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Code Snippet: 77 WS-VALUE PIC X(04) VALUE 'ABCD'. 77 WS-OUT-MSG PIC X(05) VALUE SPACES. 77 WS-OUT-LEN PIC S9(4) COMP SYNC VALUE 1. STRING WS-VALUE DELIMITED BY SIZE INTO WS-OUT-MSG WITH POINTER WS-OUT-LEN. What will be the value of WS-VALUE, WS-OUT-MSG & WS-OUT-LEN ?

  1. ABCD, ABCD, 0005

  2. ABCD, , 0004

  3. , ABCD, 0005

  4. ABCD, ABCD, 0004


Correct Option: A
  1. COPY CopyFile1 REPLACING X(3) BY X(19).

  2. COPY CopyFile1 REPLACING XYZ TO 120.

  3. COPY CopyFile1 IN COPYLIB.

  4. COPY CopyFile1.


Correct Option: B

What is the order of divisions in Cobol?

  1. Identification division, Data division, Environment division, Procedure division.

  2. Identification division, File division, Data division, Procedure division.

  3. Identification division, Environment division, Data division, Procedure division.

  4. Identification division, Environment division, Working storage division, procedure division.


Correct Option: C

Code Snippet: 01 Data Pic 99. 88 val1 values are 10 thru 19. Set val1 to true. What is the value of Data ?

  1. Compile error

  2. 10

  3. 0

  4. 19


Correct Option: A
  1. Initialize, Generate & Terminate

  2. Initiate, Write & Terminate

  3. Initiate, Generate & Terminate

  4. Initialize, Generate & End


Correct Option: C

Which one of the following is true about merge verb?

  1. KEY data items can contain an OCCURS clause.

  2. Files must be explicitly opened before using the Merge verb.

  3. OUTPUT PROCEDURE can contain any SORT or MERGE statements.

  4. INPUT PROCEDURE is not present in Merge verb.


Correct Option: D

IMS WAS DEVELOPED IN?

  1. 1968

  2. 1957

  3. 1966

  4. 1969


Correct Option: A

SMALLEST INFORMATION THAT DL/I CAN FETCH, HANDLE?

  1. SEGMENT, FIELD

  2. FIELD, SEGMENT

  3. ROOT,SEGMENT

  4. FIELD , ROOT


Correct Option: A

SELECT CORRECT OPTION.

  1. SEGMENT TYPE IS A PARTICULAR INSTANCE OF A SEGMENT OCCURENCE

  2. SEGMENT OCCURRENCE IS A PARTICULAR INSTANCE OF A SEGMENT TYPE

  3. ALL THE ABOVE

  4. NONE OF THE ABOVE


Correct Option: B