Introduction to Programming Final Exam
Course Introduction
Introduction to Programming is designed to equip students with the foundational concepts and skills required to begin coding in modern programming languages. The course covers key topics such as variables, data types, control structures (like loops and conditionals), functions, and basic input/output operations. Through a combination of lectures and hands-on exercises, students learn how to analyze problems, write algorithmic solutions, and develop simple applications. Emphasis is placed on logical thinking, problem-solving, and code readability to prepare learners for more advanced coursework in computer science and software development.
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Starting Out with C++ from Control Structures to Objects 9th Edition by Tony Gaddis
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Chapter 1: Introduction to Computers and Programming
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Q1) What does the term hardware refer to?
A) The relative difficulty of writing computer programs
B) The physical components that make up a computer
C) The way a computer's storage space is organized
D) The logical flow of instructions
E) None of these
Answer: B
Q2) The two parts of the CPU are
A) the output device and the input device
B) the software and the hardware
C) the Control Unit and the Arithmetic and Logic Unit
D) the single-task device and the multi-task device
E) None of these
Answer: C
Q3) Programs are often referred to as hardware.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: Introduction to C
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Q1) The __________ is(are) used to display information on the computer's screen.
A) opening and closing braces
B) opening and closing quotation marks
C) cout object
D) backslash
E) None of these
Answer: C
Q2) Which part of the following line is ignored by the compiler?
Double userName = "janedoe"; // user's name is janedoe
A) "janedoe"
B) user's name is
C) user's name is janedoe
D) //
E) None of these
Answer: C
Q3) A value is stored in a variable with an assignment statement.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Expressions and Interactivity
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Q1) In the following statement, what will be executed first according to the order of precedence?
Result = 6 - 3 * 2 + 7 - 10 / 2;
A) 6 - 3
B) 3 * 2
C) 2 + 7
D) 10 / 2
E) 7 - 10
Answer: B
Q2) Which of the following will allow the user to input the values 15 and 20 and have them stored in variables named base and height, respectively?
A) cin << base << height;
B) cin base, height;
C) cin >> base >> height;
D) cin base >> cin height;
E) None of these
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: Making Decisions
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Q1) Which value can be entered to cause the following code segment to display the message "That number is acceptable"?
Int number;
Cin >> number;
If (number > 10 && number < 100)
Cout << "That number is acceptable.\n";
Else
Cout << "That number is not acceptable.\n";
A) 100
B) 10
C) 99
D) 0
E) all of these
Q2) Which of the following is evaluated first, given the expression:
A && B || C && !D
A) A && B
B) B || C
C) C && !D
D) !D
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Chapter 5: Loops and Files
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Q1) In C++ 11 you can pass a string object as an argument to a file stream object's open member function.
A)True
B)False
Q2) How many times will the following loop display "Looping again!"?
For (int i = 0; i <= 20; i++)
Cout << "Looping again!" << endl;
A) 20
B) 19
C) 21
D) an infinite number of times
Q3) What will the following code display?
Int number = 6;
Int x = 0;
X = --number;
Cout << x << endl;
A) 6
B) 5
C) 7
D) 0
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Chapter 6: Functions
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Q1) The value in a __________ variable persists between function calls.
A) dynamic
B) global
C) floating-point
D) static local
E) counter
Q2) You may use the exit() function to terminate a program, regardless of which control mechanism is executing.
A)True
B)False
Q3) A __________ argument is passed to a parameter when the actual argument is left out of the function.
A) False
B) true
C) null
D) default
E) None of these
Q4) You must always furnish an argument with a function call.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Arrays and Vectors
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Q1) An individual array element can be processed like any other type of C++ variable.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Although two-dimensional arrays are a novel idea, there is no known way to pass one to a function.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What does the following code do?
Const int SIZE = 5; Double x[SIZE];
For (int i = 2; i <= SIZE; i++)
{ X[i] = 0.0;
}
A) Each element in the array is initialized to 0.0.
