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General Programming

Subject : it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A ____________ procedure is one in which a statement or set of statements are embedded within other statements






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






3. 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.






4. 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.






5. The remainder in a division.






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






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






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






9. A formula developed to solve a problem






10. ____________ / divisor = quotient






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






12. The address of a memory location






13. :=? 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.






14. ____________ programming is a deterministic approach to problem solving






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






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






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






18. Outout and Input are _____






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






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






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






22. Type of control structure: WHILE-DO






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






24. A fixed position within source code: _________






25. Type of control structure: REPEAT-UNTIL






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






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






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






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






30. The grammatical rules of the language.






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






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






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






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






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






36. The assignment statement is also a ____ statement?






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






45. Type ____ Error: False Positive






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






47. ______ must be enclosed within single quotes.






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






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






50. 8 (0 - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7)