C Programming Viva Questions

1. Which type of language is C?

Ans- C is a high–level language and general-purpose structured programming
language.

2. What is a compiler?
Ans- Compile is a software program that transfer program developed in a
high-level language into executable object code.

3. What is an algorithm?
Ans- The approach or method that is used to solve the problem is called an
algorithm.

4. What is a c token and types of c tokens?

Ans- The smallest individual units are known as C tokens. C has six types of
tokens Keywords, Constants, Identifiers, Strings, Operators and Special symbols.

5. How many Keywords (reserve word)are in C?

Ans- There are 32 Keywords in the C language.

6. What is an identifier?
Ans- Identifiers are user-defined names given to variables, functions and arrays.

7. What are the Back Slash character constants or Escape sequence characters
available in C?
Ans- Back Slash character constant are \t, \n, \0.

8. What is a variable?
Ans- Variables are user-defined names given to memory locations and are used to
store values.A variable may have different values at different times during program
execution.

9. What are the Data Types present in C?

Ans- Primary or Fundamental Data types (int, float, char), Derived
Datatypes(arrays, pointers)and User-Defined data types(structures, unions, enum)

10. How to declare a variable?

Ans-;Example 1: int a, b; Example 2: float p,q;
11. What is meant by initialization and how do we initialize a variable?
Ans- While declaring a variable assigning value is known as initialization. Variable
can be initialized by using assignment operator (=).

12. How many types of operators or there in C?

37. What is a structure?
Ans- The structure is user-defined data typed. The structure is a collective name
given to
dissimilar elements
38. How to excess structure members?
Ans- Structure members can be accessed using the dot operator
39) What are the differences between structures and arrays?
Ans- Structures store dissimilar values whereas arrays stores similar values. One
structure
variable can be assigned to another structure variable whereas one array variable
cannot be
assigned to another array variable
40. What is the size of a structure?
Ans- Sum of all the members size is becomes structure size
41. What is a union?
Ans- Union is a user-defined data type that can store a value of different data types
42. What are the types of files we can create using C?
Ans-We can create text and binary files using C
43. What are the file-handling functions present in C?
Ans- fopen, fclose, fgetc, fputc, fgets, fputs, fprintf, fscanf, fread, fwrite, fseek
44. What are the file opening modes present in C?
Ans- r, w, a, r+, w+, a+, rb, wb, rb+, wb+
45. How to access structure members by their pointer?
Ans- We can use structure members using arrow operator with its pointer
46. What is the difference between normal variable and array variable?
Ans- A variable can store only one value at a time whereas an array variable can
store several
value at a time.
47. How to declare a variable?
Ans- The syntax for declaring the variable is
Ans- Arithmetic Operators (+, -, *, /,%),
Relational Operators (<, <=, >, >=, !=),
LogicalOperators (&&, ||, !),
Assignment Operators (=, +=, -=, *=, /=),
Increment and DecrementOperators (++, –),
Conditional Operator(?:),
Bitwise Operators(<<, >>, ~, &, |, ^)
SpecialOperators (. , ->, &, *, size of)

37. What is a structure?

Ans- The structure is user-defined data typed. The structure is a collective name
given to
dissimilar elements
38. How to excess structure members?
Ans- Structure members can be accessed using the dot operator
39) What are the differences between structures and arrays?
Ans- Structures store dissimilar values whereas arrays stores similar values. One
structure
variable can be assigned to another structure variable whereas one array variable
cannot be
assigned to another array variable
40. What is the size of a structure?
Ans- Sum of all the members size is becomes structure size
41. What is a union?
Ans- Union is a user-defined data type that can store a value of different data types
42. What are the types of files we can create using C?
Ans-We can create text and binary files using C
43. What are the file-handling functions present in C?
Ans- fopen, fclose, fgetc, fputc, fgets, fputs, fprintf, fscanf, fread, fwrite, fseek
44. What are the file opening modes present in C?
Ans- r, w, a, r+, w+, a+, rb, wb, rb+, wb+
45. How to access structure members by their pointer?
Ans- We can use structure members using arrow operator with its pointer
46. What is the difference between normal variable and array variable?
Ans- A variable can store only one value at a time whereas an array variable can
store several
value at a time.
47. How to declare a variable?
Ans- The syntax for declaring the variable is
13. What is a Unary operator and what are the unary operators present in C?
Ans- An operator which takes only one operand is called a unary operator. C unary
operatorsare Unary plus (+), Unary minus (-), Increment and Decrement operators
(++,–), Address ofoperator (&), Value at operator (*), sizeof operator, ones
complement operator (~)

