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Computer Programming in C– ics 103

Practice Questions
Prepared by: Mrs. Sabiha begum

1. Choose the correct answer for each question below:

1. If y has the value 5 what will be the value of the variable y a5er the following piece of C
is executed?
if (y > 0)
y = y + 2;
a) 7
b) 5
c) 2
2. If p has the value 3 and max has the value 5, what will be the value of the variable max
a5er the following piece of C++ is executed?
if (p < max)
max = p
a) 3
b) 5
c) 6
3. Which of the following is selecGon statement in C ?
a) while
b) for
c) switch

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4. Given the following funcGon

int strange(int x, int y)
{
If(x > y)
return x + y;
else
return x – y;
}
What is the output of the following statement?
prin@( “%d” , strange(4, 5));
a) 2
b) 1
c) -1
5. What is the output of the following code?
int number = 8;
if (number < 8)
prin@(“%d”, 1);
else
prin@(“%d”, 2);
a) 1
b) 2
c) 8
6. What is y a5er the following switch statement is executed?
int x = 3; int y = 4;
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‫)‪switch (x + 3‬‬
‫{‬
‫;‪case 6: y = 0‬‬
‫;‪case 7: y = 1‬‬
‫;‪default: y += 1‬‬
‫}‬
‫‪a) 2‬‬
‫‪b) 3‬‬
‫‪c) 4‬‬

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7. Which of the following is a logical NOT operator?

A-!
B - &&
C-&
D - All of the above

Answer : A
8. Which of the following variable cannot be used by switch-case statement?
A - char
B - int
C - float
D - Double

Answer : C
9. Which statement can print \n on the screen?
A - printf("\\n");
B - printf("n\");
C - printf("n");
D - printf('\n');

Answer : A
1. What will be the output of the following C code?

1. #include <stdio.h>
2. int main()
3. {
4. int i = -3;
5. int k = i % 2;
6. printf("%d\n", k);
7. }

a) Compile time error

b) -1
c) 1
d) Implementation defined
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Answer: b

. What will be the final value of x in the following C code?

1. #include <stdio.h>
2. void main()
3. {
4. int x = 5 * 9 / 3 + 9;
5. }
a) 3.75
b) Depends on compiler
c) 24
d) 3

Answer: c

. What is the precedence of arithmetic operators (from highest to lowest)?

a) %, *, /, +, –
b) %, +, /, *, –
c) +, -, %, *, /
d) %, +, -, *, /
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Answer: a
Which of the following is not an arithmetic operation?
a) a * = 10;
b) a / = 10;
c) a ! = 10;
d) a % = 10;
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Answer: c
Which among the following are the fundamental arithmetic operators, i.e, performing the desired operation can be
done using that operator only?
a) +, –
b) +, -, %

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c) +, -, *, /
d) +, -, *, /, %
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Answer: a
What is the result of logical or relational expression in C?
a) True or False
b) 0 or 1
c) 0 if an expression is false and any positive number if an expression is true
d) None of the mentioned
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Answer: b
Which among the following is NOT a logical or relational operator?
a) !=
b) ==
c) ||
d) =
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Answer: d
What will be the output of the following C code?

1. #include <stdio.h>
2. void main()
3. {
4. int x = 5;
5. if (x < 1)
6. printf("hello");
7. if (x == 5)
8. printf("hi");
9. else
10. printf("no");
11. }

a) hi
b) hello
c) no

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d) error
View Answer

Answer: a

How many times i value is checked in the following C code?

1. #include <stdio.h>
2. int main()
3. {
4. int i = 0;
5. do {
6. i++;
7. printf("in while loop\n");
8. } while (i < 3);
9. }

a) 2
b) 3
c) 4
d) 1
View Answer

Answer: b
5. Which datatype can accept the switch statement?
a) int
b) char
c) long
d) all of the mentioned
View Answer

Answer: d
What will be the output of the following C code?

1. #include <stdio.h>
2. void main()
3. {
4. double k = 0;
5. for (k = 0.0; k < 3.0; k++)

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6. printf("Hello");
7. }

a) Run time error

b) Hello is printed thrice
c) Hello is printed twice
d) Hello is printed infinitely
View Answer

Answer: b
Which of the following is a correct format for declaration of function?
a) return-type function-name(argument type);
b) return-type function-name(argument type){}
c) return-type (argument type)function-name;
d) all of the mentioned
View Answer

Answer: a
the value obtained in the function is given back to main by using ________ keyword.
a) return
b) static
c) new
d) volatile
View Answer

