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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. Type of control structure: CASE






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






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






4. _________ is when a procedure or function calls itself






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






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






7. The remainder in a division.






8. One or more steps are performed repeatedly.






9. Type of control structure: WHILE-DO






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






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






12. ____________ programming is a deterministic approach to problem solving






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






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






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






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






17. 8 (0 - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7)






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






19. ____________ / divisor = quotient






20. Statistical middle






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






22. A fixed position within source code: _________






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






24. The address of a memory location






25. ____________ 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).






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






27. The assignment statement is also a ____ statement?






28. 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.






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






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






31. It controls the operation of the entire system and performs the arithmetic and logic operations and and stores and retrieves instructions and data.






32. dividend / _____________ = quotient






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






34. Type _____ Error: False Negative






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






36. Integer division is denoted by _____






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






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






39. Outout and Input are _____






40. dividend / divisor = _______________






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






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






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






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






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






46. :=? 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.






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






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






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






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