RockOn:

The Next How To Workshop

 
June 21 - 26*, 2009

Required RockOn Pretest

Must be completed by May 1, 2009

This pretest is designed for us to determine your knowledge and experience with C and C++ programming.  To brush up on C concepts, there are numerous tutorials online, including one at http://www.cprogramming.com/tutorial.html#ctutorial.  Concepts included on this pretest: • Variables, • Conditional Control (if-else), • Loops (while, for), • Functions, • Arrays, • Bitwise Operators (&, |, ^, ~, <<, >>), • Pointers, • C-Strings, and • #define, #include.  Time is very critical during this workshop and we need everyone on the same level as much as possible.  Good luck.  You may download a MS Word version of this test to practice but all tests must be submitted via this page.  You do not need to score 100% on this test but try to get them all right:)
 
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1.  Which of the following C statements declares an integer variable named my_int and assigns it a value of 42?

 

  
2. What is the value of output after the loop is executed?

int i;
int output;

output = 1;
for (i = 0; i < 30; i = i + 3)
{
          if (i < 15)
          {
                   output = output * 2;
          }

          else
          {
          output = output – 2;
          }
}

 

  
Questions 3 and 4 refer to the function foo, defined below:
             

             int foo(double a, char b, long c);

 

    
3. What is the return type of foo?

 

  
4. Which of the following statements correctly calls foo and assigns the return value to the variable x (ignore the type of x for this question)?

 

  
5. What value is contained in x[3] after the following code is executed?

int x[10];

for (int i = 0; i < 10; ++i)
{
          x[10-i] = i + 1;
}
 

  
6. What is the value of output after the following code is executed?


int output;
int a = 10, b = 1, c = 4, d = 7;

if ((a < b) || ((b < c) && (d >= b)))
{
           output = 1;
}
else
{
           output = 0;
}
 

  
7. Which of the following logical expressions evaluates to 1 for the given values?


A = 2;
B = 0;
C = 0;
D = 1;
E = 3;
 

  
8. Given a function void foo(int x), which of the following correctly calls foo?

 

  
9. Locate and identify (1, 2, 3, or 4) the error in the following code:

       char test;

       scanf(test);
1.    switch (test)
       {
2.    case a:
             printf(“Hello!”);
             break;
3.    case ‘b’:
             printf(“Goodbye!”);
             break;
4.    default:
       printf(“Input is not a or b”);
              break;
        };

 

  
10. Which of the following is not a valid variable declaration?


 

  
11. What is the value of output after the following code is executed?


char mask = 0xAA;
char x = 0x13;

output = (x & mask) ^ 0x08;
 

  
12. What is the type of the first parameter of the function foo, which is called with the statement

foo(&x);

where x is a char* variable.
 

  
13. Given the struct below, how would the third element of the data array of the struct be accessed?


struct my_struct
{
       int key;
       char data[100];
       long extra;
} x;
 

  
14. Which of the following statements allows the identifier MYNUM to be used to represent the constant value 42?

 

  
15. Which of the following is NOT a valid C keyword?