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

COBOL Interview Questions

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What is an explicit scope terminator?

3 20310

COMP?

2 6409

What should be the sorting order for SEARCH ALL?

5 10693

How is sign stored in Packed Decimal fields and Zoned Decimal fields?

ABC, HCL, TCS,

6 38214

How do you define a table/array in COBOL?

Hexaware,

5 31469

When is a scope terminator mandatory?

3 9230

How do you submit JCL via a Cobol program?

IBM,

5 20919

What is the difference between a DYNAMIC and STATIC call in COBOL?

2 13357

Differentiate COBOL and COBOL-II?

2575

What is the difference between COMP & COMP-3 ?

2 30953

What was removed from COBOL in the COBOL II implementation?

2144

What will happen if you code GO BACK instead of STOP RUN in a stand-alone COBOL program i.e. a program which is not calling any other program ?

3 15674

How many sections are there in data division?.

Amdocs, TCS,

10 28429

What is the difference between NEXT SENTENCE and CONTINUE?

Mphasis,

2 14256

Can you REWRITE a record in an ESDS file? Can you DELETE a record from it?

ABC, IBM, Mphasis, Wipro,

6 27011

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Un-Answered Questions { COBOL }

What is the difference between PIC 9.99 and PIC9v99?

1338

how do you reference the ksds vsam file formats from cobol programs

1191

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

1326

Describe the cobol database components?

1177

What is amode(24)?

1241

If you are current on the owner of a set, what is the difference between an obtain next and obtain first? Actually in which topic will we use dis???Plz explain it clearly

3164

In which area will you utilize 88 level items in cobol?

1165

What are the access modes of START statement?

1273

Explain how will you differentiate between an internal and an external sort, the pros and cons, internal sort syntax etc

1253

For rewrite, why is it mandatory that file needs to be opened?

1109

What is the Purpose of Pointer in the string?

1081

How are the next sentence and continue different from each other?

1297

What are the pertinent COBOL commands?

3177

What rules are to be followed while using the corresponding options?

1071

Define cobol?

1405

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