COBOL Programming Interview Questions: COBOL Job Interview Preparation
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The Ultimate Reference & Learning Guide for COBOL programming careers!
Over 150 Certification Questions, Answers, and Explanations
It’s clear that even today global demand for COBOL programmers is robust. Practitioners who wish to remain competitive in the global market need new resources. And finding these resources can be difficult. This book is the direct response to demand for information you can use right now in your programming career. Over 150 COBOL Interview Questions, Answers, and Explanations guide you through the learning process. From helping you to assess your COBOL skills to evaluating candidates for a job, COBOL Interview Questions, Answers, & Explanations will help you understand what you really need to know and what you can safely ignore. The book is organized around COBOL’s defining features, standards, and common applications. Each question includes everything you need to know to master the interview or properly evaluate a candidate, and is based on project knowledge and experience gained on successful high-profile COBOL implementations. Key certification and interview topics include: COBOL standards, Challenges with configuration and platforms like CICS. This book also includes code samples, and information about synthesis, interoperability, and system monitoring and security.
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COBOL Programming Interview Questions - Equity Press
COBOL Programming Interview Questions, Answers and Explanations
By Terry Sanchez-Clark
ITCOOKBOOK
COBOL Programming Interview Questions and Answers Book
978-1-60332-238-6
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Compiled by Terry Sanchez-Clark
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Question 01: Sections in Data Division
Question 02: Dynamic or a Static Module
Question 03: Advantages of VS COBOL II Over OS/VS COBOL
Question 04: Steps in Creating a COBOL Program
Question 05: Compiling a Program without Errors
Question 06: Difference between Dynamic and Static in COBOL
Question 07: Associating Files with External Data Sets
Question 08: Definition of File in Operating System
Question 09: Use of Declaratives in COBOL
Question 10: Difference between PIC 9.99 and 9v99
Question 11: Use of the Common Attribute
Question 12: Picture 9v99
Question 13: Local-Storage Section
Question 14: Passing by Reference
Question 15: Passing by Content
Question 16: Guidelines in Writing a Structured COBOL Program
Question 17: Data Types in COBOL
Question 18: Resolving SOC-7 Error
Question 19: Structures of COBOL Subroutine
Question 20: Difference of Next Sentence and Continue
Question 21: Structured COBOL and Object Oriented COBOL
Question 22: COMP Preference
Question 23: Bytes & Digits in S9 (10) COMP
Question 24: Defining Hexadecimal Item in a Value Clause
Question 25: Number of Decimal Digits
Question 26: Scope Terminator
Question 27: Dimensions for a Table
Question 28: Subscripts Allowed for an Occurs Clause
Question 29: IS NUMERIC Clause
Question 30: Redefines Clause
Question 31: Difference between OS COBOL and VS COBOL
Question 32: Static and Dynamic Linking
Question 33: SECTION and PARAGRAPH Difference
Question 34: Next and Continue Verbs for File Handling
Question 35: Submit Job from COBOL Programs
Question 36: File Status 39
Question 37: SSRANGE and NOSSRANGE
Question 38: Application of SEARCH
Question 39: Rules to Perform a Serial Search
Question 40: Open Modes in COBOL
Question 41: Rules in Performing a Binary Search
Question 42: How Binary Search Works
Question 43: Difference between Binary and Sequential Search
Question 44: Internal and External Sort
Question 45: Rewrite and Delete in ESDS File
Question 46: Perform Test Before and After
Question 47: Coding an In-line Perform
Question 48: WHEN Clause Significance
Question 49: INITIALIZE Default Values
Question 50: Set to True
Question 51: Length in COBOL II
Question 52: Delimiter