Quiz 4

The high-level language instructions are known as ____ code.

• object

• link

• source

• reloadable

Procedural languages are also called ____ languages.

• immediate

• translated

• interpreted

• imperative

A ____ stores and fetches values to and from memory cells.

• random access memory

• read-only memory

• flash memory

• memory cache encoder

Ada, Java, C++ and C# require a ____ to terminate an executable program statement.

• semicolon

• period

• blank space

• comma

____ a program means running it on many data sets to be sure its performance falls within those required limits.

• Debugging

• Benchmarking

• Configuring

• Coding

____ was originally designed for systems programming, in particular for writing the operating system UNIX.

• COBOL

• C

• Python

• Java

A program to interact with an I/O device is called a ____.

• device-let

• device interface

• device driver

• device hook

A ____ occurs when a function, in the course of acting on its argument values to produce a result value, also changes other values that it has no business changing.

• side effect

• side line

• secondary interface

• secondary routine

During the ____ phase, the sequence of tokens formed by the scanner is checked to see whether it is syntactically correct according to the rules of the programming language.

• lexical analysis

• parsing

• code optimization

• semantic analysis and code generation

In the ____ phase, the compiler takes the generated code and sees whether it can be made more efficient, either by making it run faster or having it occupy less memory.

• code optimization

• parsing

• lexical analysis

• semantic analysis and code generation