Unit 10: Programming Languages and Programming Process - Practice Quiz

1 Programming languages are broadly classified into which two main categories?

2 Which of the following is considered a low-level language?

3 Machine language is written using which of the following?

4 Which of the following is used in assembly language instead of binary code?

5 What is the name of the translator that converts assembly language into machine language?

6 Which statement about machine language is correct?

7 High-level languages are closer to which of the following?

8 Which of the following is a high-level programming language?

9 Which translator converts a high-level program into machine code all at once?

10 Which translator executes a high-level program line by line?

11 A key advantage of high-level languages over low-level languages is that they are:

12 What does HTML stand for?

13 Which language is mainly used to style and format the appearance of web pages?

14 Which language is commonly used to add interactivity to web pages in the browser?

15 In web development, HTML is primarily responsible for a web page's:

16 Which of the following is a server-side scripting language used in web development?

17 What does SDLC stand for?

18 Which phase of the SDLC involves gathering what the software should do?

19 In the SDLC, which phase is concerned with finding and fixing errors in the program?

20 Which SDLC phase takes place after the software has been deployed to keep it running correctly?

21 A team is building firmware that must directly control hardware registers with minimal overhead, yet they still want some human-readable mnemonics. Which language category best fits this need?

22 Languages are often classified as low-level or high-level. What is the primary basis for this classification?

23 A developer says their code describes what result is wanted rather than how to compute it step by step. Which paradigm are they using?

24 Which statement correctly describes the relationship between machine language and the CPU?

25 An assembler is used to convert an assembly program into an executable form. What is its main function?

26 Why is assembly code generally not portable between different processor families?

27 In assembly language, a label such as LOOP: is primarily used to:

28 A compiled language and an interpreted language both start from source code. What is a key runtime difference?

29 A student runs a Java program on both Windows and Linux without recompiling. Which feature makes this possible?

30 Which characteristic is most associated with object-oriented high-level languages?

31 A key advantage of high-level languages over assembly is that they:

32 During compilation, which phase is responsible for checking that statements follow the grammar rules of the language?

33 A web page displays headings and paragraphs but has no styling or interactivity. Which language is responsible for that structure?

34 A developer wants to change the color and layout of many pages from one central file. Which technology is designed for this?

35 Code that runs on the web server to generate a page before sending it to the browser is called:

36 Which pairing correctly matches a task to the appropriate web language?

37 Why is JavaScript often described as a client-side language in traditional web development?

38 A project team gathers user needs and documents what the software must do before any design begins. Which SDLC phase is this?

39 During which SDLC phase is source code actually written based on the design specifications?

40 A defect discovered after the software is released to users is fixed and a patch is issued. This activity belongs to which SDLC phase?

41 A developer claims that a purely declarative language cannot express iteration. Which counter-argument most accurately refutes this claim?

42 Consider four generations of languages (1GL–4GL). Which ordering correctly ranks them from lowest to highest level of abstraction?

43 An assembler encounters a forward reference to a label that is defined later in the source. How does a two-pass assembler resolve this?

44 Why does the same assembly source program generally fail to run unmodified on two processors with different instruction set architectures (ISAs)?

45 A machine instruction is stored as the 8-bit pattern . If the high 3 bits are the opcode and the low 5 bits are an operand, what are the opcode and operand values in decimal?

46 A language is described as compiled to bytecode and then executed by a virtual machine with just-in-time (JIT) compilation. Which statement about its execution model is most accurate?

47 Consider strongly-typed versus weakly-typed high-level languages. Which scenario best illustrates a bug that strong static typing would catch at compile time but weak dynamic typing would not?

48 A team debates using an interpreted versus a compiled language for a performance-critical numerical engine. Which tradeoff most accurately captures the core distinction?

49 Which characteristic distinguishes an object-oriented high-level language from a purely procedural one in terms of how state and behavior are organized?

50 A web page renders correctly but a screen reader cannot interpret its structure. Considering the roles of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, which is the most likely root cause?

51 In the client-server model of web development, which task is inherently a server-side responsibility that cannot be securely delegated to client-side JavaScript alone?

52 A developer stores rendered HTML from user input directly into the DOM using innerHTML without sanitization. Which vulnerability class does this most directly introduce?

53 Comparing server-side rendering (SSR) with client-side rendering (CSR) for initial page load, which statement is most accurate?

54 A project has volatile, frequently changing requirements and requires continuous stakeholder feedback. Which SDLC model is least suitable, and why?

55 The cost of fixing a defect discovered during the maintenance phase is often cited as far greater than one found during requirements analysis. Which principle best explains this escalation?

56 During which SDLC phase is the decision between build-vs-buy and the technical architecture (languages, platforms, data flow) most appropriately finalized?

57 A team using the Spiral model completes a prototype and identifies a high-risk integration point. According to the model, what happens next in the cycle?

58 Two SDLC approaches are compared: one delivers the entire system in a single release; the other delivers working increments repeatedly. Which is a genuine advantage of the incremental approach for a large enterprise system?

59 A logic programming language (e.g., Prolog) is asked to solve a problem by stating facts and rules rather than steps. Which best describes how it produces an answer?

60 Why is it inaccurate to call a language like Python "purely interpreted" even though it is commonly grouped with scripting languages?