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






2. Integer division is denoted by _____






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






4. Type of control structure: WHILE-DO






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






6. :=? 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.






7. ______ must be enclosed within single quotes.






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






9. The interpretation or meaning of an item.






10. Statistical middle






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






12. ____________ / divisor = quotient






13. 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.






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






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






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






17. Statistics: square root of variance






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






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






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






21. 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






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






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






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






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






26. A reserved word for variable.






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






28. The assignment statement is also a ____ statement?






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






30. Type of control structure: CASE






31. Part of the program that may be repeated






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






33. dividend / _____________ = quotient






34. One or more steps are performed repeatedly.






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






36. In a linear programming problem there are always ____________






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






38. ____________ 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).






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






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






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






42. 16 (0 - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - A(10) - B(11) - C(12) - D(13) - E(14) - F(15)






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






50. ____________ programming is a deterministic approach to problem solving