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General Programming

Subject : it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Allocate memory when needed and return memory when done: _________ _________






2. ______ must be enclosed within single quotes.






3. The address of a memory location






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






5. Statistical average






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






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






8. Type of control structure: WHILE-DO






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






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






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






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






13. ____________ programming is a deterministic approach to problem solving






14. Part of the program that may be repeated






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






16. The interpretation or meaning of an item.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






29. A fixed position within source code: _________






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






31. Outout and Input are _____






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






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






34. base value of a binary number system?






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






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






37. _________ is when a procedure or function calls itself






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






39. One or more steps are performed repeatedly.






40. ____________ 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).






41. Integer division is denoted by _____






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






43. Type _____ Error: False Negative






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






45. :=? 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.






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






47. 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.






48. The assignment statement is also a ____ statement?






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






50. Type of control structure: CASE