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General Programming

Subject : it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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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. ____________ 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).






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






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






4. ______ must be enclosed within single quotes.






5. The remainder in a division.






6. Type of control structure: LOOP






7. ____________ / divisor = quotient






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






9. Type _____ Error: False Negative






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






11. 8 (0 - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7)






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






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






14. Type of control structure: WHILE-DO






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 formula developed to solve a problem






18. Part of the program that may be repeated






19. ____________ property: says that if a = b and b = c then a = c.






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






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






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. base value of a binary number system?






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






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






26. The assignment statement is also a ____ statement?






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






28. Integer division is denoted by _____






29. 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.






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






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






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






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






34. 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.






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






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






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






38. Type ____ Error: False Positive






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






40. One or more steps are performed repeatedly.






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






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






43. The interpretation or meaning of an item.






44. :=? 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.






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






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






47. Type of control structure: REPEAT-UNTIL






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






49. Statistics: square root of variance






50. dividend / _____________ = quotient