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General Programming

Subject : it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Type of control structure: CASE






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






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






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






5. It is concern with checking that the algorithms and the program meet the problem's specification.






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






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






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






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






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






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






12. Type ____ Error: False Positive






13. Integer division is denoted by _____






14. _________ is when a procedure or function calls itself






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






16. It allocates storage for programs and data and carry out many other supervisory functions. It acts as an interface between the user and the machine.






17. Statistical middle






18. ____________ 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).






19. Outout and Input are _____






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






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






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






23. The interpretation or meaning of an item.






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






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






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






27. One or more steps are performed repeatedly.






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






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






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






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






32. Part of the program that may be repeated






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






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






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






36. ____________ / divisor = quotient






37. 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.






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






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






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






41. A reserved word for variable.






42. dividend / divisor = _______________






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






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






45. ______ must be enclosed within single quotes.






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






47. 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






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






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






50. A formula developed to solve a problem