B) Each element in the array except the first is initialized to 0.0.
C) Each element in the array except the first and last is initialized to 0.0.
D) An error will occur when the code runs.
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Chapter 8: Searching and Sorting Arrays
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Q1) The following is the pseudocode for which type of algorithm?
For maxElement = each subscript in the array, from the last to the first
For index = 0 To maxElement - 1
If array[index] > array[index + 1]
Swap array[index] with array[index + 1]
End If
End For
End For
A) bubble sort
B) binary sort
C) bubble search
D) selection sort
E) None of these
Q2) Regardless of the algorithm being used, a search through an array is always performed
A) from lowest to highest element
B) from highest to lowest element
C) beginning with the middle element
D) using a binary search algorithm
E) None of these
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Chapter 9: Pointers
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Q1) Use the delete operator only on pointers that were
A) never used
B) not correctly initialized
C) created with the new operator
D) dereferenced inappropriately
E) None of these
Q2) In the following statement, what does int mean?
Int *ptr = nullptr;
A) The variable named *ptr will store an integer value.
B) The variable named *ptr will store an asterisk and an integer value
C) ptr is a pointer variable and will store the address of an integer variable.
D) The variable named *ptr will store the value in nullptr.
E) None of these
Q3) With pointer variables you can access but not modify data in other variables.
A)True
B)False
Q4) It is legal to subtract a pointer variable from another pointer variable.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Characters, C-Strings, and More About the String Class
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Q1) What is the result after the following statement executes?
Char var1 = tolower('A');
A) var1 stores the character value 'A'
B) var1 stores the ASCII value for lowercase 'a'
C) the character A is output to the monitor
D) the character a is output to the monitor
E) None of these
Q2) The function that accepts pointers to two C-strings and an integer argument that indicates how many characters to copy from the second string to the first is
A) strcpy
B) strncpy
C) copystring
D) strintcpy
E) None of these
Q3) A library function that can find one C-string inside another is A) strcmp
B) strstr
C) strfind
D) strsearch
E) None of these
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Chapter 11: Structured Data
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Q1) Which of the following assigns a value to the hourlyWage member of employee[2]?
A) employee[2] -> hourlyWage = 50.00;
B) employee2.hourlyWage = 7.50;
C) hourlyWage[2].employee = 29.75;
D) employee[2].hourlyWage = 75.00;
E) None of these
Q2) It is possible for a structure to contain, as a member, a pointer to its own structure type.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In C++11, you can use a new type of enum known as a(n) __________ (also known as an enum class) to have multiple enumerators with the same name, within the same scope.
A) universal enum
B) auto enum
C) multi-cast enum
D) strongly typed enum
E) None of these
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Chapter 12: Advanced File Operations
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Q1) If a file already exists, you can open it with the flags ios::in | ios::out to preserve its contents.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following is the data type that can be used to create files and write information to them but cannot be used to read information from them?
A) ofstream
B) ifstream
C) afstream
D) outstream
E) None of these
Q3) Data stored __________ disappears once the program stops running or the computer is powered down.
A) on a CD
B) in RAM
C) on a flash drive
D) on the disk drive
E) None of these
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Chapter 13: Introduction to Classes
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Q1) When a member function is defined outside of the class declaration, the function name must be qualified with the
A) class name, followed by a semicolon
B) name of the first object
C) class name, followed by the scope resolution operator
D) private access specifier
E) None of these
Q2) Which type of member function may only be called from a function that is a member of the same class?
A) public
B) private
C) global
D) local
E) None of these
Q3) More than one constructor function may be defined for a class.
A)True
B)False
Q4) In-place member initialization no longer is available in C++11.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 14: More About Classes
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Q1) A(n) __________ is a special built-in pointer that is available to a class's member functions..
