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

COBOL Interview Questions

Questions Answers Views Company eMail

What is file status 92?

3 28080

What is the difference between SEARCH and SEARCH ALL?

Cognizant,

6 14729

comp-3 field occupy?

5 9679

How is sign stored in a COMP field ?

Accenture,

3 23867

What is LENGTH in COBOL II?

CSC,

2 11211

What is the LINKAGE SECTION used for?

4 9062

What is Redefines clause?

8 21945

What are the different forms of EVALUATE statement?

IBM, Micro Labs,

2 15315

Describe the difference between subscripting and indexing ?

2 6409

How do you set a return code to the JCL from a COBOL program?

4 29255

What is the significance of 'above the line' and 'below the line'?

Nokia,

2 8893

What is level 66 used for ?

TCS,

3 15018

How do you sort in a COBOL program? Give sort file definition, sort statement syntax and meaning.

CGI, TCS,

7 28557

What do you do to resolve SOC-7 error?

Sun Life, Wipro,

2 13083

What compiler option would you use for dynamic linking?

2 9240

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Un-Answered Questions { COBOL }

What is the local-storage section?

1105

What are the different rules of SORT operation?

1086

What are declaratives and what are their uses in cobol?

1135

How to print 10 to 1 if the input have only 10 digit number?

1220

Mention the guidelines to write a structured cobol program?

1030

What type of SDLC u followed? Why?

1962

What are all the divisions of a COBOL program?

1149

What happens when we move a comp-3 field to an edited (say z (9). Zz-)?

1320

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

1362

what happens if parmparameter passes zero bytes to the program

2084

What is the default value(s) for an initialize? What keyword will allow for an override of the default?

1064

What is the difference between PIC 9.99 and 9v99 in COBOL?

1246

What is the difference between Call and a Link?

1123

if we display var1 then what will b displayed in below condition. 77 var1 pic s9(2) value -10. 77 var1 pic s9(2) value -11. " " " -12. " " " -13. -14 ... ... -19.

6453

Explain sorting techniques in cobol program? Provide the sort file definition, the sort statement, its syntax and meaning

1046

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