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General Programming

Subject : it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. ______ causes an advance to a new input line from which subsequent values will be read






2. Type of control structure: LOOP






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






10. 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.






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






12. Outout and Input are _____






13. Zero sum game theory problems can be solved by means of ____________ programming






14. The address of a memory location






15. Type of control structure: CASE






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






17. The interpretation or meaning of an item.






18. ____________ / divisor = quotient






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






20. ____________ 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).






21. One or more steps are performed repeatedly.






22. Statistical average






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






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






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






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






27. :=? 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.






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






29. Statistical middle






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






31. Integer division is denoted by _____






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






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






34. dividend / _____________ = quotient






35. In a linear programming problem there are always ____________






36. A reserved word for variable.






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






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






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






40. In Linear Programming ____________ variables are used to convert inequalities to equalities






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






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






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






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






45. Type of control structure: WHILE-DO






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






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






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






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






50. dividend / divisor = _______________