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Programmer Intake Quiz Questions

The document is a Programmer Intake Quiz consisting of various questions related to software development, databases, and programming concepts. It covers topics such as the software development life cycle, types of testing, SQL queries, object-oriented programming principles, and recursion. The quiz aims to assess the knowledge and skills of programmers in these areas.

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Programmer Intake Quiz Questions

The document is a Programmer Intake Quiz consisting of various questions related to software development, databases, and programming concepts. It covers topics such as the software development life cycle, types of testing, SQL queries, object-oriented programming principles, and recursion. The quiz aims to assess the knowledge and skills of programmers in these areas.

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Programmer Intake Quiz

General

1. What are the steps in traditional software development life cycle (SDLC)?

2. What are some different types of testing?

3. Given two points A ( x 1 , y 1 ) ∧B( x2 , y 2) , define the equation of a line going through A and B.

4. What is the next number in the sequence?

1 9 10 19 29 [ ]

5. Given the following tree, write the nodes in postfix order:

6. What is the difference between ‘stack’ and ‘queue’?


7. Arrange in increasing order of complexity:
a. O ( n2 )
b. O(nlogn)
c. O(n)
d. O(logn)

8. What is the difference between HTTP and HTTPS?

9. What is the difference between ‘supervised’ and ‘unsupervised’ machine learning?

10. Define false positive.

Database
11. How do you implement a many-to-many relationship at the database level between two entities?
12. Given a table T(col1,col2,col3), write an SQL statement to select col1 and col3 from rows where
col2 has no value.

13. Given tables T1(id,name) and T2(id,project), write an SQL statement to produce a list of
(name,project) tuple – all names should appear irrespective of whether any projects are associated or not.

14. Given table PRODUCT(sku,name,description,unit_price), how do you select products whose


name starts with ‘Gi’?

15. What is the purpose of a database index?

16. What is the difference between a ‘full outer join’ and a ‘cross join’?

Programming
17. What are the principles of object-oriented programming?
18. What is the difference between a ‘compiler’ and an ‘interpreter’?

19. Which of the following is odd? (Put an X in the appropriate box.)


a. [ ] Python
b. [ ] [Link]
c. [ ] C
d. [ ] R

20. What is the output of the following Python code snippet?


a = 1
b = a - 1
print(“a/b =“, a/b)

21. What is the output of the following Python code snippet?


list = [1,2,3,4,5]
[Link](0,0)
[Link](‘a’)
for i in range(0,len(list),2):
print(list[i], end=’*’)

22. Considering the C programming language, which of the following is odd?


a. [ ] int
b. [ ] main
c. [ ] void
d. [ ] const

23. Name a sorting algorithm that uses divide-and-conquer approach.

24. The recursive definition of n! is: n !=n × ( n−1 ) !


What is a recursive function? Write a recursive function for calculating n!
25. Write code using nested loops to display the following.
*
***
*****

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