Programming Fundamentals Quiz! Trivia
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- 1.The router operates in which layer of the OSI Reference Model?
- A.
Layer 1(Physical Layer)
- B.
Layer 3(Network Layer)
- C.
Layer 4(Transport Layer)
- D.
Layer 7(Application Layer)
- 2.Unix can be ported to a new hardware platform with minimum changes in the Unix code.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 3.A system program that combines the separately compiled modules of a program into a form suitable for execution.
- A.
Assembler
- B.
Linking loader
- C.
Cross compiler
- D.
Load and go
- 4.Assembly code data base is associated with:
- A.
Assembly language version of the program which is created by the code generation phase and is input to the assembly phase
- B.
A permanent table of decision rules in the form of patterns for matching with the uniform symbol table to discover syntactic structure
- C.
Consists of a full or partial list or the token's as they appear in the program. Created by Lexical analysis and used for syntax analysis and interpretation
- D.
A permanent table which lists all key words and special symbols of the language in symbolic form
- 5.What does vlink mean?
- A.
Visited link
- B.
Very good link
- C.
Active link
- D.
Passive link
- 6.Excel: When a label is too long to fit within a worksheet cell, you typically must.
- A.
Shorten the label
- B.
Increase the column width
- C.
Decrease the column width
- D.
Adjust the row height
- 7.Which of the following is not application software?
- A.
Word processing
- B.
Spreadsheet
- C.
UNIX
- D.
Desktop publishing
- 8.What is Thrashing?
- A.
An extremely long process is called thrashing
- B.
A high executing activity is called thrashing
- C.
An extremely long virtual memory is called thrashing.
- D.
A high paging activity is called thrashing
- 9.The strategy of allowing processes that are logically runnable to be temporarily suspended is called:
- A.
Preemptive scheduling
- B.
Non Preemptive scheduling
- C.
Shortest job first
- D.
First come first served
- 10.A page fault:
- A.
Is an error is a specific page
- B.
Occurs when a program accesses a page of memory
- C.
Is an access to a page not currently in memory
- D.
Is a reference to a page belonging to another program
- 11.Addressing structure:
- A.
Defines the fundamental method of determining effective operand addresses
- B.
Are variations in the use of fundamental addressing structures, or some associated actions which are related to addressing
- C.
Performs indicated operations on two fast registers of the machine and leave the result in one of the registers
- D.
All of the above
- 12.Multi-programming systems:
- A.
Are easier to develop than single programming systems
- B.
Execute each job faster
- C.
Execute more jobs in the same time period
- D.
Are used by only one large mainframe computers
- 13.Which of the following refers to associative memory?
- A.
The address of the data is generated by the CPU
- B.
The address of the data is supplied by the users
- C.
There is no need for an address i.e. the data is used as an address
- D.
The data are accessed sequentially
- 14.In which addressing mode the effective address of the operand is the contents of a register specified in the instruction and after accessing the operand, the contents of this register are incremented to point to the next item in the list?
- A.
Index addressing
- B.
Indirect addressing
- C.
Auto increment
- D.
Auto decrement
- 15.Operating system:
- A.
Links a program with the subroutines it references
- B.
Provides a layered, user-friendly interface
- C.
Enables the programmer to draw a flowchart
- D.
All of the above
- 16.In UNIX which among the following is a command for searching a pattern in a file?
- A.
Find
- B.
Lookup
- C.
Grep
- D.
Cp
- 17.Which of the following instruction steps, would be written within the diamond-shaped box, of a flowchart?
- A.
S = B - C
- B.
IS A
- C.
PRINT A
- D.
DATA X,4Z
- 18.The LRU algorithm:
- A.
Pages out pages that have been used recently
- B.
Pages out pages that have not been used recently
- C.
Pages out pages that have been least used recently
- D.
Pages out the first page in a given area
- 19.A system program that combines the separately compiled modules of a program into a form suitable for execution.
- A.
Assembler
- B.
Linking loader
- C.
Cross compiler
- D.
Load and go
- 20.Once the system administrator has provided the user with a password the user cannot change it.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 21.Which section is used for text and tags that are shown directly on your web page?
- A.
Body
- B.
Metatag
- C.
Head
- D.
None of the above
- 22.Excel: Multiple calculations can be made in a single formula using
- A.
Standard formulas
- B.
Array formula
- C.
Complex formulas
- D.
Smart formula
- 23.To delete 5 lines from a file that you are editing and copy them to a buffer named X you would use the command.
- A.
X5dd
- B.
Dd5X
- C.
5Xdd
- D.
D5xd
- 24.The physical connection between Microprocessor Memory and other parts is called
- A.
Path
- B.
Hub
- C.
Address bus
- D.
None of the above
- 25.What is the use of Bridge in Network?
- A.
To connects LANs
- B.
To separate LANs
- C.
To control Network speed
- D.
All of the above
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