C (programming language)

C (programming language) - Quiz

1. When was the C programming language created?

A) 1972
B) 1980
C) 1965
D) 1989

2. Who created the C programming language?

A) Ken Thompson
B) Bjarne Stroustrup
C) Alan Turing
D) Dennis Ritchie

3. What language was C developed as a successor to?

A) Fortran
B) B
C) Assembly
D) A

4. At which institution was C initially developed?

A) Bell Labs
B) Xerox PARC
C) MIT
D) Stanford University

5. What is the primary use of C in operating systems?

A) Graphical user interfaces
B) Kernels
C) Office suites
D) Web browsers

6. Which organization has standardized C since 1989?

A) American National Standards Institute
B) Internet Engineering Task Force
C) World Wide Web Consortium
D) IEEE

7. What type of programming language paradigm does C belong to?

A) Logic-based
B) Imperative procedural
C) Purely functional
D) Strictly object-oriented

8. How are statements terminated in C?

A) Newlines
B) Periods
C) Colons
D) Semicolons

9. How are blocks grouped in C source code?

A) Square brackets
B) Indentation
C) Parentheses
D) Curly braces

10. Where must all executable code be contained in C?

A) Classes
B) Top-level statements
C) Functions
D) Global scopes

11. How are parameters normally passed in C?

A) By name
B) By value
C) By need
D) By reference

12. How is pass-by-reference achieved in C?

A) With pointers
B) With aliases
C) With references
D) With keywords

13. What kind of type system does C have?

A) Duck
B) Static
C) Inferred
D) Dynamic

14. How is run-time polymorphism achieved in C?

A) Using function pointers
B) Using virtual inheritance
C) Using interfaces
D) Using classes

15. How are arrays defined and accessed in C?

A) Angle-bracket notation
B) Parentheses notation
C) Curly-brace notation
D) Square-bracket notation

16. What do unions support in C?

A) Overlapping members
B) Garbage collection
C) Operator overloading
D) Inheritance

17. What type does C lack a dedicated version of?

A) Character type
B) Array type
C) Integer type
D) String type

18. What kind of strings does C provide syntax for?

A) Null-terminated strings
B) Immutable strings
C) Reference strings
D) Length-prefixed strings

19. What is included in C for macro definition and conditional compilation?

A) The linker
B) The C preprocessor
C) The C compiler
D) The standard library

20. How is modularity supported in C?

A) Using modules
B) Using namespaces
C) Processing files separately
D) Using packages

21. Which external library provides object orientation for C?

A) GLib Object System
B) POSIX library
C) Boehm garbage collector
D) Standard library

22. Which external library provides garbage collection for C?

A) Boehm garbage collector
B) GLib Object System
C) ANSI collector
D) Malloc library

23. In which index has C typically ranked as the most or second-most popular language since 2000?

A) PYPL index
B) GitHub Octoverse
C) Stack Overflow Index
D) TIOBE index

24. What book served for many years as the de facto standard for C?

A) The C Standard
B) Modern C
C) Programming in C
D) The C Programming Language

25. Which organizations jointly standardize C after ANSI?

A) ISO and IEC
B) GNU and FSF
C) IEEE and W3C
D) ANSI and W3C

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