COBOL/Cobol%20MCQ%20Questions Sample Test,Sample questions

Question:
.....verb is used to alter the value of index in COBOL:

1.Set

2.Alter

3.Move

4.both A and B

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Question:
A storage device which is used to store data & information external to the main storage is known as?

1.Accumulator

2.PROM

3.Backing storage

4.Buffer

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Question:
COBOL stands is for.....

1.Common Business Object Language

2.Common Beneficial Object Language

3.Common Business Oriented Language

4.Common Beneficial Oriented Language

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Question:
Comment in COBOL is denoted by....

1./

2.;

3.*

4.//

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Question:
D in COBOL stands for....

1.Draft

2.Debugging lines

3.Data

4.Debugger

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Question:
hat does S denote in a picture clause?

1.sign

2.symbol

3.character

4.Alphanumeric sign

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Question:
How many bytes S9(6) USAGE IS COMP-3 will take?

1.3

2.4

3.5

4.6

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Question:
How many bytes will a S9(8) COMP field occupy?

1.4 bytes

2.5 bytes

3.6 bytes

4.8 bytes

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Question:
How records are stored & accessed in sequential file organization?

1.Relative address method

2.Direct access method

3.Sequential access method

4.both b and c

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Question:
In a sort file names used must be in the ........entry:

1.MD

2.FD

3.SD

4.None

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Question:
In which mode you will open the sequential file to append the data in the end:

1.INPUT

2.EXTEND

3.APPEND

4.OUTPUT

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Question:
Indicate which of the following is not a Procedure Division verb:

1.Delete

2.Insert

3.Rewrite

4.Start

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Question:
ndicate in which of the following the REPORT NAME does not appear:

1.INITIATE statement

2.SELECT clause

3.TERMINATE statement

4.RD entry

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Question:
Object Oriented languages:

1.Are based on actions happening to objects

2.Are natural language techniques

3.Are procedural languages

4.Are task oriented

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Question:
Pic 9v99 is a _______ position numeric field with an implied or assumed decimal point after the first position.

1.one

2.two

3.three

4.four

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Question:
The Logical Name of the File will be assigned to:

1.Job Name

2.Step Name

3.Joblib

4.DD Name

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Question:
The.........statement release the resources which are assigned to that file:

1.EXIT

2.END

3.WRITE

4.STOP RUN

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Question:
What does SEARCH ALL do?

1.Sequential search

2.Linear search

3.Binary search

4.None

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Question:
What is the edited value of the picture clause PIC field 9999+ Numeric value moved to the field -382 and the Edited value is

1.3820

2.382

3.3

4.38

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Question:
What is the length of a variable when usage is COMP-2?

1.2

2.4

3.8

4.16

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Question:
When displaying a data-name it _______ be part of an output record:

1.Need not

2.Mustn�t

3.Can�t say

4.Must

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Question:
Where does the FILE-CONTROL paragraph appear?

1.Identification Division

2.Procedure Division

3.Environment Division

4.Data Division

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Question:
Which of the following is not a part of the program division in COBOL?

1.Procedure

2.Environment

3.Identification

4.Compilation

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Question:
Which of the following is valid COBOL word?

1.Gross

2.Over Time

3.B12-4

4.Gross Salary

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Question:
Which of the following storage and retrieval methods would be well suited to your processing requirements if you only need to retrieve records one at a time and there is no fixed pattern to the requests for data and records?

1.sequential

2.indexed sectors

3.indexed direct

4.direct

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Question:
Which of the following word cannot be a user-defined COBOL word?

1.WS-DISPLAY

2.WS-ACCEPT

3.ACCEPT

4.TUTORIAL

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