Answer: a
5. Which of the following declaration is illegal?
a)

int a = 0, b = 1, c = 2;
int array[3] = {a, b, c};

b)

int size = 3;
int array[size];

c)

int size = 3;

8 ICS – 103 Practice Questions

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‫وزارة التعـــــليــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــم‬ Ministry of Education
‫جـــامعـــــــــــة حائـــــــــــــــــــــــل‬ University of Hail
‫كليــــــــــــــة علـــــــــــــــــوم وهــنــــــــــــــدســــــــــة‬ College of Computer Science and Engineering
‫الحــــــــاســـــــــــــــب اآللـي‬
‫قســـــــــــــــم علــــــــــــــــــوم‬ Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering
‫الحــــــــاســـــــــــــــب وهــنــــــــــــــدســــــــــة الــبرمجيــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــات‬

int array[size] = {1, 2, 3};

d) All of the mentioned
View Answer

Answer: c

18. The placeholder %s is used in the format of

a. char
b. string
c. int
d. float
Answer: b
. What will be the output of the program ?
#include <stdio.h>
int main () {
char greeting[6] = {'H', 'e', 'l', 'l', 'o', '\0'};
printf("Greeting message: %s\n", greeting );
return 0;
}
a. Hello
b. “Hello”
c. ‘Hello
d. H,e,l,I,o

Answer: a

2. What is the output of the following code?

Answer:
voidmaxValue(int value1, int value2)
2
{
if (value1 > value2)
printf(“%d”, value1);

9 ICS – 103 Practice Questions

Prepared by: Mrs. Salam Albazrawi
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‫وزارة التعـــــليــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــم‬ Ministry of Education
‫جـــامعـــــــــــة حائـــــــــــــــــــــــل‬ University of Hail
‫كليــــــــــــــة علـــــــــــــــــوم وهــنــــــــــــــدســــــــــة‬ College of Computer Science and Engineering
‫الحــــــــاســـــــــــــــب اآللـي‬
‫قســـــــــــــــم علــــــــــــــــــوم‬ Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering
‫الحــــــــاســـــــــــــــب وهــنــــــــــــــدســــــــــة الــبرمجيــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــات‬

else
printf(“%d”, value2);
}
int main() {
int max = 0;
maxValue(1, 2);
return 0;
}

3. What is the output of the following code?

for(i=1; i < 5; i++) Answer:
printf(“%d\n”, 2*i);
2
4
6

4. What is the output of the following code?

int k;
Answer:
for(k = 1; k <= 4; k++) {
printf (“A”); AAAA B

printf (“B”);
}
5. What is the output of the following code?
int m=20:
Answer:
if (m >= 12)
Good after noon!
printf("Good after noon!\n");

10 ICS – 103 Practice Questions

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‫وزارة التعـــــليــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــم‬ Ministry of Education
‫جـــامعـــــــــــة حائـــــــــــــــــــــــل‬ University of Hail
‫كليــــــــــــــة علـــــــــــــــــوم وهــنــــــــــــــدســــــــــة‬ College of Computer Science and Engineering
‫الحــــــــاســـــــــــــــب اآللـي‬
‫قســـــــــــــــم علــــــــــــــــــوم‬ Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering
‫الحــــــــاســـــــــــــــب وهــنــــــــــــــدســــــــــة الــبرمجيــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــات‬

else
printf("Good Morning!\n");

6. What is the output of the following code?

int n = 12%5;
Answer:
if (n/2 == 1)
printf( "Two\n"); Two
That was fun!
printf("That was fun!\n");
7. What is the output of the following code?
int n = 12%5;
Answer:
if (n == 1)
printf( "Two\n"); That was fun!
printf("That was fun!\n");
8. What is the output of the following code?
int n = 12%5;
Answer:
if (n == 1)
printf( "Two\n"); That was fun!
else
printf("That was fun!\n");

11 ICS – 103 Practice Questions

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‫وزارة التعـــــليــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــم‬ Ministry of Education
‫جـــامعـــــــــــة حائـــــــــــــــــــــــل‬ University of Hail
‫كليــــــــــــــة علـــــــــــــــــوم وهــنــــــــــــــدســــــــــة‬ College of Computer Science and Engineering
‫الحــــــــاســـــــــــــــب اآللـي‬
‫قســـــــــــــــم علــــــــــــــــــوم‬ Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering
‫الحــــــــاســـــــــــــــب وهــنــــــــــــــدســــــــــة الــبرمجيــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــات‬

