ICT Gaming Essentials Practice Test C

What should a game programmer do to ensure a game is able to execute as quickly as possible?

• Increase the number of people on the design team

• Revise the problem to be solved

• Decrease the number of characters and actions used

• Create the most efficient algorithms

Answer explanation

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Natalie is creating a game. The object of the game is for the player to get a cat to his toy in 10 moves or less. The game begins with the cat positioned at the top-left corner of the screen and the toy at the bottom corner of the screen. Natalie wants the player to be able to make the cat go 50 steps in one move by pressing an arrow key, and to 100 steps in one move by pressing the spacebar. The number of remaining moves is decreased by one each time the player presses a key.

The game will count down from 10 moves and display the number of moves remaining. If the move count reaches zero or the cat reaches his toy, then the game will start over. Which programming component is needed to tell the program the number of moves to make when a specific key is pressed.

• An event for each keystroke

• An event handler for each keystroke

• A variable for each keystroke

• A keystroke class

Answer explanation

Which programming element is used to provide a detailed description of an object's characteristics and specify what can be done with an object?

• Class

• Instance

• Property

• Method

Answer explanation

Consider the following instructions:

Which two types of programming structures are included in this example?

• Sequential and looping

• Sequential and object-oriented

• Object-oriented and looping

• Looping and selection

Answer explanation

Olivia is part of a game design team. Her supervisor has requested that she create a monster class for her game. The monsters must move, make noise, appear from off screen and disappear when defeated. These actions can be discussed and described as:

• Instances

• Methods

• Properties

• Arguements

Answer explanation

In programming languages, character, string, integer, floating-point and Boolean are all examples of:

• methods

• expressions

• variable data types

• comparison operators

Answer explanation

Variables data types include character, string, integer, floating-point and Boolean

Leah is coding her first mobile app social networking game to engage friends in having more than just a conversation via Snapchat, Facebook, and Instagram. Her goal is to have friends compete against each other intellectually via a trivia game. As Leah develops her game, she realizes she needs to declare a variable for the questions the game randomly displays for the player to answer.

What type of variables do you see in Leah's social networking trivia game above?

• Boolean variable

• Integer variable

• String variable

• Character variable

Answer explanation

Which of the following is an example of a selection structure?

• While

• If/Else

• For

• Do/While

Your testing group has given you a list of suggestions and issues to help refine your game prototype. Your team has identified the issues and brainstormed solution ideas. Which step in the design process should your team complete next?

• Ask the testing group to review your solution ideas

• Test and refine the solution

• Create and execute the solution

• Continue brainstorming solutions

Answer explanation

Consider the following instructions for a game element:

This is an example of which type of programming structure?

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Answer explanation

A selection program structure allows the computer to make a selection between alternatives conditions (for example, if this condition exists, do this - if not, od that)