1. Which of the following is not true of FORTRAN?
a. it was developed for scientific and mathematical
applications
b. it is one of the oldest high-level languages
c. it is a problem oriented language
d. it requires extensive internal documentation
e. all of above
2.All of the
following are divisions of the COBOL program except:
a. input-output
b. indentification
c. procedure
d. data
e. all of above divisions
3.In a COBOL program, the input output section is within the
.... division
a. identification
b. procedure
c. configuration
d. environment
e. none of above
4.Which of hte following is not characteristic of COBOL
a. it is a very standardized language
b. it is a very efficient in terms of coding and execution
c. it has limited facilities for mathematical notation
d. it is very readable language
e. all of the above are characteristics
5.Which of the following is an example of problem oriented
language?
a. BASIC
b. PL/1
c. FORTRAN
d. All of above
e. none of above
6.In the evaluation of a computer language, all of the
following characteristics should be considered except?
a. application oriented features
b. efficiency
c. readability
d. softare development aids
e. hardware maintainance costs
7.A factor in the selection of a source language is
a. programmer skill
b. language availability
c. program compatibility with other software
d. all of athe above
8.A computer generated output that lets programmer follow
the execution of their programs line by line is a
a. core dump
b. trace routine
c. detail listing
d. source listing
9.In BASIC, description comments are put in the source
program with the
a. PRINT statement
b. REMARK statement
c. INPUT statement
d. DATA statement
10.Which of the following generations of language will
likely include the languages of the featuer?
a. first generation
b. second dgeneration or third generation
c. fourth generation
d. fifth generation
11.Electronic spreadsheets are most useful in a situation
where relatively .... data must be input but ...... calculations are requied.
a. little; simple
b. large; simple
c. large; complex
d. little; complex
12.The two basic types of record access methods are
a. sequential and randon
b. direct and immediate
c. sequential and indexed
d. on-line and real-time
e. none of above
13.Which file organization is allowed by a direct access
storage device?
a. direct only
b. sequential and direct only
c. indexed and direct only
d. sequential, indexed and direct
e. none of above
14.Sequential file organization is most appropriate for
which of following applications?
a. Grocery store checkout
b. bank checking account
c. payroll
d. airline reservations
e. none of above
15.Which of the following file organization is most
effieient for a file with a high degree of file activity?
a. sequential
b. ISAM
c. VSAM
d. B-Tree
e. All of above
16.One disadvantage of a direct access file is:
a. the delay in computiong the storage address
b. duplication of address locations
c. unsued, but available, storage locations
d. all of above
17.All computers execute
a. BASIC programs
b. COBOL programs
c. Machine language program
d. FORTRAN programs
e. PL/1 programs
18.Which of the following is most oriented to scientific
programming?
a. FORTRAN
b. COBOL
c. BASIC
d. PL/1
e. RPG
19.All of the following are disadvantage of RPG except:
a. it is a very machine dependent language
b. it is very limited in scope
c. is not suited for complex problems requiring extensive
programming logic
d. it has larger storage requierments
e. all of the above are disadvantages
20.Which of the following is not one of the process that a
high level language program msut go through before it is ready to be executed?
a. translation
b. controlling
c. lading
d. linking
e. all of the above are necessary process
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