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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. The address of a memory location






2. Part of the program that may be repeated






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






4. ______ must be enclosed within single quotes.






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






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






7. In a linear programming problem there are always ____________






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






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






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






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






12. The grammatical rules of the language.






13. Outout and Input are _____






14. Type of control structure: CASE






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






16. dividend / divisor = _______________






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






18. ____________ programming is a deterministic approach to problem solving






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






20. Integer division is denoted by _____






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






22. The remainder in a division.






23. One or more steps are performed repeatedly.






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






25. The assignment statement is also a ____ statement?






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






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






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. A formula developed to solve a problem






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






37. Type of control structure: REPEAT-UNTIL






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






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






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






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






42. A fixed position within source code: _________






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






44. A reserved word for variable.






45. The interpretation or meaning of an item.






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






47. Type ____ Error: False Positive






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






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






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