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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. The interpretation or meaning of an item.






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






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






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






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






6. The assignment statement is also a ____ statement?






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






8. In a linear programming problem there are always ____________






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






10. Type of control structure: LOOP






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






12. Integer division is denoted by _____






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






14. ____________ 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).






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






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






17. A formula developed to solve a problem






18. 8 (0 - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7)






19. dividend / _____________ = quotient






20. Statistical average






21. Outout and Input are _____






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






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






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






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






26. Type of control structure: REPEAT-UNTIL






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






28. The remainder in a division.






29. The address of a memory location






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






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






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






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






34. ______ must be enclosed within single quotes.






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






36. 16 (0 - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - A(10) - B(11) - C(12) - D(13) - E(14) - F(15)






37. Type of control structure: CASE






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






39. ____________ / divisor = quotient






40. :=? 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.






41. Statistical middle






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






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






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






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






46. ____________ programming is a deterministic approach to problem solving






47. base value of a binary number system?






48. Type of control structure: WHILE-DO






49. 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.






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