Programming language - computer awareness questions

Programming language - computer awareness questions

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Q1. Which one of the following statement is true for Assembly language?

1. This language need not be translated into machine language.
2. It is the easiest language to write programs
3. It uses alphabetic codes.
4. All of the above

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Q2. The statement which is not the characteristic of COBOL is

1. It is readable
2. It is very efficient in coding and execution
3. It is standardized language
4. It has limited facilities for mathematical calculations

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Q3. The high level language program before ready to be executed must go through various process except

1. Linking
2. Loading
3. Controlling
4. Translation

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Q4. Which one of the following language reflects the way people think mathematically?

1. Functional
2. Event driven programming language
3. Cross platform programming language
4. All of the above

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Q5. Which language can be directly understood by the CPU?

1. Assembly language
2. Java
3. C
4. All of the above

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Q6. The statement that is false regarding FORTRAN is

1. It was developed for mathematical calculations
2. Excessive internal documentation is required
3. It is problem oriented
4. It is the one of the oldest high level language

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Q7. Problem oriented language is

1. BASIC
2. PL/1
3. All of the above
4. None of the above

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Q8. The language which is CPU dependent is

1. C
2. Assembly
3. All languages except Java
4. None of the above

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Q9. The words that are set aside by the programming language for its own use is called

1. Control structures
2. Control words
3. Reserved words
4. Reserved keys

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Q10. Which computer language is used on internet?

1. Basic
2. LOGO
3. Pascal
4. Java

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Q11. The program which is computed by all computers is

1. Source language program
2. Machine language program
3. COBOL programs
4. BASIC programs

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Q12. _____________ is used for development of various games.

1. C++
2. FORTRAN
3. BASIC
4. Java

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Q13. What type of languages can easily interact with the hardware?
1. Very high level languages
2. Middle level languages
3. High level languages
4. Low level languages

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Q14. For computer language evaluation, the characteristic that should not be considered is

1. Application oriented features
2. Efficiency
3. Hardware maintenance cost
4. Readability

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Q15. Which program is used for business applications?

1. FORTRAN
2. COBOL
3. BASIC
4. C++

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Q16. ASCII codes has ____________ bits

1. 8
2. 16
3. 10
4. 24

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Q17. For scientific calculations which language is used?

1. SQl
2. Java
3. C++
4. FORTRAN

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Q18. Which language is the set of rules that tells the computer what operation to perform?

1. Programming language
2. Command language
3. Procedural language
4. Structures

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Q19. For selection of source language the factor which should be considered is

1. Language availability
2. Compatibility with other software
3. Both 1 and 2
4. Either 1 or 2

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Q20. Which one of the following statement is true for the machine language?

1. Programs were first written in this language
2. Computer understands only this language
3. It differs from computer to computer
4. All of the above

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Q21. The language which is understood by the computer is

1. Machine language
2. Low level language
3. High level language
4. All of the above

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