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






2. Statistical middle






3. Type of control structure: CASE






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






5. 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.






6. The grammatical rules of the language.






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






8. Part of the program that may be repeated






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






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






11. The assignment statement is also a ____ statement?






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






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






14. Type ____ Error: False Positive






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






16. A fixed position within source code: _________






17. dividend / _____________ = quotient






18. 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.






19. The address of a memory location






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






21. In a linear programming problem there are always ____________






22. ____________ 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).






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






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






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






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






27. Type _____ Error: False Negative






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






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






30. base value of a binary number system?






31. 8 (0 - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7)






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






33. A formula developed to solve a problem






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






35. Type of control structure: WHILE-DO






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






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






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






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






40. Outout and Input are _____






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






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






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






44. Type of control structure: REPEAT-UNTIL






45. dividend / divisor = _______________






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






47. The interpretation or meaning of an item.






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






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






50. Type of control structure: LOOP