure or function calls itself






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






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






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






34. Type of control structure: LOOP






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






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






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






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






39. 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.






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






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






42. The assignment statement is also a ____ statement?






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






44. 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






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






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






47. Type of control structure: CASE






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. The grammatical rules of the language.






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