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General Programming

Subject : it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A _________ is an intentional stopping or pausing place in a program - put in place for debugging purposes.






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






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






4. The process of implementing in some programming language the variables (and structures) used to store the data and the algorithms for solving a problem.






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






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






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






8. base value of a binary number system?






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






10. _________ is when a procedure or function calls itself






11. Type of control structure: CASE






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






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






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






15. :=? 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.






16. Type _____ Error: False Negative






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






18. Type of control structure: WHILE-DO






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






20. 8 (0 - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7)






21. The address of a memory location






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






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






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






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






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






27. Part of the program that may be repeated






28. The remainder in a division.






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






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






31. ____________ 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).






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






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






34. ____________ / divisor = quotient






35. ____________ programming is a deterministic approach to problem solving






36. 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.






37. A reserved word for variable.






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






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






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






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






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






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






44. dividend / divisor = _______________






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






46. The grammatical rules of the language.






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






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






49. ______ must be enclosed within single quotes.






50. A formula developed to solve a problem