Software Engineering Mcqs

Indicate whether the statement LDA B is a statement, in_________________?

(A) Machine language

(B) Assembly language

(C) High level language

(D) All of the above

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The action of parsing the source program into the proper syntactic classes is known as________________?

(A) lexical analysis

(B) syntax analysis

(C) general syntax analysis

(D) interpretation analysis

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A self-relocating program is one which_________________?

(A) consists of a program and relevant information for its relocation

(B) can itself perform the relocation of its address-sensitive portions

(C) cannot be made to execute in any area of storage other than the one designated for it at the time of its coding or translation

(D) All of the above

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Which of the following might be used to convert high-level language instructions into machine language ?

(A) an interpreter

(B) system software

(C) applications software

(D) an operating environment

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Terminal Table___________________?

(A) contains all constants in the program

(B) a permanent table which lists all key words and special symbols of the language in symbolic form

(C) a permanent table of decision rules in the form of patterns for matching with the uniform symbol table to discover syntactic structure

(D) consists of a full or partial list of the tokens as they appear in the program. Created by Lexical analysis and used for syntax analysis and interpretation

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The task(s) of the Lexial analysis phase is/are__________________?

(A) to build a uniform symbol table

(B) to build a literal table and an identifier table

(C) to parse the source program into the basic elements or tokens of the language

(D) All of the above

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Which of the following program is not a utility ?

(A) Editor

(B) Spooler

(C) Debugger

(D) All of the above

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