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MCQs of c++ Exam
1. If the class name is X, what is the type of its “this” pointer
(in a nonstatic, non-const member function)?

a. const X* const

b. X* const

c. X*

d. X&

2. Which classes allow primitive types to be accessed as

objects?

a. Storage

b. Virtual

c. Friend

d. Wrapper 
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3. When is std::bad_alloc exception thrown?

a. When new operator cannot allocate memory

b. When alloc function fails

c. When type requested for new operation is considered bad,

thisexception is thrown

d. When delete operator cannot delete the allocated

(corrupted) object

4. Which one of the following is not a fundamental data

type in C++

a. float

b. string

c. int

d. wchar_t

5. Which of the following is a valid destructor of the class

name “Country”

a. int ~Country()

b. void Country()

c. int ~Country(Country obj)

d. void ~Country()

6. Which of the following correctly describes C++ language?

a. Statically typed language

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b. Dynamically typed language

c. Both Statically and dynamically typed language

d. Type-less language

7. Which of the following keyword supports dynamic

method resolution?

a. abstract

b. Virtual

c. Dynamic

d. Typeid

8. Which of the following is the most preferred way of

throwing and handling exceptions?

a. Throw by value and catch by reference.

b. Throw by reference and catch by reference.

c. Throw by value and catch by value

d. Throw the pointer value and provide catch for the pointer type.

9. Which of the following is not true about preprocessor

directives

a. They begin with a hash symbol

b. They are processed by a preprocessor

c. They form an integral part of the code

d. They have to end with a semi colon 

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10. What’s wrong? while( (i < 10) && (i > 24))

a. the logical operator && cannot be used in a test condition

b. the while loop is an exit-condition loop

c. the test condition is always false

d. the test condition is always true

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11. A continue statement causes execution to skip to

a. the return 0; statement

b. the first statement after the loop

c. the statement following the continue statement

d. the next iteration of the loop

12. What’s wrong? (x = 4 && y = 5) ? (a = 5) ; (b = 6);

a. the question mark should be an equal sign

b. the first semicolon should be a colon

c. there are too many variables in the statement

d. the conditional operator is only used with apstrings

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13. What’s wrong? for (int k = 2, k <=12, k++)

a. the increment should always be ++k

b. the variable must always be the letter i when using a for

loop

c. there should be a semicolon at the end of the statement

d. the commas should be semicolons

14. Which of the following is not recommended in a header

file?

a. Type definitions (typedefs)

b. Class definitions

c. Function definitions

d. Template definitions

15. Which of the STL containers store the elements

contiguously (in adjacent memory locations)?

a. std::vector

b. std::list

c. std::map

d. std::set

16. Which of the following is not a standard exception built

in C++.


a. std::bad_creat

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b. std::bad_alloc

c. std::bad_cast

d. std::bad_typeid

17. What does STL stand for?

a. Simple Template Library

b. Standard Template Library

c. Static Type Library

d. Single Type-based Library

18. What is the difference between overloaded functions

and overridden functions?

a. Overloading is a dynamic or run-time binding and Overriding is

static or compile-time binding

b. Redefining a function in a friend class is called function

overriding while Redefining a function in a derived class is
called an overloaded function.

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c. Overloading is a static or compile-time binding and Overriding is

dynamic or run-time binding

d. Redefining a function in a friend class is called function overloading

while Redefining a function in a derived class is called as overridden
function.

19. Which one of the following is not a valid reserved

keyword in C++

a. Explicit

b. Public

c. Implicit

d. Private

20. Each pass through a loop is called a/an

a. enumeration

b. iteration

c. culmination

d. pass through

21. Which of the following is true about const member

functions?
a. const members can be invoked on both const as well as nonconst
objects
b. const members can be invoked only on const objects and
not on nonconst objects
c. nonconst members can be invoked on const objects as well as
nonconst objects
d. none of the above
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22. Which of the following relationship is known as

inheritancerelationship?
a. ‘has-a’ relationship
b. ‘is-a’ relationship
c. association relationship
d. none of the above

23. If class A is friend of class B and if class B is friend of

class C, which of the following is true?
a. Class C is friend of class A
b. Class A is friend of class C
c. Class A and Class C do not have any friend relationship
d. None of the above

24. A direct access file is:

a. A file in which recoreds are arranged in a way they are inserted in a
file
b. A file in which records are arranged in a particular order
c. Files which are stored on a direct access storage medium
d. None of the above

