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COBOL stands is for.....

1. Common Business Object Language
2. Common Beneficial Object Language
3. Common Business Oriented Language
4. Common Beneficial Oriented Language

✅ Correct Answer: 3

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

1. Procedure
2. Environment
3. Identification
4. Compilation

✅ Correct Answer: 1

D in COBOL stands for....

1. Draft
2. Debugging lines
3. Data
4. Debugger

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Comment in COBOL is denoted by....

1. /
2. ;
3. *
4. //

✅ Correct Answer: 3

hat does S denote in a picture clause?

1. sign
2. symbol
3. character
4. Alphanumeric sign

✅ Correct Answer: 3

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

1. 2
2. 4
3. 8
4. 16

✅ Correct Answer: 3

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

1. INPUT
2. EXTEND
3. APPEND
4. OUTPUT

✅ Correct Answer: 2

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

✅ Correct Answer: 3

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

1. 3
2. 4
3. 5
4. 6

✅ Correct Answer: 1

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

1. WS-DISPLAY
2. WS-ACCEPT
3. ACCEPT
4. TUTORIAL

✅ Correct Answer: 3

What does SEARCH ALL do?

1. Sequential search
2. Linear search
3. Binary search
4. None

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Where does the FILE-CONTROL paragraph appear?

1. Identification Division
2. Procedure Division
3. Environment Division
4. Data Division

✅ Correct Answer: 3

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

1. INITIATE statement
2. SELECT clause
3. TERMINATE statement
4. RD entry

✅ Correct Answer: 2

The Logical Name of the File will be assigned to:

1. Job Name
2. Step Name
3. Joblib
4. DD Name

✅ Correct Answer: 4

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

1. 4 bytes
2. 5 bytes
3. 6 bytes
4. 8 bytes

✅ Correct Answer: 1

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

1. Delete
2. Insert
3. Rewrite
4. Start

✅ Correct Answer: 2

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

✅ Correct Answer: 3

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

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Object Oriented languages:

1. Are based on actions happening to objects
2. Are natural language techniques
3. Are procedural languages
4. Are task oriented

✅ Correct Answer: 1

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

1. Need not
2. Mustn�t
3. Can�t say
4. Must

✅ Correct Answer: 1

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

1. Set
2. Alter
3. Move
4. both A and B

✅ Correct Answer: 1

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

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Which of the following is valid COBOL word?

1. Gross
2. Over Time
3. B12-4
4. Gross Salary

✅ Correct Answer: 3

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

✅ Correct Answer: 3

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

1. MD
2. FD
3. SD
4. None

✅ Correct Answer: 3

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

1. EXIT
2. END
3. WRITE
4. STOP RUN

✅ Correct Answer: 4

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