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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. _________ is when a procedure or function calls itself






2. Statistical average






3. ____________ programming is a deterministic approach to problem solving






4. Type _____ Error: False Negative






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






6. The grammatical rules of the language.






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






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






9. 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






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






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






12. base value of a binary number system?






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






14. ____________ 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).






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






16. 8 (0 - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7)






17. Type of control structure: LOOP






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






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






20. ______ must be enclosed within single quotes.






21. The address of a memory location






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






23. Type of control structure: WHILE-DO






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






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






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






27. The assignment statement is also a ____ statement?






28. In a linear programming problem there are always ____________






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






30. The remainder in a division.






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






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






33. dividend / divisor = _______________






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






35. dividend / _____________ = quotient






36. ____________ / divisor = quotient






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






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






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






40. A fixed position within source code: _________






41. Type ____ Error: False Positive






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






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






44. 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.






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






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






47. 16 (0 - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - A(10) - B(11) - C(12) - D(13) - E(14) - F(15)






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






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






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