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General Programming

Subject : it-skills
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Zero sum game theory problems can be solved by means of ____________ programming






2. base value of a binary number system?






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






4. The address of a memory location






5. _________ is when a procedure or function calls itself






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






7. dividend / _____________ = quotient






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






9. Type of control structure: WHILE-DO






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






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






12. Type of control structure: CASE






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






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






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






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






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






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






19. 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






20. 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.






21. ______ must be enclosed within single quotes.






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






23. One or more steps are performed repeatedly.






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






25. The grammatical rules of the language.






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






27. Outout and Input are _____






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






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






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






31. Type of control structure: LOOP






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






33. Statistical average






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






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






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






37. Type _____ Error: False Negative






38. The remainder in a division.






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






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






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






42. dividend / divisor = _______________






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






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






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






46. Statistics: square root of variance






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






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






49. :=? 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.






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