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

COBOL Interview Questions

Questions Answers Views Company eMail

What is an explicit scope terminator?

3 20309

COMP?

2 6407

What should be the sorting order for SEARCH ALL?

5 10691

How is sign stored in Packed Decimal fields and Zoned Decimal fields?

ABC, HCL, TCS,

6 38211

How do you define a table/array in COBOL?

Hexaware,

5 31466

When is a scope terminator mandatory?

3 9229

How do you submit JCL via a Cobol program?

IBM,

5 20916

What is the difference between a DYNAMIC and STATIC call in COBOL?

2 13354

Differentiate COBOL and COBOL-II?

2575

What is the difference between COMP & COMP-3 ?

2 30953

What was removed from COBOL in the COBOL II implementation?

2140

What will happen if you code GO BACK instead of STOP RUN in a stand-alone COBOL program i.e. a program which is not calling any other program ?

3 15672

How many sections are there in data division?.

Amdocs, TCS,

10 28426

What is the difference between NEXT SENTENCE and CONTINUE?

Mphasis,

2 14253

Can you REWRITE a record in an ESDS file? Can you DELETE a record from it?

ABC, IBM, Mphasis, Wipro,

6 27005

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Un-Answered Questions { COBOL }

Difference between cobol and cobol-ii?

1278

What are the different rules for performing sort operation?

1224

What is comp-1 and comp-2?

1230

Explain what you understand by passing by value.

1154

how can i see junk values in dclgen or in hostvariable of comp ?

2998

what is difference between cobol and cobol/400

22927

how can we apply for HSBC exam(Mainframe) in India??? i went to their site and was told to submit my CV ,. etc..( totally confusing...)

2394

What are literals?

1134

Can a Search can be done on a table with or without Index?

1289

What is the difference between Structured COBOL Programming and Object Oriented COBOL programming?

1118

What is rmode(any) ?

1266

What are the access modes of START statement?

1273

What is the difference between binary search and sequential search?

1089

How do get the result of your program directly on your pc?

2342

What is difference between static and dynamic call in cobol?

1390

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