A) this pointer
B) &constructor pointer
C) ~destructor *ptr
D) overload operator, ->
E) None of these
Q2) An aggregate class's constructor can use a member initialization list to call the constructors for each of its member objects.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In C++11 the __________ operator swaps the members of the object being assigned with the temporary object.
A) move assignment
B) swap assignment
C) temp assignment
D) semantic assignment
E) None of these
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Chapter 15: Inheritance, Polymorphism, and Virtual Functions
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Q1) Pointers to a base class may be assigned the address of a derived class object.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Polymorphism is when __________ in a class hierarchy perform differently, depending on which object performs the call.
A) base class constructors
B) derived class constructors
C) member functions
D) derived class destructors
E) None of these
Q3) Multiple inheritance is when a __________ class has __________ base classes.
A) base, no
B) derived, two or more
C) derived, no
D) compound, more than two
E) None of these
Q4) More than one class may be derived from a base class.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 16: Exceptions and Templates
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Q1) A function template's prefix contains __________ enclosed in angle brackets.
A) one or more generic data types
B) the function definition
C) constant values
D) the function's return type
E) None of these
Q2) Which of the following is used to signal errors or unexpected results that happen as a program runs?
A) virtual functions
B) destructors
C) exceptions
D) templates
E) None of these
Q3) How much memory is reserved for a function template?
A) four bytes
B) It depends on the size of the template.
C) two bytes
D) no memory
E) None of these
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Chapter 17: The Standard Template Library
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Q1) An iterator of the iterator type that gives you read/write access to the element to which the iterator points is known as a(n)
A) immutable iterator
B) mutable iterator
C) auto iterator
D) range iterator
E) None of these
Q2) A(n) __________ is like a pointer. It is used to access the individual data elements in a container.
A) element access operator
B) subscript indicator
C) global data finder
D) iterator
E) None of these
Q3) An associative container uses __________ to access elements rapidly.
A) data
B) functions
C) keys
D) complex sort algorithms
E) None of these
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Chapter 18: Linked Lists
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Q1) A new node cannot become the first node in the list.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The __________ of a linked list points to the first node in the list.
A) starter
B) head
C) tail
D) declaration
E) None of these
Q3) Deleting an entire list simply requires the use of the delete operator.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The Standard Template Library (STL) provides a linked list container.
A)True
B)False
Q5) A linked list is called "linked" because each node in the series has a pointer that points to the next node in the list.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 19: Stacks and Queues
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Q1) A real-world example of the queue data structure can be seen in a stack of cafeteria trays where the last tray pushed onto the stack is the first tray removed.
A)True
B)False
Q2) A stack that is implemented as a linked list is known as a deque.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Two primary queue operations are
A) push and pop
B) enqueue and dequeue
C) insert and delete
D) onqueue and offqueue
E) None of these
Q4) The __________ operation allows an item to be removed from the stack.
A) push
B) pop
C) delete
D) remove
E) None of these
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Chapter 20: Recursion
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Q1) How many times will the following function call itself if 5 is passed as the argument? void showMessage(int n)
{ \(\quad\)If (n > 0)
\(\quad\){ \(\quad\)\(\quad\)cout << "Good day!" << endl; \(\quad\)\(\quad\)showMessage(n + 1); \(\quad\)}
}
A) 1
B) 4
C) 5
D) An infinite number of times
Q2) The QuickSort algorithm is used to sort
A) lists stored in arrays or linear linked lists
B) tree data structures
C) randomly-ordered files
D) All of these
E) None of these
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Chapter 21: Binary Trees
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Q1) A node that has no children is known as a
A) root node
B) head node
C) leaf node
D) pure binary node
E) None of these
Q2) Select all that apply. Which of the following are methods of traversing a binary tree?
A) LeftOrder traversal
B) PreOrder traversal
C) FrontOrder traversal
D) InOrder traversal
E) PostOrder traversal
Q3) The shape of a binary tree is
A) always triangular
B) always balanced
C) determined by the programmer
D) determined by the order in which values are inserted
E) None of these
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