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






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






3. A formula developed to solve a problem






4. :=? 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.






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






6. The assignment statement is also a ____ statement?






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






8. Statistics: square root of variance






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






10. ____________ / divisor = quotient






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






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






13. A _________ is a group of instructions within a computer program that performs a specific function.






14. Type of control structure: CASE






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






16. The grammatical rules of the language.






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






18. ______ must be enclosed within single quotes.






19. The interpretation or meaning of an item.






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






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






22. 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.






23. A reserved word for variable.






24. 16 (0 - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - A(10) - B(11) - C(12) - D(13) - E(14) - F(15)






25. Part of the program that may be repeated






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






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






28. Type of control structure: LOOP






29. 8 (0 - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7)






30. A fixed position within source code: _________






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






32. dividend / _____________ = quotient






33. Statistical average






34. 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.






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






36. base value of a binary number system?






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






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






39. Outout and Input are _____






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






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






42. The address of a memory location






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






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






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






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






47. Integer division is denoted by _____






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






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






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