D278 Programming and Scripting Exam
UPDATED QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
A language substantially supports a programmer creating items like person, teacher, and students.
Each item has internal data and some operations.
Which characteristic describes that language? - CORRECT ANSWER Object-oriented
A programmer wants a compiler to report an error if an integer variable is assigned with a string.
Which kind of language should the programmer use? - CORRECT ANSWER Statically typed
A language uses tags around text to indicate how that text should be formatted.
Which characteristic describes a language having such tags? - CORRECT ANSWER Markup
What is a characteristic of a compiled language? - CORRECT ANSWER Converts to machine
language before running
What is a characteristic of an interpreted language? - CORRECT ANSWER Runs easily on
different kinds of machines
What is an advantage of interpreted programs? - CORRECT ANSWER They can be modified
at run time.
A car drove 200 miles using 10 gallons of fuel.Which operation should be used to compute the miles
per gallon, which is 20? - CORRECT ANSWER Division
Which operator should be used to determine if a number is evenly divisible by 5? - CORRECT
ANSWER %
, A variable should hold a person's height in meters.Which data type should the variable be? -
CORRECT ANSWER Float
A variable should hold the names of all past U.S. presidents.
Which data type should the variable be? - CORRECT ANSWER String array
A program uses the number of seconds in a minute in various calculations.
How should the item that holds the number of seconds in a minute be declared? - CORRECT
ANSWER Constant integer secondsPerMinute
A program determines if a user's age is high enough to run for U.S. president. The minimum age
requirement is 35.
How should the item that holds the minimum age be declared? - CORRECT ANSWER
Constant integer minAge
Given integer x = 3 and integer y = 5.
What is the value of the expression (x / 2.0) + y? - CORRECT ANSWER 6
Given float x = 10.2 and float y = 1.0.
What is the value of the expression x / y? - CORRECT ANSWER 10
What kind of operator is the == in the expression i == 20? - CORRECT ANSWER Equality
Given float x = 3.0.
Which expression evaluates to 2.0? - CORRECT ANSWER x / 2 + 0.5 /2 + .25
UPDATED QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
A language substantially supports a programmer creating items like person, teacher, and students.
Each item has internal data and some operations.
Which characteristic describes that language? - CORRECT ANSWER Object-oriented
A programmer wants a compiler to report an error if an integer variable is assigned with a string.
Which kind of language should the programmer use? - CORRECT ANSWER Statically typed
A language uses tags around text to indicate how that text should be formatted.
Which characteristic describes a language having such tags? - CORRECT ANSWER Markup
What is a characteristic of a compiled language? - CORRECT ANSWER Converts to machine
language before running
What is a characteristic of an interpreted language? - CORRECT ANSWER Runs easily on
different kinds of machines
What is an advantage of interpreted programs? - CORRECT ANSWER They can be modified
at run time.
A car drove 200 miles using 10 gallons of fuel.Which operation should be used to compute the miles
per gallon, which is 20? - CORRECT ANSWER Division
Which operator should be used to determine if a number is evenly divisible by 5? - CORRECT
ANSWER %
, A variable should hold a person's height in meters.Which data type should the variable be? -
CORRECT ANSWER Float
A variable should hold the names of all past U.S. presidents.
Which data type should the variable be? - CORRECT ANSWER String array
A program uses the number of seconds in a minute in various calculations.
How should the item that holds the number of seconds in a minute be declared? - CORRECT
ANSWER Constant integer secondsPerMinute
A program determines if a user's age is high enough to run for U.S. president. The minimum age
requirement is 35.
How should the item that holds the minimum age be declared? - CORRECT ANSWER
Constant integer minAge
Given integer x = 3 and integer y = 5.
What is the value of the expression (x / 2.0) + y? - CORRECT ANSWER 6
Given float x = 10.2 and float y = 1.0.
What is the value of the expression x / y? - CORRECT ANSWER 10
What kind of operator is the == in the expression i == 20? - CORRECT ANSWER Equality
Given float x = 3.0.
Which expression evaluates to 2.0? - CORRECT ANSWER x / 2 + 0.5 /2 + .25
