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General Programming

Subject : it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The assignment statement is also a ____ statement?






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






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






4. ____________ / divisor = quotient






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






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






7. The interpretation or meaning of an item.






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






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






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






11. Type ____ Error: False Positive






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






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






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






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






16. ____________ 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).






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






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






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






20. Type of control structure: CASE






21. Type of control structure: WHILE-DO






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






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






24. Statistical middle






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






26. One or more steps are performed repeatedly.






27. Type of control structure: REPEAT-UNTIL






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






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






30. In a linear programming problem there are always ____________






31. ______ must be enclosed within single quotes.






32. dividend / _____________ = quotient






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






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






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






36. for an "if" statement some languages require and "____________ _______" to close the selection group






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






38. The remainder in a division.






39. :=? 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.






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






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






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






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






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






46. The grammatical rules of the language.






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






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






49. Integer division is denoted by _____






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