COBOL Interview Questions, Answers for Freshers and Experienced asked in various Company Job Interviews

COBOL Interview Questions

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COMPUTE X = A * B - C * D and COMPUTE X = (A * B) - (C * D) (a) Are not the same (b) Are same (c) Syntactically wrong (d) Will yield a run time error

TCS,

1 6458

OCCURS clause is used in the DATA DIVISION on data names at (a) 01 level (b) 77 level (c) 88 level (d) any level from 02 to 49

TCS,

13 20761

Consider the following COBOL entries: 05 X PIC 99 VALUE 10. SUBTRACT 20 FROM X. The resultant value of X wil be

TCS,

7 15592

Consider the following COBOL entries 05 X PIC 99 VALUE 10. ADD 40 X TO X. COMPUTE X = 3 * X - 40. The result in X is

TCS,

12 19314

given the following piece of code: CALL SUB-PGM USING A, B, C. CALL SUB-PGM USING A, C, C. (a) Both CALL statements will always produce same result. (d) Both CALL statements may produce different result. (c) Compile-time error because SUB-PGM is a dataname. (d) Compile-time error because A, B, C are used twice.

TCS,

2 8602

The hierarchy of the execution of logical operators is (a) NOT AND OR (b) AND OR NOT (c) OR AND NOT (d) OR NOT AND

Huawei, IBM, TCS,

10 33342

The order of precedence of arithmetic operators in an expression can be overridden with the use of (a) [] (b) () (c) {} (d) Any of the above

TCS,

3 9964

Which of the following paragraphs is compulsory in every COBOL program? (a) SPECIAL-NAMES (b) PROGRAM-ID (c) FILE-CONTROL (d) OBJECT-COMPUTER

4 9205

Which of the following files can be OPENed in all the 4 modes? The four modes are INPUT, I-O, OUTPUT and EXTEND. (a) INDEXED (b) RELATIVE (c) SEQUENTIAL (d) All of the above

TCS,

7 15098

Which of the following EDITind and PICTURE symbols is to be used if a minus(-) is to appear before the value if the value is -ve and a plus(+) is to appear before the value if the value is +ve? (a) + (b) - (c) + OR (d) It is not possible

TCS,

7 10167

i Want All cobol ERROR codes?

HCL, IBM,

4 16941

I want ALL jcl ERROR cods

1 10451

I want ALL ERROR codes in VSAM

American Express, TCS,

3 34615

i WANT ALL ERROR codes IN CICS and DB2

2 7757

i want all ERRORS codes in COBOL ,JCL,VSAM ,DB2,CICS

Infosys,

4 14654

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Un-Answered Questions { COBOL }

what is the use of outrecord?

2215

What is the difference between external and global variables in COBOL?

1462

what are decleratives in cobol?

2259

) how do u code after getting data?

2150

Write a program that uses move corresponding.

1144

What are literals?

1132

Which mode is used to operate the sequential file?

1205

In which area will you utilize 88 level items in cobol?

1161

I have a File that has duplicate records. I need only those records that occur more than thrice.?

9887

What is amode(24), amode(31), rmode(24) and rmode(any) (applicable to only mvsesa enterprise server) ?

1203

Name some of the examples of COBOl 11?

3140

Differentiate between structured cobol programming and object-oriented cobol programming.

1147

how do you reference the variable unblock file formats from cobol programs

1328

How to remove 2 duplicate records and copy only one using job control language?

1218

How many bytes S(8) comp field occupy and its maximum value?

2140

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