COBOL Interview Questions, Answers for Freshers and Experienced asked in various Company Job Interviews

COBOL Interview Questions

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COMPUTE X = A * B - C * D and COMPUTE X = (A * B) - (C * D) (a) Are not the same (b) Are same (c) Syntactically wrong (d) Will yield a run time error

TCS,

1 6372

OCCURS clause is used in the DATA DIVISION on data names at (a) 01 level (b) 77 level (c) 88 level (d) any level from 02 to 49

TCS,

13 20309

Consider the following COBOL entries: 05 X PIC 99 VALUE 10. SUBTRACT 20 FROM X. The resultant value of X wil be

TCS,

7 15326

Consider the following COBOL entries 05 X PIC 99 VALUE 10. ADD 40 X TO X. COMPUTE X = 3 * X - 40. The result in X is

TCS,

12 18903

given the following piece of code: CALL SUB-PGM USING A, B, C. CALL SUB-PGM USING A, C, C. (a) Both CALL statements will always produce same result. (d) Both CALL statements may produce different result. (c) Compile-time error because SUB-PGM is a dataname. (d) Compile-time error because A, B, C are used twice.

TCS,

2 8494

The hierarchy of the execution of logical operators is (a) NOT AND OR (b) AND OR NOT (c) OR AND NOT (d) OR NOT AND

Huawei, IBM, TCS,

10 33027

The order of precedence of arithmetic operators in an expression can be overridden with the use of (a) [] (b) () (c) {} (d) Any of the above

TCS,

3 9768

Which of the following paragraphs is compulsory in every COBOL program? (a) SPECIAL-NAMES (b) PROGRAM-ID (c) FILE-CONTROL (d) OBJECT-COMPUTER

4 9028

Which of the following files can be OPENed in all the 4 modes? The four modes are INPUT, I-O, OUTPUT and EXTEND. (a) INDEXED (b) RELATIVE (c) SEQUENTIAL (d) All of the above

TCS,

7 14873

Which of the following EDITind and PICTURE symbols is to be used if a minus(-) is to appear before the value if the value is -ve and a plus(+) is to appear before the value if the value is +ve? (a) + (b) - (c) + OR (d) It is not possible

TCS,

7 9930

i Want All cobol ERROR codes?

HCL, IBM,

4 16757

I want ALL jcl ERROR cods

1 10366

I want ALL ERROR codes in VSAM

American Express, TCS,

3 34460

i WANT ALL ERROR codes IN CICS and DB2

2 7621

i want all ERRORS codes in COBOL ,JCL,VSAM ,DB2,CICS

Infosys,

4 14452

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Un-Answered Questions { COBOL }

Which mode is used to operate the sequential file?

1155

what is the difference between COBOL2 AND COBOL390?

2990

What are the cobol coding sheets?

1184

What are 77 levels used for?

1058

Why is it necessary that file needs to be opened in I-O mode for REWRITE?

1265

how to convert the recors form vsam file to db2 table tru file aid

3213

how do you reference the rrds file formats from cobol programs

1499

Name some of the examples of COBOl 11?

3085

example for sub strings ? and refernce modifications whit output pls

2271

)If there are 10 steps in GDG, if I want to refer the step2 after step5 . what should I do?

1957

What is Pic 9v99 Indicates in COBOL?

1183

INREC AND OUTREC? HOW TO SPLIT 5K RECORDS TO DIFFERENT FILES IN A FILE IN COBOL? RESTART IN COBOL-DB2? ISOLATION LEVELS?

820

What are declaratives and what are their uses in cobol?

1138

What is perform what is varying?

1115

What is the difference between comp and comp-3 usage?

1132

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