25. Which of the following is not a component of file system

a. Access method
b. Auxiliary storage management
c. Free integrity mechanism
d. None of the above

26. Seek time is

a. time taken to retrieve a dta
b. Time taken by read/write head mechanism to position itself over
appropriate cylinder
c. Time taken by appropriate sector to come under read/write
d. None of the above

27. ‘Prime area’ in context of file system is defined as

a. It is memory area created by operating system

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b. It is an area into which data records are written

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c. It is the main area of a web page

d. None of the above

28. In mulit-list organization

a. Records that have equivalent value for a given secondary index item
are linked together to form a list.
b. Records are loaded in ordered sequence defined by
collating sequence by content of the key
c. Records are directly accessed by record key field
d. None of the above

29. Which of the following is/are advantages of cellular

partitioned structure:
a. Simultaneous read operations can be overlapped
b. Search time is reduced
c. Both a & b
d. None of the above

30. *ptr++ is equivalenet to:

a. ptr++
b. *ptr
c. ++*ptr
d. None of the above

31. The conditional compilation

a. It is taken care of by the compiler
b. It is setting the compiler option conditionally
c. It is compiling a program based on a condition
d. none of above

32. Originally ‘C’ was developed as:

a. System programming language
b. General purpose language
c. Data processing language
d. None of above

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33. An inverted file
a. Locates information about data in small files that are maintained

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apart from actual data record

b. A file which stores opposite records
c. A file which stores information about records of a system
d. None of above

34. Which of the following is not a file operation:

a. Repositioning
b. Truncating
c. Appending
d. None of above

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35. Latency time is:

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a. Time taken by read/write head mechanism to position itself over
appropriate cylinder
b. Time taken to transfer a dta from memory
c. Time taken by appropriate sector to come under read/write head
d. None of above

36. The two types of file structure existing in VSAM file are
a. Key sequenced structure, entry sequenced structure
b. Key sequence structure, exit sequenced structure
c. Entry sequence structure, exit sequenced structure
d. None of above

37. How many copies of a class static member are shared

between objects of the class?
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b. A copy is created only when at least one object is created from that
class
c. A copy of the static member is created for each
instntiation of the class
d. No memory is allocated for static members of a class

38. Which looping process checks the test condition at the

end of the loop?
a. for
b. while
c. do-while
d. no looping process checks the test condition at the end

39. The default access level assigned to members of a class

is ___________
a. Private
b. Public
c. Protected
d. Needs to be assigned

40. Which of the following correctly describes the meaning

of‘namespace’ feature in C++?
a. Namespaces refer to the memory space allocated for
names used in a program
b. Namespaces refer to space between the names in a program
c. Namespaces refer to packing structure of classes in a program.
d. Namespaces provide facilities for organizing the names in aprogram
to avoid name clashes.

41. Which of the following correctly describes the meaning

of ‘namespace’ feature in C++?
a. Namespaces refer to the memory space allocated for names used in
a program
b. Namespaces refer to space between teh names in a program
c. Namespaces refer to space between the names in a program
d. namespaces provide facilities for organizing the names


in a program to avoid name clashes

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42. Which of the following language is not supported by

C++?
a. Exception Handling
b. Reflection
c. Operator Overloading
d. Namespaces

43. class derived: public base1, public base2 { } is an

example of
a. Polymorphic inheritance
b. Multilevel inheritance
c. Hierarchical inheritance
d. Multiple inheritance

44. Which of the following languages is a subset of C++

language?
a. C language
b. Java Language
c. C# language
d. language

45. How do we declare an ‘interface’ class?

a. By making all the methods pure virtual in a class
b. By making all the methods abstract using the keyword ‘abstract’ in a
class
c. By declaring the class as interface with the keyword ‘interface’
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46. How do we declare an abstract class?

a. By providing at least one pure virtual method (function
signature followed by ==0;) in a class
b. By declaring at least one method abstract using the keyword
‘abstract’ in a class
c. By declaring the class abstract with the keyword ‘abstract’
d. It is not possible to create abstract classes in C++

47. Which of the following is not an advantage of secondary

memory
a. It is cost-effective
b. It has large storage capacity
c. It has highest speed
d. It is easily portable

48. What happens when a pointer is deleted twice?

a. It can abort the program
b. It can cause a failure
c. It can cause an error
d. It can cause a trap