14. What is the use of the modulus (%) operator?

Ans- The modulus operator produces the remainder of an integer division. It
cannot be used on floating-point data

15. What is the use of printf and scanf functions in C?

Ans-Values of variables and results of expressions can be displayed on the screen
using printf functions. Values to variables can be accepted through the keyboard
using scanf function

16. Types of IF statements?

Ans- Simple IF statement, IF-ELSE statement, NESTED IF-ELSE statement and
ELSE IF ladder

17. What is switch satement? Tell its syntax.

18. What is a goto statement?

Ans- goto is an unconditional branching statement which transfers control to the
specified label.

19. What is a loop?

Ans- Loop is a sequence of statements that runs repeatedly.

20. What are loop control statements in C?

Ans- While do-while and for.
21. What are sections present in for loop?
Ans- Initialization section, conditional section and increment/decrement section.

22. What is the use of break statements?

Ans- The break statement is used to exit from the loop.

23. What is an array?

Ans-The array is a collective name given to similar elements.

24. How can we initialize an array?

25. What is the difference between normal variable and array variable?
Ans- A variable can store only one value at a time whereas an array variable can
store severalvalue at a time.

26. What are the types of Arrays?

Ans- A one-Dimensional array, Two-Dimensional array and Multi-Dimensional
array

27. What is a character array?

Ans- An array which can store several characters is called character array

28. What is a function?

Ans- The function is a self-contained block of the statement which is used to
perform a certain task

29. What are the types of functions?

Ans- C functions are divided into two categories user-defined function and built-in
functions

30. Which are called built-in functions?

Ans- Printf, scanf, clrscr, gotoxy, string handling functions and file handling
functions

31. What is a recursive function?

Ans- A function calling itself is called function recursion

32. How to pass an array to a function?

Ans- Arrays are passed to a function by sending its address

33. What is a pointer variable?

Ans- A pointer variable is a variable that can store the address of another variable

34. How can we store the address of a variable is a pointer?

Ans- By using the address of the operator we can store the address of a variable in
a pointer

35. How many bytes does a pointer variable occupies in memory?

Ans- A pointer variable irrespective of its type it occupies two bytes in memory

36. What are storage classes available in C?

37. What is a structure?

Ans- The structure is user-defined data typed. The structure is a collective name
given to dissimilar elements

38. How to excess structure members?

Ans- Structure members can be accessed using the dot operator

39) What are the differences between structures and arrays?

Ans- Structures store dissimilar values whereas arrays stores similar values. One
structure variable can be assigned to another structure variable whereas one array
variable cannot be assigned to another array variable
40. What is the size of a structure?

Ans- Sum of all the members size is becomes structure size

41. What is a union?

Ans- Union is a user-defined data type that can store a value of different data types

42. What are the types of files we can create using C?

Ans-We can create text and binary files using C

43. What are the file-handling functions present in C?

Ans- fopen, fclose, fgetc, fputc, fgets, fputs, fprintf, fscanf, fread, fwrite, fseek

44. What are the file opening modes present in C?

Ans- r, w, a, r+, w+, a+, rb, wb, rb+, wb+

45. How to access structure members by their pointer?

Ans- We can use structure members using arrow operator with its pointer

46. What is the difference between normal variable and array variable?

Ans- A variable can store only one value at a time whereas an array variable can
store several values at a time.