Advanced C++ Programming Practice Questions
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Advanced C++ Programming delves into sophisticated concepts and modern features of the C++ language, building on foundational programming skills to develop efficient, complex, and high-performance applications. Topics covered include advanced object-oriented programming techniques, template programming, the Standard Template Library (STL), smart pointers and memory management, multithreading and concurrency, lambda expressions, move semantics, and error handling. Students will also explore design patterns, best practices for code optimization, and cross-platform development issues. Through hands-on projects and real-world examples, the course equips learners to tackle challenging software development tasks and prepares them for professional application of C++ in industry settings.
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C++ Programming From Problem Analysis to Program Design 6th Edition by D.S. Malik
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Chapter 1: An Overview of Computers and Programming Languages
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Q1) A program that loads an executable program into main memory is called a(n)
A) compiler
B) loader
C) linker
D) assembler
Answer: B
Q2) The term ____________________ is used to describe a program that has been written in a high-level language.
Answer: source program
source code
source
Q3) A(n) ____ consists of data and the operations on those data.
A) disk
B) compiler
C) interpreter
D) object
Answer: D
Q4) In a C++ program, statements that begin with the symbol # are called ____________________ directives.
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Chapter 2: Basic Elements of C
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Q1) A mixed arithmetic expression contains all operands of the same type.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) The expression static_cast<int>(9.9) evaluates to ____.
A) 9
B) 10
C) 9.9
D) 9.0
Answer: A
Q3) Suppose that sum is an int variable. The statement sum += 7; is equivalent to the statement sum = sum + 7;
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q4) A comma is also called a statement terminator.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: Inputoutput
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Q1) In the statement cin >> x;, x can be a variable or an expression.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Suppose that x is an int variable, y is a double variable, z is an int variable, and the input is: 15 76.3 14
Choose the values after the following statement executes: Cin >> x >> y >> z;
A) x = 15, y = 76, z = 14
B) x = 15, y = 76, z = 0
C) x = 15, y = 76.3, z = 14
D) x = 15.0, y = 76.3, z = 14.0
Answer: C
Q3) ____ is a parameterized stream manipulator.
A) endl
B) fixed
C) scientific
D) setfill
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: Control Structures I Selection
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Q1) The symbol > is a(n) ____________________ operator.
Q2) The operators != and == have the same order of precedence. A)True
B)False
Q3) The value of the expression 6 < 5 || 'g' > 'a' && 7 < 4 is ____________________.
Q4) Which of the following will cause a logical error if you are attempting to compare x to 5?
A) if (x == 5)
B) if (x = 5)
C) if (x <= 5)
D) if (x >= 5)
Q5) To output results correctly, the switch structure must include a(n) ____________________ statement after each cout statement, except the last cout statement.
Q6) When one control statement is located within another, it is said to be ____.
A) blocked
B) compound
C) nested
D) closed
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Chapter 5: Control Structures II Repetition
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Q1) Assume that all variables are properly declared. The following for loop executes 20 times.
for (i = 0; i <= 20; i++)
cout << i;
A)True
B)False
Q2) A loop that continues to execute endlessly is called a(n) ____ loop.
A) end
B) unhinged
C) infinite
D) definite
Q3) Which executes first in a do...while loop?
A) the statement
B) loop condition
C) the expression
D) update statement
Q4) A software ____________________ is a piece of code written on top of an existing piece of code intended to fix a bug in the original code.
Q5) The ____________________ loop has an exit condition but no entry condition.
Q6) The function eof is a member of the data type ____________________.
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Chapter 6: User-Defined Functions
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Q1) Functions that do not have a return type are called ____ functions.
A) zero
B) null
C) void
D) empty
Q2) A(n) ____________________ parameter s a formal parameter that receives a copy of the content of the corresponding actual parameter.
Q3) The standard header file for the abs(x)function is ____.
