Test 2

Question 1

a function that calls itself

Answer 1

recursive function

Question 2

depth of recursion

Answer 2

the number of times a recursive function will be called

Question 3

stops a recursive function

Answer 3

base case

Question 4

direct recursion

Answer 4

a function that calls itself

Question 5

indirect recursion

Answer 5

2 functions that recursively call each other

Question 6

used for file output

Answer 6

ofstream

Question 7

used for file input

Answer 7

ifstream

Question 8

used for both file I/O

Answer 8

fstream

Question 9

a sequence from which data can be read

Answer 9

input stream

Question 10

a sequence to which data can be written

Answer 10

output stream

Question 11

used for reading/writing strings

Answer 11

stringstream

Question 12

flushing the buffer

Answer 12

file data is written to the disk upon closing the file

Question 13

to continue file operations once it has been read through

Answer 13

file.clear()

Question 14

defines how a file can be used

Answer 14

file open mode

Question 15

file open modes

Answer 15

app, ate, binary, in, out, trunc

Question 16

what is the vertical line ( | ) symbol?

Answer 16

binary or

Question 17

what are the I/O manipulators

Answer 17

setw(), fixed, show point, setprecision(), left, right

Question 18

file condition bit flags

Answer 18

eofbit, failbit, hardfail, badbit, goodbit

Question 19

standard delimit char for&raquo_space;

Answer 19

whitespace

Question 20

standard delimit char for get line()

Answer 20

‘\n’

Question 21

member functions that can be used to read single characters:

Answer 21

get

Question 22

streams version of get()

Answer 22

put()

Question 23

“places” for seekg()

Answer 23

beg, cur, end

Question 24

to “rewind” a file from the end

Answer 24

file. clear();

file. seekg(0L, ios::beg);

Question 25

a derived class pointer can always be assigned to

Answer 25

a base class pointer

Question 26

a base class pointer can point to a derived class with the use of a

Answer 26

type cast

Question 27

a function is polymorphic if

Answer 27

different types of data produce different behavior

Question 28

when the compiler selects the code that should be executed when the function name is invoked

Answer 28

binding

Question 29

code gets selected at compile time

Answer 29

static binding

Question 30

code gets selected at run time

Answer 30

dynamic binding

Question 31

a member function for which the class provides no implementation

Answer 31

pure virtual function (PVF)

Question 32

PVF is also called

Answer 32

an abstract function

Question 33

a class with a PVF is

Answer 33

an abstract class

Question 34

are abstract classes allowed

Answer 34

No

Question 35

the type of derived class is a special case of the base class

Answer 35

class inheritance

Question 36

when a class contains an obj of another class as a member var

Answer 36

class composition

Question 37

“is-a” relationship

Answer 37

class inheritance

Question 38

“has-a” relationship

Answer 38

class composition

Question 39

which is preferred? inheritance or composition

Answer 39

composition

Question 40

empty class used for throwing

Answer 40

exception class

Question 41

“generic” function that can work with different data types

Answer 41

function template

Question 42

template

Answer 42

template prefix

Question 43

two structures in the STL are the

Answer 43

containers and iterators

Question 44

two types of containers in the STL

Answer 44

sequential and associative containers

Question 45

types of sequential containers

Answer 45

vectors, deque, list

Question 46

adds memory to the BEGINNING of an array

Answer 46

deque

Question 47

linked structure

Answer 47

list

Question 48

like an array

Answer 48

vector

Question 49

associative containers

Answer 49

set, multiset, map, multimap

Question 50

items used to access items stored in containers

Answer 50

iterators