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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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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. The steps are performed in a strictly sequential manner - each step being executed exactly once.






2. A reserved word for variable.






3. A fixed position within source code: _________






4. Outout and Input are _____






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






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






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






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






9. Type ____ Error: False Positive






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






11. Type of control structure: WHILE-DO






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






13. Statistical middle






14. :=? 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.






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






16. The address of a memory location






17. 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.






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






19. The grammatical rules of the language.






20. Type of control structure: LOOP






21. 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






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






23. Part of the program that may be repeated






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






25. ____________ 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).






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






27. ______ must be enclosed within single quotes.






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






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






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






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






32. Statistical average






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






34. 8 (0 - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7)






35. Type _____ Error: False Negative






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






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






38. 16 (0 - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - A(10) - B(11) - C(12) - D(13) - E(14) - F(15)






39. One or more steps are performed repeatedly.






40. dividend / _____________ = quotient






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






42. Integer division is denoted by _____






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






44. base value of a binary number system?






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






46. _________ is when a procedure or function calls itself






47. Statistics: square root of variance






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






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






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