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

COBOL Interview Questions

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What is the maximum length of a field you can define using COMP-3?

Complex System, Infosys,

4 37503

How do you define a variable of COMP-1? COMP-2?

3 18145

What is the difference between comp and comp-3 usage? Explain other COBOL usage?s.

IBM, Xansa,

3 37303

Explain the difference between an internal and an external sort, the pros and cons, internal sort syntax etc.

3 13503

What do you feel makes a good program?

2 6317

What are the different data types available in COBOL?

4 11400

Can JUSTIFIED be used for all the data types?

3 10837

What is the linkage section?

4 9935

What is Static and Dynamic linking ?

3 11347

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

1 7226

What is a scope terminator? Give examples.

2 9390

In an EVALUATE statement, can I give a complex condition on a when clause?

2 13636

What are different file OPEN modes available in COBOL?

Sun Life,

4 23894

The maximum number of dimensions that an array can have in COBOL-85 is ?

11 32317

What is the difference between performing a SECTION and a PARAGRAPH?

Accenture, Patni,

5 33869

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Un-Answered Questions { COBOL }

What is the difference between comp and comp-3 usage?

1201

What is difference between static and dynamic call in cobol?

1391

What rules are followed by the search verb.

1118

What is a SSRANGE and NOSSRANGE?

1470

How did the release of cobol/370 version 1.3 improve the performance of release 1.1?

1083

Which is not true about evaluate statement

2457

If you are current on the owner of a set, what is the difference between obtain next and obtain first?

1348

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

2141

Why do we code s9 (4) comp. Inspite of knowing comp-3 will occupy less space?

1153

example for sub strings ? and refernce modifications whit output pls

2317

input 1 input2 ouput1 output2 output 3 1 re 300 1 re 200 1 re 300 3 rc 500 1 re 200 2 rr 400 1 re 300 2 rr 400 1 rc 400 3 rc 500 1 rc 400 2 rr 700 2 rr 700 5 tt 900 5 tt 900 2 inputs r in flat file and output 1 is matched records,ouptput2 is unmatched of input1,output3 is unmatched of input2! how vl u get the output files using sequential order and to check with each and every records! let me know the procedure division ?

2299

What are various search techniques in cobol? Explain.

1071

Explain the configuration section of a cobol program with examples of syntax.

1200

please..could u give an example about USAGE IS POINTER ..and explain why and when we use it ?

2472

How are the next sentence and continue different from each other?

1297

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