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






2. A reserved word for variable.






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






4. The grammatical rules of the language.






5. It is concern with checking that the algorithms and the program meet the problem's specification.






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






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






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






9. A fixed position within source code: _________






10. One or more steps are performed repeatedly.






11. Type of control structure: LOOP






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






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






14. The assignment statement is also a ____ statement?






15. Statistical average






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






17. ____________ programming is a deterministic approach to problem solving






18. 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






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






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






21. dividend / _____________ = quotient






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






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






24. Statistical middle






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






26. Type of control structure: REPEAT-UNTIL






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






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






29. Type of control structure: WHILE-DO






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






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






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






33. 16 (0 - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - A(10) - B(11) - C(12) - D(13) - E(14) - F(15)






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






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






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






37. The steps are performed in a strictly sequential manner - each step being executed exactly once.






38. ______ must be enclosed within single quotes.






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






40. base value of a binary number system?






41. 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.






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






43. Part of the program that may be repeated






44. ____________ / divisor = quotient






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






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






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






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






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






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