A) <cmath>
B) <ioinput>
C) <cctype>
D) <cstdlib>
Q4) A function ____________________ is a function that is not fully coded.
Q5) The heading of the function is also called the ____.
A) title
B) function signature
C) function head
D) function header
Q6) In C++, :: is called the ____________________.
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Q7) The program that tests a function is called a(n) ____________________ program.
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Chapter 7: User-Defined
Simple Data Types, Namespaces, and the String Type
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Q1) In C++, [] is called the array subscript operator.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The general syntax for accessing a namespace member is: namespace_name->identifier.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following is a valid C++ statement?
A) typedef integer;
B) typedef int;
C) typedef int integer;
D) typedef integer int;
Q4) Consider the following statements: string str = "ABCDEFD";
String::size_type position;
After the statement position = str.find('D'); executes, the value of position is ____.
A) 3
B) 4
C) 6
D) 7
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Chapter 8: Arrays and Strings
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Q1) Consider the following declaration: int alpha[5] = {3, 5, 7, 9, 11};. Which of the following is equivalent to this statement?
A) int alpha[] = {3, 5, 7, 9, 11};
B) int alpha[] = {3 5 7 9 11};
C) int alpha[5] = [3, 5, 7, 9, 11];
D) int alpha[] = (3, 5, 7, 9, 11);
Q2) Consider the statement int list[10][8];. Which of the following about list is true?
A) list has 10 rows and 8 columns.
B) list has 8 rows and 10 columns.
C) list has a total of 18 components.
D) list has a total of 108 components.
Q3) All components of an array are of the same data type.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The function ____________________ returns the length of the string s, excluding the null character.
Q5) The header file string contains the function ____________________,which converts a value of type string to a null-terminated character array.
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Chapter 9: Records Structs
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Q1) A(n) ____________________ is a collection of a fixed number of components in which the components are accessed by name.
Q2) The components of a struct are called the ____ of the struct.
A) variables
B) identifiers
C) elements
D) members
Q3) Consider the accompanying struct definition in Figure 1. The statement ____________________ defines alumnus to be a struct variable of type newStudent.
Q4) A(n) ____________________ is a set of elements of the same type.
Q5) You can assign the value of one struct variable to another struct variable of ____ type.
A) a simple data
B) the same
C) an array
D) any
Q6) Consider the accompanying struct definition in Figure 1. The statement that initializes the member firstName to Melissa is ____________________.
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Chapter 10: Classes and Data Abstraction
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Q1) A(n) ____________________ is a statement specifying the condition(s) that must be true before the function is called.
Q2) The header file is also known as the ____________________.
Q3) Given the declaration class myClass { public: void print(); //Output the value of x; MyClass(); private: int x; }; myClass myObject; The following statement is legal. myObject.x = 10; A)True B)False
Q4) To create the object code file for any source code file, the command line option ____________________ is used on the system command line.
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Chapter 11: Inheritance and Composition
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Q1) Suppose that bClass is a class. Which of the following statements correctly derives the class dClass from bClass?
A) class dClass:: public bClass
//classMembersList
B) class dClass: private bClass
//classMembersList
C) class dClass:: protected bClass
//classMembersList
D) class bClass: public dClass
//classMembersList
Q2) If inheritance is public, all protected members of the base class are ____________________ members of the derived class.
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Chapter 12: Pointers, Classes, Virtual Functions, and
Abstract Classes
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Q1) If p is a pointer variable, the statement p = p + 1; is valid in C++.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Consider the following statements:
int x;
int &y = x;
The second statement declares y to be a(n) ____________________ of x.
Q3) The dereferencing operator is also known as the indirection operator and refers to the object to which its operand points.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The statement that declares board to be an array of six pointers wherein each pointer is of type int is: int ____________________;
Q5) Given the statement double *p;, the statement p++; will increment the value of p by ____ byte(s).
A) one
B) two
C) four
D) eight
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Chapter 13: Overloading and Templates
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Q1) The ____________________ operator function as a member of a class has only one parameter; as a nonmember of a class, it has two parameters.