49. Which of the following language feature is not an access

specifier in C++?
a. public
b. private
c. C protected
d. internal

50. Expression C=i++ causes

a. Value of i assigned to C and then i incremented by 1
b. i to be incremented by 1 and then value of i assigned to C
c. Value of i assigned to C
d. i to be incremented by 1

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51. The statement i++; is equivalent to


a. i = i + i;
b. i = i + 1;

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c. i = i – 1;
d. i –;

52. In C language, a hexadecimal number is represented by

writing
a. x
b. xo
c. ox
d. h

53. Which of the following library function below by default

aborts the program?
a. Terminate()
b. end()
c. Abort()
d. exit()

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54. If a member needs to have unique value for all the

objects of that same class, declare the member as
a. Global variable outside class
b. Local variable inside constructor
c. Static variable inside class

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d. Dynamic variable inside class

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55. Value of ix+j, if i,j are integer type and ix long type
would be
a. integer
b. float
c. long integer
d. double percision

56. Which of the following below can perform conversions

between pointers to related classes?
a. cast_static
b. dynamic_cast
c. static_cast
d. cast_dynamic

57. How do we define a constructor?

a. x~() {}
b. X() {}~
c. X() ~{}
d. ~X() {}

58. Vtables
a. creates a static table per class
b. creates a static table per object
c. creates a dynamic table per class
d. creates a dynamic table per object

59. When class B is inherited from class A, what is the order

in which the constructers of those classes are called
a. Class A first Class B next
b. Class B first Class A next
c. Class B’s only as it is the child class
d. Class A’s only as it is the parent class

60. Which of the following is the most general exception

handler that catches exception of any type?
a. catch(std::exception)


b. catch(std::any_exception)

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c. catch(…)
d. catch()

61. Which of the following is the most general exception

handler that catches exception of ‘any type’?
a. catch(std::exception)
b. catch(std::any_exception)
c. catch(…)
d. catch()

62. In a group of nested loops, which loop is executed the

most number of times?
a. the outermost loop
b. the innermost loop
c. all loops are executed the same number of times
d. cannot be determined without knowing the size of the loops

63. What is the Difference between struct and class in terms

of Access Modifier?
a. By default all the struct members are private while by default class
members are public.
b. By default all the struct members are protected while by
default class members are private.
c. By default all the struct members are public while by default class
members are private.
d. By default all the struct members are public while by default class
members are protected.

64. Inline functions are invoked at the time of

a. Run time
b. Compile time
c. Depends on how it is invoked
d. Both b and c above

65. What is shallow copy?

a. A shallow copy creates a copy of the dynamically allocated objects


too.
b. A shallow copy just copies the values of the data as they

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are.
c. A shallow copy creates a copy of the statically allocated objects too
d. Both b and c above

66. What is deep copy?

a. A deep copy creates a copy of the dynamically allocated objects too.
b. A deep copy just copies the values of the data as they are.
c. A deep copy creates a copy of the statically allocated objects too
d. Both b and c above

67. Which of the following below is /are a valid iterator

type?
a. Input Iterator
b. Backward Iterator
c. Forward Iterator
d. Both a and c above

68. What defines a general set of operations that will be

applied to various types of data?
a. Template class
b. Function template
c. Class template
d. Both a and c above

69. Under which of the following circumstances,

synchronization takes place?
a. When the file is closed
b. When the buffer is empty
c. Explicitly, with manipulators
d. both a and c

70. Which of the following functions below can be used

Allocate space for array in memory?
a. calloc()
b. malloc()
c. Realloc()


d. both a and b

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71. Statement scanf(“%d”,80);

a. Assign an integer to variable i
b. Give an error message
c. Print the value of i
d. Assign an float to variable i

72. STL is based on which of the following programming

paradigms?
a. Structured Programming
b. Object Oriented Programming (OOP)
c. Functional Programming
d. Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP)

73. STL is based on which of the following

programmingparadigms?
a. Structured Programming
b. Object Oriented Programming (OOP)
c. Functional Programming
d. Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP)

74. If there is more than one statement in the block of a for

loop, which of the following must be placed at the beginning
and the ending of the loop block?
a. parentheses ( )
b. braces { }
c. brackets [ ].
d. arrows < >

75. Which of the following members do get inherited but

become private members in child class
a. Public
b. Private
c. Protected
d. All the above

