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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. Quantities whose values do not change during program execution.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






16. Statistics: square root of variance






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






18. :=? 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.






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






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






21. ______ must be enclosed within single quotes.






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






23. A formula developed to solve a problem






24. Integer division is denoted by _____






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






32. ____________ 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).






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






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






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






36. The interpretation or meaning of an item.






37. Outout and Input are _____






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






39. Type of control structure: REPEAT-UNTIL






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






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






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






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






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






46. The assignment statement is also a ____ statement?






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






48. Type of control structure: CASE






49. Type ____ Error: False Positive






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