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E-education Practice Test

COMPUTER ASSISTED EXAMINATION
Programming Language Design Concepts 
Prepared by: Anuj Bhargava

 

Quiz # 1 : 40 points

Direction: Select the correct letter from the given option below.

1. Who developed the first Visual Basic 1.0?

a. Alan Copper
b. Korad Zuse
c. John Backus
d. John George Kemeny


2. The name FORTRAN stands for what?


a. Formula Translator
b. Formula Translation
c. Formulator Translation
d. Formulator Translator

 

3. Who is known as a "Father of Programming Languages"?

a. Kondrad Zuse
b. John Backus
c.Dennis Ritchie
d. Bjarne Stroustrup

4. A language must be "pleasant and friendly", is one of the design goals of what language?

a.QBASIC
b.Visual Basic
c.ALGOL 60
d. BASIC

5. The Visual BASIC (VB) is a third-generation event-driven programming language and integrated development environment(IDE) from Microsoft for its COM programming Model. The IDE concept was first introduced in what programming Language?

a.BASIC
b.ALGOL 58
c. FORTRAN
d. QBASIC

6.This is the first version of Visual Basic that could create 32-bit as well as 16 bit windows program.

a. Visual Basic 1.0
b. Visual Basic 2.0
c. Visual Basic 5.0
d. Visual Basic 6.0

7.The two parameters passing methods introduced in ALGOL 60 were:

a.Pass by value & Pass by name
b.Pass by name & Pass by parameters
c.Pass by name & Pass by value
d. Pass by value & Pass by parameters

8. Dahl and Nygaard developed this language and known to be a foundation of all Object Oriented Language.

a.ALGOL
b.FORTRAN
c. SMALLTALK
d. SIMULA

9. ALAN KAY developed SMALLTALK Programming Language in 1970's , what was the main reason why programmer did not used the language.

a.The language is not portable.
b.People are not ready to used the software
c. The language was not realeased in market.
d. The issue of compatability

10. JAVA Programming language was released on what year?

a.1990
b.1995
c.1999
d. 1997

11. This is the feature of Java programming that does not required programmers to explicitly free dynamically allocated memory.

a. APPLET interface
b. Platform Independence
c. Object Orientation
d. Garbage Collection


12. JVM stands for?

a. JAVA VIRTUAL MODULE
b. JAVA VIRTUAL MACHINE
c. JAVA VIRTUAL MICROSYSTEM
d. JAVA VTUAL METHOD

13. He led the development team of C# language.

a.Anders Hejlsberg
b.Roberts Boole
c.James Gosling
d.Kristen Nygaard

14. Aside from characteritics, what makes the C# language differs from other C languages versions?


a.The programming environment
b. Programming Methods
c. a only
d. a & b

15. ASCII stands for what?


a.American Standard Code Information Incterchange
b. American Standard Code Information Interdependence
c. American Standard Code Instruction Interchange
d. American Standard Code Instruction Interdependence

16. C# programming has how reserved words?


a. 75
b. 77
c. 70
d. 73

17. C# symbol can also be written as:

a.C+++
b.C ++++
c. C++ C++
d. both a & b

18. C# inherits features of JAVA language which is refers to a class that lets you create programs that can downloaded and run on a client browser.

a.Networking class
b.Input/Output Class
c. Language Support Class
d. Applet Class

19. Visual Foxpro programming influnced the following programming languages except for one:

a. My SQL
b. PHP
c. ANSI SQL
d. D BASE with clipper

20. This Visual FoxPro version was released on September 1996 which runs exclusively on 32 -bit Windows Operating System.

a. VFP 3.0
b. VFP 6.0
c. VFP 5.0
d. VFP 8.0

21. The Toledo codename of VFP also known as:

a. VFP 5.0
b. VFP 6.0
c. VFP 7.0
d. VFP 8.0

22. Based on the actual Genealogy, the following programming languages does not directly influence the characteristic of Visual Foxpro Programming language except for one:

a. Dbase
b. Dbase II
c. Dbase III
d. Dbase IV

23. The first VFP produced by MIcrosoft was released on what year?


a. 1995
b.1990
c.1994
d.1997

24. Who developed the Dbase Programming language?


a.Wayne Ratlift
b.Wayne Ratliff
c. Wayne Ratlief
d. Wayne Ratleif

25. dBAse III Programming was the first to introduced this characteristic.

a.Independency
b.copy protection scheme
c. OOP
d. Generality

26. VFP 7.0 is also known for its code name:


a. Tahoe
b. Sedona
c. Toledo
d. .Net version

27. Delfi programming Language was developed by _______ on _____?

a.Microsoft , 1994
b.Microsoft , 1995
c.Borland, 1994
d. Borland, 1995

28. ANSI stands for what?

a.American National Standard Intercode
b.American National Standard International
c.American National Standard Institute
d. American National Standard Interchange

29. Pascal is an influencial imperative and procedural programming language designed by _____.

a.Niklaus Wirth
b.Blaise Pascal
c. Embarcadero Delphi
d. Dennis Ritchie

30. The original intention of Niklaus Wirth why he developed Oberon was:

a. A part of Oberon Operating system with the concept of Modula-2.
b. Enhance the Modula-2 programming language to OOP.
c. To ported Java platform, where oberon plaztform compiled in Java.
d. To publish the full details of the operating system and compiler so that it could be studied and understood.

31. According to tiobe.com as of May 2010 survey, PHP programming Laguage rank what number?


a.1
b. 2
c. 3
d. 4

32. Based on the survey of Programming Language hall of Fame results Last year (2009), what language rank one?

a. C
b. Java
c. Go
d. Python

33. The most marketable language last year was:


a.PHP
b.C#
c.C
d.Vb.net

34. Lists below are the reasons why we need to standardize a programming language execpt for one:

a.Portability of programs
b.Acceptability
c. Faster development
d. Marketability of the Software

35. Different languages are either designed to or happen to meet different programming needs, in scientific Applications which programming Languages designed for this purpose?


a.COBOL
b.FORTRAN
c.LISP
d. ALGOL

36. In System Programming Domains, What is the best language that can be use to interface in outside computer systems applications.


a.C++
b.C
c.Prolog
d. Java

37. This refers to the Programmer job which program are broken into chunks that can be executed at different locations in the program.


a.Loops
b.Operations
c. Subroutines
d. data types

38. Readability of the program may evaluate the small set of primitive contructs that can be combined in a relatively small number of ways which also known as:


a.Simplicity
b.Orthogonality
c.Control Stucture
d. Portability

39. The program is readable and writable if it passed the criteria of:


a.Readability, Writability and reliability
b. Readability and Wiritability
c. Reliability
d. Generality

40. This refers to the ability of the program to use different names to reference the same memory.


a. Overriding
b. Array
c. Aliasing
d. reliability

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