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General Programming

Subject : it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. :=? 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.






2. Statistical average






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






4. A reserved word for variable.






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






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






7. In a linear programming problem there are always ____________






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






9. ______ must be enclosed within single quotes.






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






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






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






13. 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.






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






15. Statistics: square root of variance






16. The grammatical rules of the language.






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






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






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






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






21. The remainder in a division.






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






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






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






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






26. _________ is when a procedure or function calls itself






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






28. 16 (0 - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - A(10) - B(11) - C(12) - D(13) - E(14) - F(15)






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






30. dividend / _____________ = quotient






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






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






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






34. Type ____ Error: False Positive






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






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






37. One or more steps are performed repeatedly.






38. A formula developed to solve a problem






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






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






41. The assignment statement is also a ____ statement?






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






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






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






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






46. Type of control structure: CASE






47. Part of the program that may be repeated






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






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






50. Type _____ Error: False Negative