 All RF Cafe Quizzes make great fodder for
employment interviews for technicians or engineers - particularly those who are
fresh out of school or are relatively new to the work world. Come to think of it,
they would make equally excellent study material for the same persons who are going
to be interviewed for a job. Bonne chance, Viel Glück, がんばろう,
buena suerte, удачи, in bocca al lupo, 행운을 빕니다,
ádh mór, בהצלחה, lykke til, 祝你好運.
Well, you know what I mean: Good luck!
Click here for the complete list of
RF Cafe Quizzes.
Note: Some material based on books have quoted passages.
This "Recent Tech Headlines Quiz" challenges
your ability to recall items from the homepage "Electronics & Tech
Headlines" column for the week of March 13, 2023. Except for the
questions and answers which I modified (and added two more sets), every line of JavaScript code for this multiple-choice
quiz was generated based on a query made to the ChatGPT engine from OpenAI. It
also generated code for the PHP language, and will presumable do so for many other
computer languages. Just for the heck of it, I had ChatGPT generate a version of
the quiz code in the COBOL language. COBOL, if you are old
enough to recall, the a primary mainframe computer language before the PC era,
and was a big deal during the run-up to
Y2K because legacy code could not handle
the century change. Lots of gray-haired, retired
COBOL programmers made big
bucks helping coders port code to C++, Delphi, Linux, Unix, and other
more modern languages - and modifying COBOL code to be able to make the 1999 to
2000 year change.
Select your answers, then click the "Submit" button.
COBOL Code for the Same Quiz:
IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.
PROGRAM-ID. QUIZ.
ENVIRONMENT DIVISION.
INPUT-OUTPUT SECTION.
FILE-CONTROL.
SELECT CONSOLE ASSIGN TO CRT.
DATA
DIVISION.
WORKING-STORAGE SECTION.
01 SCORE PIC 99 VALUE ZERO.
01 Q1
PIC X(80) VALUE "What is the capital of France?".
01 A1 PIC X(80) VALUE "A.
Madrid".
01 A2 PIC X(80) VALUE "B. Rome".
01 A3 PIC X(80) VALUE "C.
Berlin".
01 A4 PIC X(80) VALUE "D. Paris".
01 Q2 PIC X(80) VALUE "What is
the largest country in the world?".
01 B1 PIC X(80) VALUE "A. Canada".
01
B2 PIC X(80) VALUE "B. Russia".
01 B3 PIC X(80) VALUE "C. Australia".
01
B4 PIC X(80) VALUE "D. China".
01 Q3 PIC X(80) VALUE "What is the chemical
symbol for gold?".
01 C1 PIC X(80) VALUE "A. Go".
01 C2 PIC X(80) VALUE
"B. Ag".
01 C3 PIC X(80) VALUE "C. Au".
01 C4 PIC X(80) VALUE "D. Ge".
PROCEDURE DIVISION.
MAIN-LOGIC.
DISPLAY "Welcome to the quiz!".
DISPLAY
"Answer the following questions by typing in A, B, C, or D".
DISPLAY Q1.
DISPLAY A1.
DISPLAY A2.
DISPLAY A3.
DISPLAY A4.
ACCEPT A1-ANSWER.
IF A1-ANSWER = "D" THEN
ADD 1 TO SCORE
END-IF.
DISPLAY Q2.
DISPLAY
B1.
DISPLAY B2.
DISPLAY B3.
DISPLAY B4.
ACCEPT B2-ANSWER.
IF
B2-ANSWER = "B" THEN
ADD 1 TO SCORE
END-IF.
DISPLAY Q3.
DISPLAY C1.
DISPLAY C2.
DISPLAY C3.
DISPLAY C4.
ACCEPT C3-ANSWER.
IF C3-ANSWER =
"C" THEN
ADD 1 TO SCORE
END-IF.
DISPLAY "Your score is: ", SCORE.
DISPLAY "Here are the correct answers:".
DISPLAY "Question 1: ", Q1.
DISPLAY "Correct answer: D".
DISPLAY "Question 2: ", Q2.
DISPLAY "Correct
answer: B".
DISPLAY "Question 3: ", Q3.
DISPLAY "Correct answer: C".
STOP RUN.
Posted March 20, 2023
|
