Chapter 15: Branching

Branching instructions cause the program to branch, or ______, from one place in a program to another.

• Skip

• Branch

• Jump

• Hop

There are how many kinds of branching instructions?

• 1

• 6

• 2

• 3

As many as 16 characters are allowed in a label comment, what are the types?

• Letters, numbers, blank spaces, punctuation marks, and characters *, _, and @

• Only letters and numbers

• Only letters, numbers, and blank spaces

• Only letters and punctuation marks

There are two kinds of unconditional branching instructions. What are they?

• JUMP LBL and CALL

• BREAK and USE

• RETURN and CALL

• LOOP and LABEL

What does the JMP LBL[x] instruction cause the program to do?

• Terminate the program

• Branch to the specified label

• Pause the program

• Restart the program

When used as an unconditional branch instruction, what does the JMP LBL[x] instruction do?

• Jump down in the program

• Jump up in the program

• Pause the program

• Restart the program

What is the label ID requirement for the jump instruction?

• It must be unique

• It must be the same as the jump instruction

• It must be different from the jump instruction

• It must be a random number

The CALL instruction, causes the program to branch to a remote program or __________.

• Redirect to a different memory address.
• Pause the program execution.
• Skip to the next line of code.
• sub-routine

What is a Data Register used for in a program?

• To store a number

• To store text

• To store images

• To store audio files

Data Registers are much like Position Registers as they are ___________ accessible and identified by ________?

• network, name

• globally, R [x]

• locally, X [r]

• hardware, location