9. What is the output of the following code?

int m=2:
Answer:
switch (m)
Good Afternoon
{ case 1 : printf(“Good Morning”); break;
Good Evening
case 2 : printf(“Good Afternoon”);
case 3 : printf(“Good Evening”); break;
default: printf(“Error”); }
10.What is the output of the following code?
int i;
Answer:
int j= 9;
1 9
for (i= 1; i < 12; i+=3 )
4 9
{ printf(“%d %d \n”, i , j);
7 9

}
11.Write an if / else statement that will print the largest of two variables A or B .
int A , B ;
if(A>B)printf(“%d”,A);
else
printf(“%d”,B);

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‫وزارة التعـــــليــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــم‬ Ministry of Education
‫جـــامعـــــــــــة حائـــــــــــــــــــــــل‬ University of Hail
‫كليــــــــــــــة علـــــــــــــــــوم وهــنــــــــــــــدســــــــــة‬ College of Computer Science and Engineering
‫الحــــــــاســـــــــــــــب اآللـي‬
‫قســـــــــــــــم علــــــــــــــــــوم‬ Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering
‫الحــــــــاســـــــــــــــب وهــنــــــــــــــدســــــــــة الــبرمجيــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــات‬

String Functions Description

strstr( ) Returns pointer to first occurrence of str2 in str1

strrstr( ) Returns pointer to last occurrence of str2 in str1

strdup( ) Duplicates the string

strlwr( ) Converts string to lowercase

strupr( ) Converts string to uppercase

strrev( ) Reverses the given string

strset( ) Sets all character in a string to given character

strnset( ) It sets the portion of characters in a string to given character

strtok( ) Tokenizing given string using delimiter

String Functions Description

strstr( ) Returns pointer to first occurrence of str2 in str1

strrstr( ) Returns pointer to last occurrence of str2 in str1

strdup( ) Duplicates the string

13 ICS – 103 Practice Questions

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 ‫اململكـــــــــة العربــيـــــة السعوديـــــة‬ Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
‫وزارة التعـــــليــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــم‬ Ministry of Education
‫جـــامعـــــــــــة حائـــــــــــــــــــــــل‬ University of Hail
‫كليــــــــــــــة علـــــــــــــــــوم وهــنــــــــــــــدســــــــــة‬ College of Computer Science and Engineering
‫الحــــــــاســـــــــــــــب اآللـي‬
‫قســـــــــــــــم علــــــــــــــــــوم‬ Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering
‫الحــــــــاســـــــــــــــب وهــنــــــــــــــدســــــــــة الــبرمجيــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــات‬

strlwr( ) Converts string to lowercase

strupr( ) Converts string to uppercase

strrev( ) Reverses the given string

strset( ) Sets all character in a string to given character

strnset( ) It sets the portion of characters in a string to given character

strtok( ) Tokenizing given string using delimiter

12.Write a program that shows a message "PASS" if value entered by user greater than or
equal 60 and print "Fail" otherwise.
#include<stdio.h>
int main()
{
int value;
printf("Enter a value: ");
scanf("%d", &value);

if (value>=60)
printf("Pass\n");
else
printf("Fail\n");
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‫وزارة التعـــــليــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــم‬ ‫‪Ministry of Education‬‬
‫جـــامعـــــــــــة حائـــــــــــــــــــــــل‬ ‫‪University of Hail‬‬
‫كليــــــــــــــة علـــــــــــــــــوم وهــنــــــــــــــدســــــــــة‬ ‫‪College of Computer Science and Engineering‬‬
‫الحــــــــاســـــــــــــــب اآللـي‬
‫قســـــــــــــــم علــــــــــــــــــوم‬ ‫‪Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering‬‬
‫الحــــــــاســـــــــــــــب وهــنــــــــــــــدســــــــــة الــبرمجيــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــات‬

‫;)"‪system("pause‬‬
‫;‪return 0‬‬
‫}‬

‫‪13.Find out the square root and power‬‬

‫‪1. Sqrt(16)=4‬‬
‫‪2. Sqrt(4)=2‬‬
‫‪3. Sqrt(9)=3‬‬
‫‪4. Sqrt(49)=7‬‬
‫‪5‬‬
‫___________=)‪5. sqrt(25‬‬
‫‪10‬‬
‫____________=)‪6. sqrt(100‬‬

‫‪Power(3,2)=32=9‬‬
‫‪Power(4,2)=42=16‬‬
‫‪2‬‬
‫‪5 =25‬‬
‫____________=)‪Power(5,2‬‬
‫‪3‬‬
‫‪6 = 216‬‬
‫_________________=)‪Power(6,3‬‬

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‫‪Prepared by: Mrs. Salam Albazrawi‬‬