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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. A reserved word for variable.






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






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






4. Part of the program that may be repeated






5. Statistics: square root of variance






6. The assignment statement is also a ____ statement?






7. The remainder in a division.






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






9. base value of a binary number system?






10. ______ must be enclosed within single quotes.






11. 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.






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






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






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






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






16. A formula developed to solve a problem






17. Type ____ Error: False Positive






18. Statistical average






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






26. _________ is when a procedure or function calls itself






27. In a linear programming problem there are always ____________






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






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






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






31. The interpretation or meaning of an item.






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






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






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






35. Type of control structure: WHILE-DO






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






37. dividend / divisor = _______________






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






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






40. Type of control structure: CASE






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






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






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






44. 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






45. The grammatical rules of the language.






46. Statistical middle






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






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






49. Outout and Input are _____






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