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study the following code 01 A1 05 B PIC 99 05 C PIC X(4) 01 A2 05 B PIC 99V99 05 C PIC A(4) pick out the valid statement from the following a.A1 and A2 can not have sub-ordinates b.A1 and A2 can have the same sub-ordinates but must have same PIC clause c.there is nothing wrong d.A1 and A2 can have same sub-ordinates provided they are not at 01 level

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study the following 01 A PIC 99V0 VALUE 5 01 B PIC 9V9 VALUE 6 01 C PIC 99V9 VALUE 2.5 01 D PIC 99 VALUE 3 COMPUTE A ROUNDED B C = A+B*C/D ON SIZE ERROR PERFORM PRINT-ERROR the comments of A.B.C after execution of the above statement are a.A=10 B=0 C=10 b.A=10 B=9.9 C=9.9 c.A=10 B=0 C=9.9 d.A=10 B=6 C=10

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how many times PARA-A is performed : PERFORM PARA-A VARYING TIMES-COUNTER FROM 1 BY 1 UNTIL TIMES-COUNTER >0 PARA-A MOVE P TO Q MOVE H TO TIMES COUNTER a.10 b.1 c.11 d.0

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consider the following piece of code 01 GROUP-ITEM 05 AMOUNT-1 PIC 99V9 USAGE COMP VALUE 50 05 AMOUNT-2 PIC 9(4)V99 USAGE COMP MOVE ZERO TO GROUP-ITEM ADD 50 TO AMOUNT-1 what will be the content of AMOUNT-1? a.50 b.100 c.0 d.unpredictable

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consider the following progrm statements MOVE 0 TO SW.NO.OF.REC PERFORM PRI-OUT UNTIL SW=1 DISPALY NO.OF.REC STOP RUN PRE-OUT READ IN-FILE AT END MOVE 1 TO SW WRITE OUO-REC FROM IN-REC ADD 1 TO NO.OF REC if the IN-FILE contains 1000 records what value will be displayedafter the PERFORM is over?assume that N0.OF.REC has PIC 9(4) a.1000 b.1001 c.1 d.none of the above since there is a syntex error

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study the data discriptions and answer the questions given below i)01 ORDER RECORD 05 OUT-HEADER PIC X(50) 05 ITEM-COUNT PIC 99 05 OUT-ITEM PIC X(20) OCCURS 1 TO 20 DEPENDING ON ITEM-COUNT ii)01 NAME-AND-ADDRESS 05 N-AND-A-LINE OCCURES 5 05 LINE-LENGTH PIC P9 05 N-AND-A-CHAR PIC X OCCURS 1 TO 20 DEPENDING ON LINE-LENGTH iii)01 SALES-LIST 05 SALESMAN-COUNT PIC 99 05 SALES PIC 9(6) OCCURS 1 TO 100 DEPENDING ON SALESMAN-COUNT iv)01 ORDER-RECORD 05 NO-OF-BRANDS PIC 99 05 BRAND-PURCHASED OCCURS 1 TO 15 DEPENDING ON NO-OF-BRANDS which of the following is true? a.i) and iii) are valid b.i) and iv) are valid c.i) and iii) are not valid d.all are valid

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C1 C2 C3 are three conditions whose TRUTH values are as folloes. C1-TRUE C2-FALSE C3-TRUE A,B,C are defined as given below A:C1 AND(NOT C2) OR C3 B.(NOT C1) OR (NOT C2 AND NOT C3) C.(C1 OR C2)AND C3 D.C1 AND C2 OR C3 given the above information which of the following statements are valid? a.only A,B and C are TRUE b.only A,C and D are TRUE c.A,B,C and D are TRUE d.only C and D are TRUE

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consider the following FD FILE-1 01 REC-1 PIC X(80) ...... WORKING-STORAGE SECTION 01 W-REC PIC X(90) ........ PROCEDURE DIVISION FIRST-PARA ....... READ FILE-1 INTO W-REC AT END MOVE 1 TO EOF-FLAG which of the following is true with respect to the above? a.REC-1 will contain nothing and W-REC will contain the contains of the record read b.REC-1 and W-REC contain the same data c.syntex is invalid and error will occur d.REC-1 and W-REC must be of same size

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PERFORM ACCUMULATE-TOTALS VARYING A FROM 1 BY 2 UNTIL A >2 AFTER B FROM1 BY 1 UNTIL B>2 AFTER C FROM 2 BY -1 UNTIL C<2 How many times the paragraph ACCUMULATE-TOTALS would be exicuted?

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there is a file whose ORGANISATION is INDEXED.you want to read the records from the file in RANDOM fashion as well as sequentially.then which of the access mode would you specify? a.SEQUENTIAL b.RANDOM c.DYNAMIC D.ACCESS MODE has nothing to do with it

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consider the following PROCEDURE DIVISION entry OPEN EXTEND IN-FILE identify the correct statement a.organization of IN-FILE is sequential and records can be added in the beginning b.organization of IN-FILE is sequential and records can be added in the end c.organization of IN-FILE is indexed and records can be added in the beginning d.organization of IN-FILE is indexed and records can be added in the end

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what is the size of W-REC in the following 01 W-REC 05 A PIC 9(4)V99 05 B READLINES A 10 C PIC XX 10 D PIC S9(4) 05 E OCCURS 7 PIC ZZ.ZZ 05 F OCCURS 5 10 G PIC ZZ.ZZZ99 10 H OCCURS 3 15 J PIC 9(3) 15 K PIC V99

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consider the following two IF statements: IF X AND NOT Y MOVE A TO B IF Z=1 OR 9 MOVE A TO B select one of the following data divusion entries which gives identical results for both the above IF statements a.01 Z PIC 9 88 X VALUE 1.9 88 Y VALUE 0.2 THRU 8 b.01 Z PIC 9 88 X VALUE 0.2 THRU 8 Y VALUE 1.9 c.01 Z PIC 9 88 X VALUE 1.9 88 NOT-Y VALUE 0.2 THRU 1.9 d.none of yhe above

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consider the following two statements MOVE 10 TO N PERFORM PARA-X N TIMES STOP RUN PARA-X MOVE 5 TO N how many times PARA-X willbe exicuted? a.10 b.5 c.infinate d.execution error

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given the following: 77 A PIC 9V9 VALUE 9.5 77 B PIC 9 VALUE 9. 77 C PIC V9 VALUE 0.8 77 D PIC 9 77 E PIC 9 77 F PIC 9V999 what are the contenta of D E nad F after the following statements are executed: COMPUTE F ROUNDED=A+C/B MULTIPLY A BY C GIVING E ADD B C A GIVING D ROUNDED a.F=9.589 E=8 D=1 b.F=9.589 E=8 D=9 c.F=9.589 E=7 D=9 d.F=9.589 E=7 D=1

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