NCCE Student Knowledge Questions - programming

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Question 1: The process of finding errors in your code and removing or solving them is called?

• A – Filtering
• B – Probing
• C – Debugging
• D – Refining

Question 2: Manisha has written the following code and when she runs it, she receives an error. name=input(“Please enter your name: “) print(“Welcome “ name “… loading main menu”) What does Manisha need to do for the code to run as expected?

• A: Include concatenation in the print statement
• B: The user input needs to be cast to the correct datatype
• C: Remove the brackets in the print statement
• D: Replace the speech marks with single quotations

Question 3: What term do we give to code that contains actions that must be executed one after the other without skipping any.

• A: Iteration
• B: Sequence
• C: Selection
• D: Decomposition

Question 4: The following code is an example of which programming construct? if choice == 1: print(“Welcome to the user account area”) elif choice == 2: print(“Welcome to the quiz area”) else: print(“You are now being logged off”)

• A: Sequence
• B: Iteration
• C: Decomposition
• D: Selection

Question 5: The following code is an example of which programming construct? for i = 1 to 10 print(i) next i print(“Coming, ready or not”)

• A: Repetition
• B: Sequence
• C: Decomposition
• D: Selection

Question 6: Which of the following code makes use of a function?

• A: Total = Price * Quantity
• B: Name = “Minahil”
• C: While Grade != 5
• D: Name = input(“Enter your name”)

Question 7: What arithmetic operator should replace the ‘+’ to give the output the total made from ticket sales? Cost = input(“Enter cost per ticket”) Quantity = input(“Enter the number of tickets sold”) total = Cost + Quantity

• A: DIV
• B: /
• C: MOD
• D: *

Question 8: Akhil has written a program to validate the height of a child wishing to ride a roller coaster: He runs the program and enters the height as being 1.5. What does the program output? if height <= 1.5 print (“You are not tall enough to ride the roller coaster”) elif height >= 2.0 print (“You are too tall to ride the roller coaster”) else print (“You can ride the roller coaster”)

• A: You are too tall to ride the roller coaster
• B: Nothing
• C: You are not tall enough to ride the roller coaster
• D: You can ride the roller coaster