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






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






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






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






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






6. In a linear programming problem there are always ____________






7. ____________ 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).






8. A formula developed to solve a problem






9. Type of control structure: LOOP






10. Statistics: square root of variance






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






12. _________ is when a procedure or function calls itself






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






14. :=? 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.






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






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






17. Type ____ Error: False Positive






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






19. base value of a binary number system?






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






27. Statistical average






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






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






31. 16 (0 - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - A(10) - B(11) - C(12) - D(13) - E(14) - F(15)






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






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






34. Type of control structure: WHILE-DO






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






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






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






38. The interpretation or meaning of an item.






39. Outout and Input are _____






40. The remainder in a division.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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