Deck 1: Exploring Computer Programming Languages and Their Development

Question 1

What are the three main types of computer programming languages?

A)Machine language, assembly language, high level language
B)Imperative language, functional language, declarative language
C)COBOL, Fortran-77, C++
D)A & C

Answer 1

Machine language, assembly language, high level language

Question 2

One of the Cobol Program division is

A)Environment Division
B)Coding division
C)Specification Division
D)Editing Division

Answer 2

Environment Division

Question 3

Every computer has a set of operation code called as .

A)Data Set
B)Both
C)None
D)Instruction Set

Answer 3

Instruction Set

Question 4

Which of the translator program converts assembly language program into equivalent machine language program?

A)Compiler
B)Linker
C)Assembler
D)Interpreter

Question 5

Which language makes use of mnemonics instead of numeric op-codes & symbolic names for data locations instead of numeric address?

A)Machine Language
B)Assembly Language
C)None
D)High Level Language

Question 6

Which of the programming language is said to be machine independent language?

A)High Level Language
B)Machine Language
C)Assembly Language
D)All the Above

Question 7

Which of the translator program converts high level language into its equivalent machine language?

A)Interpreter
B)Linker
C)Assembler
D)Compiler

Question 8

Which program takes multiple object program files? fits them together to assemble them into the program's final executable form?

A)Assembler
B)Interpreter
C)Compiler
D)Linker

Question 9

Which of the language is sometimes also referred as self-documenting' language?

A)High Level Language
B)Machine Language
C)Assembly Language
D)None of the above

Question 10

Which of the language is said to be one of the oldest high level languages?

A)BASIC
B)COBOL
C)PASCAL
D)FORTRAN

Question 11

Which of the language was designed to solve the scientific & engineering problems?

A)FORTRAN
B)PASCAL
C)BASIC
D)COBOL

Question 12

Who developed the language FORTRAN?

A)Grace Hopper
B)John Kemeny
C)John Backus
D)None of the above

Question 13

When was the language FORTRAN developed?

A)1960
B)1957
C)1980
D)1972

Question 14

Which of the language became the first standardized language?

A)COBOL
B)BASIC
C)PASCAL
D)FORTRAN

Question 15

Who developed the language COBOL?

A)Nicklaus Wirth
B)John Backus
C)Grace Hopper
D)John Kemeny

Question 16

Which version of FORTRAN was oriented towards structured programming approach?

A)FORTRAN 77
B)FORTRAN II
C)FORTRAN N
D)FORTRAN 90

Question 17

What is the latest version of FORTRAN?

A)FROTRAN 77
B)FORTRAN 90
C)FORTRAN II
D)FORTRAN N

Question 18

Which language is said to be the first high-level language to be implemented on personal computers when they were introduced?

A)JAVA
B)C++
C)C
D)BASIC

Question 19

The language PASCAL is named after which French mathematician ?

A)Grace Hopper
B)Blaise Pascal
C)John Backus
D)None of the above

Question 20

Which Language was developed on the concepts of structured programming?

A)JAVA
B)BASIC
C)C
D)PASCAL

Question 21

When did ANSI standardized COBOL?

A)1959
B)1968
C)1952
D)1978

Question 22

Which of the language is said to be the high level language?

A)C++
B)Java
C)C
D)All the above

Question 23

Which of the following translates the source program statements into object codes?

A)Debugger
B)Interpreter
C)Assembler
D)Compiler

Question 24

Which of the following Operating System does not implement multitasking truly

A)Windows 98
B)Windows NT
C)windows XP
D)MS DOS