LANGUAGE PROCESSORS QUIZ

Indicate which of the following is not true about 4GL?

Many database management system packages support 4GLs

All of these

A 4GL is a software tool which is written, possibly, in some third generation language

4GL does not support a high-level of screen interaction

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Loaders that allow for program relocation are called

None of these

both (a) and (b)

relative loaders

relocating loaders

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Convert the 48 machine language instructions into assembly language, assuming that they were not generated by pseudo-ops:

STOREA h#014B, d

LOADA h#OD4E, i

ADDA h#01FE, i

ASRA

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The advantage(s) inherent to using high level languages is/are:

All of these

Fewer people, less management and shorter transition in learning time

Improved debugging capability, and superior documentation

A greater degree of machine independence

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A development stategy whereby the executive control modules of a system are coded and tested first, is known as

Bottom-up development

Left-Right development

Top-down development

All of these

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The advantage(s) of incorporating the macro processor into pass 1 is/ are:

more flexibility is available to the programmer in which he/she may use all the features of the assembler in conjunction with macros

All of these

many functions do not have to be implemented twice

Functions are combined and it is not necessary to create intermediate files as output from the macro processor and input to the assembler

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Convert the .WORD d#790 assemblylanguage pseudo-ops into hexadecimal machine language:

42 65 61 72

F8

0111EF

03 16

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Convert the ASCII/BEAR/assembly language pseudo-ops into hexadecimal machine language

F8

03 16

0111EF

42 65 61 72

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An algorithm is best described as

A branch of mathematics

A computer language

A step by step procedure for solving a problem

All of these

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A compiler is

a program that places programs into memory and prepares them for execution

is a program that appears to execute a source program as if it were machine language

a program that automate the translation of assembly language into machine language

program that accepts a program written in a high level language and produces an object program

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