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59 exam-style questions on Further Programming, each with the answer and a short explanation. Ten of them are below to try. The chapter test draws ten fresh questions each time and is marked the moment you finish, with your score by topic.
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LDM #75, which addressing mode is used?Answer: D. In immediate addressing the operand is the value itself, so 75 is loaded straight into the accumulator with no memory access for the operand.
Scores.txt holds the values 12, 7, 20 and 5, one on each line. What is output?Total ← 0
OPENFILE "Scores.txt" FOR READ
WHILE NOT EOF("Scores.txt")
READFILE "Scores.txt", Value
Total ← Total + INT(Value)
ENDWHILE
CLOSEFILE "Scores.txt"
OUTPUT TotalAnswer: A. The loop reads every line until the end of the file, adding each value: 12 + 7 + 20 + 5 = 44. EOF becomes TRUE only after the last line has been read.
Team class has an attribute that holds a list of Player objects. Which relationship between the classes is this?Answer: C. When objects of one class are held inside another it is containment (aggregation), a "has a" relationship. Inheritance is an "is a" relationship, and a team is not a kind of player.
Log.txt already contains 50 lines. A program runs OPENFILE "Log.txt" FOR WRITE, writes one line and then closes the file. How many lines does the file contain?Answer: A. Opening an existing file for write mode discards its previous contents, so only the one new line remains. Append mode is used to keep the existing lines and add to the end (giving 51).
Book. Which of these is best written as a method rather than as an attribute?Answer: C. Attributes hold data about the object (title, ISBN, author). A method is an action the object can perform or have done to it, such as being borrowed.
Answer: B. Structured programs are built from sequence, selection (IF, CASE) and iteration (loops), usually organised into procedures and functions. Classes belong to OOP and facts and rules belong to declarative programming.
parent(amir, sara).
parent(amir, bilal).
parent(sara, hina).
parent(bilal, zain).
male(amir).
male(bilal).
male(zain).
female(sara).
female(hina).Which rule correctly defines mother(X, Y), meaning that X is the mother of Y?mother(X, Y) IF female(X) OR parent(X, Y)mother(X, Y) IF female(Y) AND parent(X, Y)mother(X, Y) IF female(X) AND parent(X, Y)mother(X, Y) IF male(X) AND parent(X, Y)Answer: C. A mother is a parent who is female, so both conditions must hold (AND) for the same X. OR would make any female a mother; testing Y instead of X, or male, would define something else.
Answer: C. With indirect addressing the location named in the instruction holds another address, which is where the data is. It is used for pointers.
Stud.dat stores fixed-length records of 20 bytes, with the first record being record 1 at byte 0. In which byte does record 7 start?Answer: A. The records before record 7 take up 6 × 20 = 120 bytes, so it starts at byte 120. Using 7 × 20 = 140 would skip one record too many.
Sportscar is created as a subclass of class Car and automatically has all of the attributes and methods of Car. Which OOP term describes this?Answer: B. Inheritance lets a subclass take the attributes and methods of its parent class and add or change its own. Containment would be an object of another class held as an attribute.
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59, each with the answer and a short explanation, across 2 topics: Programming Paradigms, File Processing and Exception Handling. Every chapter test draws ten of them, so you can take it many times.
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