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General Programming

Subject : it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The information that is produced to solve the problem.






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






3. Statistical middle






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






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






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






7. ____________ 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).






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






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






10. A reserved word for variable.






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






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






13. base value of a binary number system?






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






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






16. A formula developed to solve a problem






17. Outout and Input are _____






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






19. Statistical average






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






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






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






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






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






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






26. In a linear programming problem there are always ____________






27. Type of control structure: LOOP






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






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






30. Type of control structure: WHILE-DO






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






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






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






34. dividend / divisor = _______________






35. One or more steps are performed repeatedly.






36. Type of control structure: CASE






37. The interpretation or meaning of an item.






38. 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.






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






40. ______ must be enclosed within single quotes.






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






42. 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






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






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






45. The address of a memory location






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






47. Type _____ Error: False Negative






48. Type ____ Error: False Positive






49. The assignment statement is also a ____ statement?






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