Question 1

Who developed the language COBOL?

Accepted Answer

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

Question 2

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 3

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 4

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 5

Which Language was developed on the concepts of structured programming?

Accepted Answer

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

Question 6

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 7

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 8

What are the three main types of computer programming languages?

Accepted Answer

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

Question 9

The language PASCAL is named after which French mathematician ?

Accepted Answer

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

Question 10

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 11

When was the language FORTRAN developed?

Accepted Answer

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

Question 12

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 13

Every computer has a set of operation code called as .

Accepted Answer

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

Question 14

When did ANSI standardized COBOL?

Accepted Answer

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

Question 15

Which of the language became the first standardized language?

Accepted Answer

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

Question 16

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 17

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 18

Which of the following Operating System does not implement multitasking truly

Accepted Answer

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

Question 19

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 20

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

Accepted Answer

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

Exam 1: Exploring Computer Programming Languages and Their Development