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General Programming

Subject : it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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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. Examples of _____ are: integer and real and true and false and read and readln and write and writeln.






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






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






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






5. Type of control structure: REPEAT-UNTIL






6. for an "if" statement some languages require and "____________ _______" to close the selection group






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






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






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






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






11. Integer division is denoted by _____






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






13. Type _____ Error: False Negative






14. Type of control structure: CASE






15. The grammatical rules of the language.






16. Type of control structure: WHILE-DO






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






18. Statistical average






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






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






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






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






23. :=? 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.






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






25. ____________ programming is a deterministic approach to problem solving






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






27. ____________ / divisor = quotient






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






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






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






31. A reserved word for variable.






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






33. ____________ 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).






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






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






36. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






43. base value of a binary number system?






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






45. Outout and Input are _____






46. In a linear programming problem there are always ____________






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






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






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






50. The remainder in a division.