Fortran Ch 1 & 2 UPDATED ACTUAL
Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
What does Fortran? - CORRECT ANSWER - FORmula TRANslator
Fortran was the _____ optimized high level language compiler? - CORRECT ANSWER -
first
Who / When / Where was it created and why? - CORRECT ANSWER - John Backus,
1953, at IBM as an alternative to the assembly language on the IBM 704 mainframe
When was the first draft spec, first manual, and first compiler delivered? - CORRECT
ANSWER - Mid 1954, Oct 1956, April 1957
Cobol followed Fortran in _____? - CORRECT ANSWER - 1960
It was designed for ____ & _______? - CORRECT ANSWER - Scientists and Engineers
Fortran was initially a ______? - CORRECT ANSWER - general purpose, compiled
imperative language that is especially suited to numeric and scientific computing
Fortran is a popular language for _______? - CORRECT ANSWER - high performance
computing
In what year was the language standardized? - CORRECT ANSWER - 1966
Revision of the lanugage led to this version, the most widely used version? - CORRECT
ANSWER - Fortran 77
, Fortran 90 - CORRECT ANSWER - Array programming, modular programming, and
generic programming
Fortran 95 - CORRECT ANSWER - High performance Fortran
Fortran 2003 - CORRECT ANSWER - Object oriented Fortran
Fortran 2008 - CORRECT ANSWER - Concurrent programming
What is a complex data type? - CORRECT ANSWER - Can be the elements of multi-
dimensioned arrays. Fortran has operators not functions to process complex data
Is there a size limit to a Fortran array? - CORRECT ANSWER - No
What are the two most widely used Fortran versions? - CORRECT ANSWER - Fortran IV
and Fortran 77
How many rows and columns are on a Fortran punchcard? - CORRECT ANSWER - 12
rows and 80 columns
How many columns represent a character? - CORRECT ANSWER - One
How many cards represent one line of code? - CORRECT ANSWER - One
What is the collection of punch cards called? - CORRECT ANSWER - A deck
What is the anatomy of a Fortran statement? - CORRECT ANSWER - Column 1,
comment field
Columns 1 - 5, Statement label field
Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
What does Fortran? - CORRECT ANSWER - FORmula TRANslator
Fortran was the _____ optimized high level language compiler? - CORRECT ANSWER -
first
Who / When / Where was it created and why? - CORRECT ANSWER - John Backus,
1953, at IBM as an alternative to the assembly language on the IBM 704 mainframe
When was the first draft spec, first manual, and first compiler delivered? - CORRECT
ANSWER - Mid 1954, Oct 1956, April 1957
Cobol followed Fortran in _____? - CORRECT ANSWER - 1960
It was designed for ____ & _______? - CORRECT ANSWER - Scientists and Engineers
Fortran was initially a ______? - CORRECT ANSWER - general purpose, compiled
imperative language that is especially suited to numeric and scientific computing
Fortran is a popular language for _______? - CORRECT ANSWER - high performance
computing
In what year was the language standardized? - CORRECT ANSWER - 1966
Revision of the lanugage led to this version, the most widely used version? - CORRECT
ANSWER - Fortran 77
, Fortran 90 - CORRECT ANSWER - Array programming, modular programming, and
generic programming
Fortran 95 - CORRECT ANSWER - High performance Fortran
Fortran 2003 - CORRECT ANSWER - Object oriented Fortran
Fortran 2008 - CORRECT ANSWER - Concurrent programming
What is a complex data type? - CORRECT ANSWER - Can be the elements of multi-
dimensioned arrays. Fortran has operators not functions to process complex data
Is there a size limit to a Fortran array? - CORRECT ANSWER - No
What are the two most widely used Fortran versions? - CORRECT ANSWER - Fortran IV
and Fortran 77
How many rows and columns are on a Fortran punchcard? - CORRECT ANSWER - 12
rows and 80 columns
How many columns represent a character? - CORRECT ANSWER - One
How many cards represent one line of code? - CORRECT ANSWER - One
What is the collection of punch cards called? - CORRECT ANSWER - A deck
What is the anatomy of a Fortran statement? - CORRECT ANSWER - Column 1,
comment field
Columns 1 - 5, Statement label field
