Practice Test: Question Set - 05
1. Convert the 080D4E machine language instructions into assembly language, assuming that they were not generated by pseudo-ops:
- (A) ASRA
- (B) LOADA
h#OD4E, i
- (C) STOREA
h#014B, d
- (D) ADDA h#01FE,
i
2. In which addressing mode, the effective address of the operand is generated by adding a constant value to the contents of register?
- (A) Absolute
mode
- (B) Indirect
mode
- (C) Immediate
mode
- (D) Index
mode
3. Advantage(s) of using assembly language rather than machine language is/are:
- (A) It
is mnemonic and easy to read
- (B) Addresses
any symbolic, not absolute
- (C) Introduction
of data to program is easier
- (D) All
of the above
4. Indicate which of the following is not true about 4GL?
- (A) 4GL
does not support a high-level of screen interaction
- (B) Many
database management system packages support 4GLs
- (C) A
4GL is a software tool which is written, possibly, in some third generation
language
- (D) All
of the above
5. The Process Manager has to keep track of:
- (A) The
status of each program
- (B) The
priority of each program
- (C) The
information management support to a programmer using the system
- (D) Both (a) and
(b)
6. In analyzing the compilation of PL/I program, the description "resolving symbolic address (labels) and generating machine language" is associated with
- (A) Assembly
and output
- (B) Code
generation
- (C) Storage
assignment
- (D) Syntax
analysis
7. Which table is a permanent databases that has an entry for each terminal symbol?
- (A) Terminal
table
- (B) Literal
table
- (C) Identifier
table
- (D) Reductions
8. Convert the BRNE h#01E6, i assembly language instructions into hexadecimal machine language:
- (A) 0111EF
- (B) 9001E6
- (C) DA000F
- (D) 40
9. A loader is
- (A) A program
that places programs into memory and prepares them for execution
- (B) A
program that automate the translation of assembly language into machine
language
- (C) Is
a program that appears to execute a source program as if it were machine
language
- (D) Program
that accepts a program written in a high level language and produces an object
program
10. If special forms are needed for printing the output, the programmer specifies these forms through
- (A) JCL
- (B) IPL
- (C) Utility
programs
- (D) Load
modules