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General Programming

Subject : it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Any collection of data to be input to a program or output from a program.






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






3. The grammatical rules of the language.






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






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






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






7. Statistics: square root of variance






8. In a linear programming problem there are always ____________






9. 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.






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






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






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






13. :=? 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.






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






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






16. dividend / _____________ = quotient






17. Type _____ Error: False Negative






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






25. The remainder in a division.






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






27. 8 (0 - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7)






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






29. Statistical middle






30. dividend / divisor = _______________






31. ____________ 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).






32. A formula developed to solve a problem






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






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






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






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






37. Outout and Input are _____






38. Type of control structure: LOOP






39. Type ____ Error: False Positive






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






41. Type of control structure: CASE






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






43. Statistical average






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






45. 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.






46. A reserved word for variable.






47. Integer division is denoted by _____






48. ____________ / divisor = quotient






49. Type of control structure: REPEAT-UNTIL






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