MCQ PROGAMING QUIZ

            QUIZ TEST  PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE

Question 1: 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

Question 2: 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

Question 3: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

Question 4: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

Question 5: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

Question 6: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

Question 7:All computers execute

• a. BASIC programs
• b. COBOL programs
• c. Machine language program
• d. FORTRAN programs
• e. PL/1 programs

Question 8:Which of the following is most oriented to scientific programming?

• a. FORTRAN
• b. COBOL
• c. BASIC
• d. PL/1
• e. RPG

Question 9: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

Question 10: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

Answers:
1. d     2. a     3. d     4. c     5. a     6. a     7. c   8. a     9. b.     10.a