NCCE Student Knowledge Questions - programming

By making use of procedures and functions when coding, we can make it easier to

• A – Filter code

• B – Refine code

• C – Debug code

• D – Probe code

What would the following program output? Level1_points = “8” Level2_points = “6” Total_points = Level1_points + Level2_points print(Total_points)

• A: 86

• B: 14

• C: 48

• D: Total_points

The following code is an example of which programming construct? while retry == “yes” playgame() endgame()

• A: Iteration

• B: Sequence

• C: Selection

• D: Decomposition

The following code is an example of which programming construct? if password == “letmein!” print(“Welcome administrator”) else print(“You are not an authorised user”)

• A: Selection

• B: Iteration

• C: Decomposition

• D: Sequence

Ahmer has written the following program: for i = 1 to 5 print (i * 10) next i What would the program output?

• A: 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

• B: 11, 12, 13, 14, 15

• C: 10, 20, 30, 40, 50

• D: 10, 10, 10, 10, 10

What is the name given to a data structure which only allows data of the same type together?

• A: Array

• B: Function

• C: Procedure

• D: Variable

What will be output as a result of the program below? A = 3 * 4 + 2 print (A)

• A: 18

• B: 10

• C: 14

• D: 12

Akhil has written a program to validate the height of a child wishing to ride a roller coaster: if height >= 2.0 print (“You are too tall to ride the roller coaster”) elif height <= 1.5 print (“You are not tall enough to ride the roller coaster”) else print (“You can ride the roller coaster”) He runs the program and enters the height as being 1.8. What does the program output?

• 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

Which of the following is NOT a relational operator?

• A: <

• B: >

• C: !=

• D: ><

Angelika has as written the following code: planet = [“Uranus”, “Venus”, “Mercury”, “Mars”, “Earth”] planet[4] = “Saturn” If she were to output the array how would the data be organised?

• A: [“Uranus”, “Venus”, “Mercury”, “Mars”, “Saturn”]

• B: [“Uranus”, “Venus”, “Mercury”, “Saturn”, “Earth”]

• C: [“Saturn”, “Uranus”, “Venus”, “Mercury”, “Saturn”]

• D: [“Saturn, “Saturn”, “Saturn”, “Saturn” Earth”]