Python - Pre-Assessment Exam

Within an event-driven program, a component from which an event  is generated is the ____.

A. interface of the event 
B. source of the event
C. message handler
D. target of the event

Software can be classified into two broad types: application software and programming software.

A. True
B. False

You use the ______ operator to reverse the meaning of a Boolean expression.

A. AND
B. OR
C. XOR
D. NOT

The number of bytes in an array is always a multiple of the number of ____ in an array.

A. subscripts
B. elements
C. iterators
D. indexes

A string variable can hold digits such as account numbers and zip codes.

A. False
B. True

An abstract class is one from which you can create any concrete objects and from which you can inherit.

A. False
B. True

A method that calls itself is a ______.

A. self-referencing method
B. repeated method
C. recursive method
D. simple method

Programmers use the phrase _____ to describe what happens when worthless or invalid input causes inaccurate or unrealistic results.

A. GOGI
B. WIGO
C. GIGO
D. LIFO

An important advantage of using GUI data-entry objects is that you often can control what users enter by limiting their options.

A. True
B. False

In a ______, the loop body executes at least one time because the loop control variable is not tested until after one iteration.

A. nested loop
B. pretest loop
C. loop control
D. posttest loop

The mainline logic of almost every procedural computer program consists of these three distinct parts: _______.

A. housekeeping tasks, main tasks, and end-of-job tasks
B. housekeeping tasks, detail loop tasks, and end-of-job tasks
C. clearing tasks, detail loop tasks, and end-of-job tasks
D. housekeeping tasks, detail loop tasks, and math tasks

______ operators require two operands.

A. Binary
B. Tertiary
C. Dual
D. Unary

________ methods are methods that exist to be used with an object created from a class.

A. Controlled
B. Hidden
C. Static
D. Nonstatic

The case structure is a variation of the sequence structure and the do loop is a variation of the while loop.

A. False 
B. True

Methods with identical names that have identical parameter lists but different return types are ambiguous.

A. True
B. False

The _______ is skewed by a few very high or low values.

A. median
B. mode
C. mean
D. standard deviation

As pages in a book have numbers, computer memory and storage locations have _____.

A. addresses
B. positions
C. pointers
D. references

With a(n) _____ program, a user can continue to click buttons while your program is reading a data file.

A. parallel threaded
B. single threaded
C. multithreaded
D. independently threaded

Methods in a class are static instance methods by default.

A. True
B. False

Array elements all have the same ______ in common.

A. data type
B. value
C. pointer
D. memory location

Both the while loop and the for loop are examples of pretest loops.

A. False
B. True

Images and music are contained in binary files.

A. False
B. True

Structured programs can be easily broken down into routines or ______ that can be assigned to any number of programmers.

A. sequences
B. modules
C. units
D. segments

In a flowchart, the _____ is used to represent processing. 

A. rectangle
B. triangle
C. diamond
D. circle

A ______ is a temporary detour in the logic of a program.

A. sequence break
B. break control
C. control sequence
D. control break