000-041 by IBM Valid Free Exam Practice Test

Question 1

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What is the most appropriate declaration for the variable A?
A = '10010001'B;

A. OCL A CHAR(2); B. OCL A BIT(8); C. OCL A BIN FIXED(15); D. OCL A PlC '9999999';

Correct Answer: B

Question 2

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Which of the following is NOT a valid way to set a pointer P to zero?

A. UNSPEC(P) = "B; B. P = PTRVALUE(0); C. P = SYSNULL(); D. P = 0;

Correct Answer: D

Question 3

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If the physical dataset referred to by DDOUT has a record length of 200 and RECFM=F, what happens after executing the following code?
DCL DDOUT FILE RECORD OUTPUT;
DCL OUT_CHAR CHAR(200) INIT('HeIlo World'); WRITE FILE(DDOUT) FROM(OUT_CHAR);

A. One record with a length of 200 will be written to the output file. B. One record with a length of 11 will be written to the output file. C. Runtime error because there is no OPEN statement. D. Compiler error because there is no OPEN statement.

Correct Answer: A

Question 4

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What will be the output of the following program?
MAIN: PROC OPTIONS(MAIN);
DCL A CONTROLLED FIXED BIN(31);
DCL B CONTROLLED FIXED B IN(31);
DCL JX FIXED BIN(31);
DO JX= 1 TO 4;
ALLOC A;
A = JX;
END;
DO WHILE( ALLOCN(A)> 0);
ALLOC B;
B = A;
FREE A; END;
DO WHILE( ALLOCN(B) > 0);
PUT SKIP LIST( B);
FREE B;
END;
END;

A. 4444 B. 1234 C. 1111 D. 4321

Correct Answer: B

Question 5

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Given the following declarations, which code is always a valid way to test if the value of B is 7?
DCL P POINTER NIT (NULL());
DCL B FIXED BIN (31) BASED (P);

A. IF P ^= NULL() ! B = 7
THEN PUT ('OK'); B. IF B ^ = 7 THEN; ELSE
PUT ('OK'); C. IF B = 7
THEN PUT ('OK'); D. IF ^ = NULL() THEN IF B = 7 THEN
PUT ('OK');

Correct Answer: D

Question 6

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What is the result of executing the following code?
DCLA BIN FIXED(31) INIT(10000);
DCL B BIN FIXED(15) INIT(8000);
B = B/A;

A. The value of B is 0. B. The value of B is 0.8. C. The value of B is 1. D. CONVERSION would be raised.

Correct Answer: A

Question 7

In order to use a pointer to access the variable in the following program, with what storage class should Y be declared?

A. BASED B. STATIC C. CONTROLLED D. PROC OPTIONS(MAIN);
DCLX FIXED BIN(31) BASED;
DCL P POINTER;
P = FUNC();
PUT SKIP LIST( P->X);
FUNC: PROC RETURNS( POINTER);
DCL Y FIXED BIN(31) INIT(17);
DCL P POINTER;
P = ADDR(Y);
RETURN( P);
END;
END;
AUTOMATIC

Correct Answer: B

Question 8

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Given the following code, with what attribute should the variable EOF be declared?
DO WHILE(^EOF);

A. FIXED BIN (7) B. CHAR (1) C. FIXED DEC (3) D. BIT (1)

Correct Answer: D

Question 9

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Which of the following is NOT mandatory for an external function procedure and its usage?

A. ENTRY declaration with the RETURNS attribute. B. RETURNS option on the PROCEDURE statement. C. Using the RETURN statement to return control and a result value. D. Using SWALUE parameters exclusively.

Correct Answer: D

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