Study Guide For Final Exam
1 . The two broadest types of data are ____________ .
a. internal and external
b. volatile and constant
c. text and numeric
d. permanent and temporary
2 . The following pseudocode is an example of ____. if conditionA is true then do stepE else do stepB do stepC do stepD endif Choose one answer.
a. nesting
b. stacking
c. a posttest
d. a pretest
3 . Adding 1 to a variable is also called _____ it.
a. digesting
b. resetting
c. decrementing
d. incrementing
4 . When a program or module uses another module, you can refer to the main program as the ____ program.
a. director
b. calling
c. called
d. parent
5 . Which of the following is not a typical housekeeping task?
a. declaring variables
b. printing summaries
c. opening files
d. performing a priming read
6 . In the following pseudocode, how many times is “Hello” printed? j = 2 k = 5 m = 6 n = 9 while j < k while m < n print “Hello” m = m + 1 endwhile j = j + 1 endwhile a. zero
b. three
c. six
d. nine
7 . An heirarchy chart tells you __________________ .
a. what tasks are to be performed within each program module
b. when a module executes
c. which routines call which other routines
d. all of the above
8 . The major computer operations include ______________ .
a. hardware and software
b. input, processing, output and storage
c. sequence and looping
d. spreadsheets, word processing and data communications
9 . Snarled program logic is called __________ code.
a. snake
b. spaghetti
c. string
d. gnarly
10 . ___ typically appear at the end of a report after all details lines have been printed.
a. Total lines
b. End lines
c. Return statements
d. Group lines
11 .