Misc

Question 1

Scope of Names

Answer 1

Declared names are only valid within the name’s scope.

Must be declared before it is called and be within the boundaries of braces

Question 2

Swapping

Answer 2

Assign y’s value to x and x’s value to y

Requires a third variable to temporarily hold one value while the other is copied over.

Question 3

Unit Testing

Answer 3

Process of individually testing a small part of a program

Question 4

Testbench

Answer 4

aka Test Harness

Program whose purpose is to check that a function returns correct output values for a variety of input values

Question 5

Test Vector

Answer 5

Unique set of input values

Question 6

Border Cases

Answer 6

Fringe scenarios in test vectors

Question 7

Reference Variable

Answer 7

Refers to another variable

Question 8

Object

Answer 8

Internal data plus operations that can be performed on that data

Question 9

ostream

Answer 9

Output Stream
Class that supports output via #include
Uses the insertion operator (<

Question 10

istream

Answer 10

Input Stream
Class that supports input via #include
Uses extraction operator (»)

Question 11

Manipulator

Answer 11

Used for output formatting with &laquo_space;or&raquo_space;

Question 12

Polymorphism

Answer 12

Determining which program behavior to execute depending on data types

Question 13

Exception-handling constructs

Answer 13

aka try, throw, catch

Keeps error-checking code separate to reduce redundant checks