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1. Which of the following language is the predecessor to C Programming Language?
a) A
b) B
c) BCPL
d) C++
Ans: c
2. C programming language was developed by
a) Dennis Ritchie
b) Ken Thompson
c) Bill Gates
d) Peter Norton
Ans: a
3. C was developed in the year
a) 1970
b) 1972
c) 1976
d) 1980
Ans: b
4. C is a language
a) High Level
b) Low Level
c) Middle Level
d) Machine Level
Ans: c
5. C language is available for which of the following Operating Systems?
a) DOS
b) Windows
c) Unix
d) All of these
Ans: d
6. Which of the following symbol is used to denote a pre-processor statement?
a) !
b) #
c) ~
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d) ;
Ans: b
7. Which of the following is a Scalar Data type
a) Float
b) Union
c) Array
d) Pointer
Ans: a
8. Which of the following are tokens in C?
a) Keywords
b) Variables
c) Constants
d) All of the above
Ans: d
9. What is the valid range of numbers for int type of data?
a) 0 to 256
b) -32768 to +32767
c) -65536 to +65536
d) No specific range
Ans: b
10. Which symbol is used as a statement terminator in C?
a) !
b) #
c) ~
d) ;
Ans: d
11. Which escape character can be used to begin a new line in C?
a) \a
b) \b
c) \m
d) \n
Ans: d
12. Which escape character can be used to beep from speaker in C?
a) \a
b) \b
c) \m
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d) \n
Ans: a
13. Character constants should be enclosed between
a) Single quotes
b) Double quotes
c) Both a and
b d) None of these
Ans: a
14. String constants should be enclosed between
a) Single quotes
b) Double quotes
c) Both a and b
d) None of these
Ans: b
15. Which of the following is invalid?
a) ‘’
b) ““
c) ‘a’
d) ‘abc’
Ans: d
16. The maximum length of a variable in C is
a) 8
b) 16
c) 32
d) 64
Ans: a
17. What will be the maximum size of a float variable?
a) 1 byte
b) 2 bytes
c) 4 bytes
d) 8 bytes
Ans: c
18. What will be the maximum size of a double variable?
a) 1 byte
b) 4 bytes
c) 8 bytes
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d) 16 bytes
Ans: c
19. A declaration float a,b; occupies of memory
a) 1 byte
b) 4 bytes
c) 8 bytes
d) 16 bytes
Ans: c
20. The size of a String variable is
a) 1 byte
b) 8 bytes
c) 16 bytes
d) None of these
Ans: d
21. Which of the following is an example of compounded assignment statement?
a) a=5
b) a+=5
c) a=b=c
d) a=b
Ans: b
22. The operator && is an example for operator.
a) Assignment
b) Increment
c) Logical
d) Rational
Ans: c
23. The operator & is used for
a) Bitwise AND
b) Bitwise OR
c) Logical AND
d) Logical OR
Ans: a
24. The operator / can be applied to
a) integer values
b) float values
c) double values
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d) All of these
Ans: b
25. The equality operator is represented by
a) :=
b) .EQ.
c) =
d) ==
Ans: d
26. Operators have hierarchy. It is useful to know which operator
a) is most important
b) is used first
c) is faster
d) operates on large numbers
Ans: b
27. The bitwise AND operator is used for
a) Masking
b) Comparison
c) Division
d) Shifting bits
Ans: a
28. The bitwise OR operator is used to
a) set the desired bits to 1
b) set the desired bits to 0
c) divide numbers
d) multiply numbers
Ans: a
29. Which of the following operator has the highest precedence?
a) *
b) ==
c) =>
d) +
Ans: d
30. The associativity of ! operator is
a) Right to Left
b) Left to Right
c) (a) for Arithmetic and (b) for Relational
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d) (a) for Relational and (b) for Arithmetic
Ans: a
31. Which operator has the lowest priority?
a) ++
b) %
c) +
d) ||
Ans: d
32. Which operator has the highest priority?
a) ++
b) %
c) +
d) ||
Ans: a
33. Operators have precedence. Precedence determines which operator is
a) faster
b) takes less memory
c) evaluated first
d) takes no arguments
Ans: c
34. Integer Division results in
a) Rounding the fractional part
b) Truncating the fractional part
c) Floating value
d) An Error is generated
Ans: b
35. Which of the following is a ternary operator?
a) ?:
b) *
c) sizeof
d) ^
Ans: a
36. What will be the output of the expression 11 ^ 5?
a) 5
b) 6
c) 11
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d) None of these
Ans: d
37. The type cast operator is
a) (type)
b) cast()
c) (;;)
d) // ” ”
Ans: a
38. Explicit type conversion is known as
a) Casting
b) Conversion
c) Disjunction
d) Separation
Ans: a
39. The operator + in a+=4 means
a) a=a+4
b) a+4=a
c) a=4
d) a=4+4
Ans: a
40. p++ executes faster than p+1 because
a) p uses registers
b) p++ is a single instruction
c) ++ is faster than +
d) None of these
Ans: b
41. Which of the following statements is true?
a) C Library functions provide I/O facilities
b) C inherent I/O facilities
c) C doesn’t have I/O facilities
d) Both (a) and (c)
Ans: a
42. Header files in C contain
a) Compiler commands
b) Library functions
c) Header information of C programs
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d) Operators for files
Ans: b
43. Which pair of functions below are used for single character I/O.
a) Getchar() and putchar()
b) Scanf() and printf()
c) Input() and output()
d) None of these
Ans: a
44. The printf() function retunes which value when an error occurs?
a) Positive value
b) Zero
c) Negative value
d) None of these
Ans: c
45. Identify the wrong statement
a) putchar(65)
b) putchar(‘x’)
c) putchar(“x”)
d) putchar(‘\n’)
Ans: c
46. Which of the following is charecter oriented console I/O function?
a) getchar() and putchar()
b) gets() and puts()
c) scanf() and printf()
d) fgets() and fputs()
Ans: a
47. The output of printf(“%u”, -1) is
a) -1
b) minimum int value
c) maxium int value
d) Error message
Ans: c
48. An Ampersand before the name of a variable denotes
a) Actual Value
b) Variable Name
c) Address
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d) Data Type
Ans: c
49. Symbolic constants can be defined using
a) # define
b) const
c) symbols
d) None of these
Ans: b
50. Null character is represented by
a) \n
b) \0
c) \o
d) \e
Ans: b
51. Which header file is essential for using strcmp() function?
a) string.h
b) strings.h
c) text.h
d) strcmp.h
Ans: a
52. malloc() function used in dynamic allocation is available in which header file?
a) stdio.h
b) stdlib.h
c) conio.h
d) mem.h
Ans: b
53. File manipulation functions in C are available in which header file?
a) streams.h
b) stdio.h
c) stdlib.h
d) files.h
Ans: d
54. C supports how many basic looping constructs
a) 2
b) 3
c) 4
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d) 6
Ans: b
55. A statement differs from expression by terminating with a
a) ;
b) :
c) NULL
d) .
Ans: a
56. What should be the expression return value for a do-while to terminate
a) 1
b) 0
c) -1
d) NULL
Ans: b
57. Which among the following is an unconditional control structure
a) do-while
b) if-else
c) goto
d) for
Ans: c
58. Continue statement is used
a) to go to the next iteration in a loop
b) come out of a loop
c) exit and return to the main function
d) restarts iterations from the beginning of the loop
Ans: a
59. Which operator in C is called a ternary operator
a) if..then
b) ++
c) ?:
d) ()
Ans: c
60. Which of the following header file is required for strcpy() function?
a) string.h
b) strings.h
c) files.h
