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General Programming

Subject : it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. ____________ 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).






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






3. The grammatical rules of the language.






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






5. Type of control structure: REPEAT-UNTIL






6. Type of control structure: LOOP






7. Type _____ Error: False Negative






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






9. The address of a memory location






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. The information that is produced to solve the problem.






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






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






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






15. dividend / _____________ = quotient






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






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






18. base value of a binary number system?






19. 8 (0 - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7)






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






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






22. Type ____ Error: False Positive






23. A formula developed to solve a problem






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






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






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






27. The assignment statement is also a ____ statement?






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






29. dividend / divisor = _______________






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






31. In a linear programming problem there are always ____________






32. The interpretation or meaning of an item.






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






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






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






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






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






38. _________ is when a procedure or function calls itself






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






40. Type of control structure: WHILE-DO






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






42. _________ error: The program performs a task but it is not the task that was desired






43. 16 (0 - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - A(10) - B(11) - C(12) - D(13) - E(14) - F(15)






44. ______ must be enclosed within single quotes.






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






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






47. In a _________ language the entire program is converted to binary prior to the execution of the program






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






49. One or more steps are performed repeatedly.






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