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General Programming

Subject : it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Program Heading - Declaration Part (Label section - constant section - type section - variable section - subprogram section).






2. One or more steps are performed repeatedly.






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






4. ____________ programming is a deterministic approach to problem solving






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






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






7. _________ is when a procedure or function calls itself






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






9. Type of control structure: WHILE-DO






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






11. ____________ / divisor = quotient






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






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






14. The interpretation or meaning of an item.






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






16. 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






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






18. A formula developed to solve a problem






19. Type of control structure: REPEAT-UNTIL






20. A reserved word for variable.






21. Type ____ Error: False Positive






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






23. Statistical middle






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






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






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






27. Statistical average






28. ____________ 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).






29. Type _____ Error: False Negative






30. dividend / divisor = _______________






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






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






33. Type of control structure: CASE






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






35. Statistics: square root of variance






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






37. The grammatical rules of the language.






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






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






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






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






42. The address of a memory location






43. A fixed position within source code: _________






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






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






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






48. Part of the program that may be repeated






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






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