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General Programming

Subject : it-skills
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. ____________ programming is a deterministic approach to problem solving






2. Statistical middle






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






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






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






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






7. Type _____ Error: False Negative






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






9. Integer division is denoted by _____






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






11. The grammatical rules of the language.






12. ____________ / divisor = quotient






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






14. base value of a binary number system?






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






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






17. In a linear programming problem there are always ____________






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






19. Type ____ Error: False Positive






20. The address of a memory location






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






22. 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






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






24. A reserved word for variable.






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






26. ______ must be enclosed within single quotes.






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






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






29. ____________ 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).






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






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






32. Statistical average






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






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






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






36. Type of control structure: LOOP






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






38. The assignment statement is also a ____ statement?






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






40. Type of control structure: WHILE-DO






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






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






43. A fixed position within source code: _________






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






45. 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.






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






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






48. The remainder in a division.






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






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