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 6541

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 21227

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

TCS,

7 15881

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 19715

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 8704

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 33657

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 10131

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

4 9371

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 15334

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 10385

i Want All cobol ERROR codes?

HCL, IBM,

4 17115

I want ALL jcl ERROR cods

1 10528

I want ALL ERROR codes in VSAM

American Express, TCS,

3 34744

i WANT ALL ERROR codes IN CICS and DB2

2 7876

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

Infosys,

4 14836

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Un-Answered Questions { COBOL }

Difference between cobol and cobol-ii?

1347

What are the different rules for performing sort operation?

1283

What are various search techniques in cobol? Explain.

1114

Discuss about changing dataset name in proc.

1296

if we have " ibm mainframe ",in that how to remove first and last leading space eg:"ibm mainframe" like that the answer we need

1388

Whats the difference between search & search ALL?

6668

What are literals?

1185

What are the access modes of START statement?

1331

Write the code to count the sum of n natural numbers.

1259

Can we redefine the field of x(200) to less than 200?

1435

What is the Purpose of POINTER Phrase in STRING command in COBOL?

1302

What is the difference between goback, stop run and exit program in cobol?

1649

i want to learn mainframe..any websites and material to learn from basic..? my mail id : rajeswaribe2010@gmail.com

2280

How do u write test cases?

2112

Difference between array and sub-script ?

1711

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