Q2) Using a class template, you can write a single code segment for a set of related ____.
A) classes
B) functions
C) operators
D) constructors
Q3) A(n) ____ function is a nonmember function that has access to all members of the class.
A) access
B) protected
C) friend
D) void
Q4) A conversion constructor is a(n) ____________________-parameter function.
Q5) To overload a(n) ____________________ operator for a class, if the operator function is a nonmember, it has one parameter.
Q6) Passing a parameter to a class template has an effect at ____________________ time.
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Chapter 14: Exception Handling
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Q1) The class ____________________ contains the function what.
Q2) One of the typical ways of dealing with exceptions is to use an if statement. A)True
B)False
Q3) Suppose you have written a program that inputs data from a file. If the input file does not exist when the program executes, then you should choose which option?
A) Terminate the program.
B) Include code in the program to recover from the exception.
C) Log the error and continue.
D) Include code in the header file.
Q4) Which of the following blocks is designed to catch any type of exception?
A) catch(){ }
B) catch(...){ }
C) catch(*){ }
D) catch(exception){ }
Q5) All derived classes of the class exception override the function ____________________ to issue their own error messages.
Q6) If the operator new cannot allocate memory space, this operator throws a(n) ____________________ exception.
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Chapter 15: Recursion
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Q1) The following is an example of a recursive function. void print(int x)
{ if (x > 0) { cout << x << " " ; print (x - 1); } }
A)True
B)False
Q2) A function is called ____ if it calls itself.
A) directly iterative
B) indirectly iterative
C) directly recursive
D) indirectly recursive
Q3) Recursive algorithms are implemented using ____________________ functions.
Q4) The language of a computer, called ____________________ language, is a series of 0s and 1s.
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Q5) The rightmost bit of the binary representation of 33 is ____________________.
Chapter 16: Searching, Sorting and the Vector Type
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Q1) Assume that n = 1000. To sort the list, bubble sort makes about ____ item assignments.
A) 10,000
B) 100,000
C) 250,000
D) 500,000
Q2) Which of the following statements declares intList to be a vector object of size 10?
A) vector intList();
B) vector<int> intList(0);
C) vector<int> intList(10);
D) vector<int> intList;
Q3) Which of the following statements declares intList to be an empty vector?
A) vector intList();
B) vector<int> intList(0); C) vector<int> intList(10); D) vector<int> intList;
Q4) The type vector provides the expression ____________________, which deletes the last element of vecList.
Q5) In order to apply a(n) ____________________ search, the list must be sorted.
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Chapter 17: Linked Lists
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Q1) Linked lists allow you to overcome the size limitations of an array data type.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Consider the statements above. The list is empty if the pointer first is ____.
A) NULL
B) 0
C) last D) next
Q3) In a circular linked list with more than one node, it is convenient to make the pointer first point to the ____________________ node of the list.
Q4) A doubly linked list can be traversed in either direction.
A)True
B)False
Q5) In a linked list, the ____________________ operator returns the info of the current node.
Q6) A(n) ____________________ linked list is a linked list in which every node has a next pointer and a back pointer.
Q7) The ____________________ operator advances the iterator to the next node in the linked list.
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Chapter 18: Stacks and Queues
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Q1) In evaluating a postfix expression, when an equal sign (=) is encountered, how many elements must the stack contain so that no error is generated?
A) none
B) one
C) two
D) three
Q2) If you try to add a new item to a full stack, the resulting condition is called a(n) ____.
A) override
B) overflow
C) overload
D) underflow
Q3) An array is a(n) ____________________ access data structure.
Q4) You can perform the operation ____ to remove the top element from the stack.
A) dequeue
B) top
C) pop
D) push
Q5) In ____________________ notation, operators are written after the operands.
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Q6) The operation ____________________ reinitializes a stack to an empty state.
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