76. Which looping process is best used when the number of


iterations is known?
a. for

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b. while
c. do-while
d. all looping processes require that the iterations be known

77. In a C language ‘3’ represents

a. A digit
b. An integer
c. A character
d. A word

78. Which of the following is the most common way of

implementing C++?
a. C++ programs are directly compiled into native code by a compiler
b. C++ programs are first compiled to intermediate code by a compiler
and then executed by a virtual machine
c. C++ programs are interpreted by an interpreter
d. A C++ editor directly compiles and executes the program

79. What is the benefit of c++ input and output over c input and
output?
a. Both Type safety & Exception
b. Sequence container
c. Exception
d. Type safety

80. Which of the following operators can be implemented

as a nonmember operator?
#NAME?
b. () (function call operator)
c. [. (array access operator)
d. + (addition operator)

81. What is the implicit pointer that is passed as the first

argument for nonstatic member functions?
a. ‘self’ pointer
b. std::auto_ptr pointer


c. ‘Myself’ pointer
d. ‘this’ pointer

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82. Which of the following operators can be overloaded?

a. . (dot or member access operator)
b. & (address-of operator)
c. sizeof operator
d. ?: (conditional operator)

83. Which of the following operator cannot be overloaded?

#NAME?
b. == (equality operator)
c. –> (row operator)
d. :: (cope resolution operator)

84. Which of the following operators below allow to define

the member functions of a class outside the class?

a. ::
b. ?
c. 😕
d. %

85. Which of the following is not a valid conditional

inclusions in preprocessor directives
a. #ifdef
b. #ifundef
c. #endif
d. #elif

86. Which of the following is not a standard exception built

in C++.
a. std::bad_creat
b. std::bad_alloc
c. std::bad_cast
d. std::bad_typeid

87. If a member needs to have unique value for all the

objects of that same class, declare the member as


a. Global variable outside class
b. Local variable inside constructor

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c. Static variable inside class

d. Dynamic variable inside class

88. Under which of the following circumstances,

synchronization takes place?
a. When the file is closed
b. When the buffer is empty
c. Explicitly, with manipulators
d. both a and c

89. Which of the following functions below can be used

Allocate space for array in memory?
a. calloc()
b. malloc()
c. Realloc()
d. both a and b

90. Which of the following is not a valid conditional

inclusions in preprocessor directives
a. #ifdef
b. #ifundef
c. #endif
d. #elif

91. Value of a in a = (b = 5, b + 5); is

a. Junk value
b. Syntax error
c. 5
d. 10

92. Minimum number of temporary variable needed to

swap the contents of 2 variables is:
a. 1
b. 2
c. 3
d. 0

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93. How structures and classes in C++ differ?

a. Structures by default hide every member whereas classes do not
b. In Structures, members are public by default whereas, in
Classes, they are private by default
c. Structures cannot have private members whereas classes can have
d. In Structures, members are private by default whereas, in Classes,
they are public by default

94. There is nothing like a virtual constructor of a class.

a. False
b. True

95. C++ provides facility to specify that the compiler should

match function calls with the correct definition at the run
time. This process is called as
a. Static binding
b. Dynamic Binding

96. The output of this program is

int
main () { cout << “Hello World!” return 0; }
a. Hello World
b. Syntax error
c. 0
d. Hello World!

97. The return value of the following code is

Class1& test(Class1 obj)

{
Class1 *ptr = new Class1();
………
return ptr;
}
a. object of Class1
b. reference to ptr
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c. reference of Class1
d. object pointed by ptr

98. The output of

{
int a = 5;
int b = 10;
cout << (a>b?a:b);
}

a. 5
b. 10
c. Syntax error
d. None of above

99. The output of this program is

int a = 10;
void main()
{
int a = 20;
cout << a << ::a;
}
a. Syntax error
b. 10 20
c. 20 10
d. 20 20

100. Observe following program and answer

class Example{
public: int a,b,c;
Example(){a=b=c=1;} //Constructor 1
Example(int a){a = a; b = c = 1;} //Constructor 2
Example(int a,int b){a = a; b = b; c = 1;} //Constructor 3
Example(int a,int b,int c){ a = a; b = b; c = c;} //Constructor
4 
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}
In the above example of constructor overloading, the
following statement will call which constructor
Example obj = new Example (1,2,3);
a. Constructor 2
b. Constructor 4
c. Constrcutor 1
d. Type mismatch error

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