School Of Technology

Programming Principles and Practice with C and C++

Total Marks: 50
Instructions

1.​ All 28 questions are compulsory - 25 MCQ and 3 Programming

2.​ The Multiple Choice Question (MCQ) section carries a total of 25 marks, with
each question allotted 1 mark.
3.​ The Programming section carries a total of 25 marks, distributed as 5 marks, 8
marks, and 12 marks respectively.
4.​ No negative marking will be applied in any section.

SECTION-A (Q1 – Q10) ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ (1 mark each)

Question 1​
What is the output of the following code snippet?

#include <stdio.h>
int main(void) {
int s = 0, n = 8;
for (int i = 1; i <= n; ++i)
for (int j = 1; j <= n; ++j)
s += i + j;
printf("%d\n", s);
return 0;
}
A. 512​
B. 576​
C. 640​
D. 592

Question 2​
What is the output of the following code snippet?

#include <stdio.h>
int main() {
char c = 'd';
int x = 70;
printf("%d", c + x);
}

A. 170​
B. 168​
C. 169​
D. 171

Question 3​
What is the output of the following code snippet?

#include <stdio.h>
int main(void) {
signed char c = 259;
printf("%d\n", (int)c);
return 0;
}
A. 3​
B. 1​
C. 259​
D. Implementation-defined / varies

Question 4​
What is the output of the following code snippet?

#include <stdio.h>
int main(void) {
char a = 20, b = 30;
char d = a * b;
short x = a * b - d / 100 - 500;
printf("%d\n", x);
return 0;
}

A. -450​
B. -470​
C. 100​
D. 600

Question 5​
What is the output of the following code snippet?

#include <stdio.h>
int main(void) {
signed char a = 80;
signed char b = 100;
signed int c = a + b;
 printf("%d\n", (int)c);
return 0;
}

A. 180​
B. -76​
C. 9216​
D. 44

Question 6​
What is the output of the following code snippet?

#include <stdio.h>
int main(void) {
unsigned short a = 50;
signed short b = -10;
printf("%d\n", a > b + 30);
return 0;
}

A. 1​
B. 0​
C. -1​
D. Compile error

Question 7​
What is the output of the following code snippet?

#include <stdio.h>
int main(void) {
 int a = 5, b = 7, c = 2, d = 6, z = 0;
z = a+++ ++b*c--- --d;
printf("%d\n", z);
return 0;
}

A. 41​
B. 39​
C. 37​
D. 43

Question 8​
What is the output of the following code snippet?

#include <stdio.h>
int main(void) {
int a, b, c, d;
a = b = c = d = 3;
a *= b + 2;
c += d *= 2;
printf("%d\n", a + c);
return 0;
}

A. 23​
B. 21​
C. 19​
D. 25
Question 9​
What is the output of the following code snippet?

#include <stdio.h>
int main(void) {
int a = 7;
a = a++;
a = a++ * a--;
int c = a;
int d = a++ * a++;
int x = (c + d) / 100;
printf("%d\n", x);
return 0;
}

A. 0​
B. 1​
C. 2​
D. 3

Question 10​
What is the output of the following code snippet?

#include <stdio.h>
int main(void) {
int a, b, c, p = 15;
p += (a = 6, b = a + 3, c = a + b);
printf("%d\n", p);
return 0;
}
A. 30​
B. 31​
C. 29​
D. 32

SECTION-B (Q11 – Q20) ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ (1 mark each)

Question 11​
What is the output of the following code snippet?

#include <stdio.h>
int main(void) {
int i = -2;
unsigned int j = 1;
int x = 0;
if (i < j) x = 10;
else x = 20;
printf("%d\n", x);
return 0;
}

A. 10​
B. 20​
C. Compile error​
D. Undefined behavior

Question 12​
What is the output of the following code snippet?

#include <stdio.h>
int main(void) {
 int a = 3, y = 10;
switch (a) {
y = 30;
case 2:
y++;
break;
case 3:
y--;
break;
default:
y += 5;
}
printf("%d\n", y + 1);
return 0;
}

A. 10​
B. 31​
C. 29​
D. 32

Question 13​
What is the output of the following code snippet?

#include <stdio.h>
int main(void) {
int v = 3, a = 1, b = 3;
switch (v) {
case a:
a++;
break;
 case b:
b++;
break;
}
printf("%d\n", a + b);
return 0;
}

A. 4​
B. 5​
C. 3​
D. 2

Question 14​
What is the output of the following code snippet?

#include <stdio.h>
int main(void) {
int g = 9, h = 0;
if ((g / 2) == 4) h = h + 1;
if ((g % 4) == 1) h = h + 2;
if ((g / 2) != 4) h = h + 5;
printf("%d\n", h);
return 0;
}

A. 1​
B. 3​
C. 8​
D. 7
Question 15​
What is the output of the following code snippet?

#include <stdio.h>
int main(void) {
int i, j, k = 0, c = 0;
j = 2 * 4 / 5 + 3.0 / 6 + 9 / 4;
k -= --j;
for (i = 0; i < 4; i++) {
switch (i + k) {
case 0: case 1: c += 1;
case 2: ++c;
default: c++;
}
}
printf("%d\n", c);
return 0;
}

A. 10​
B. 13​
C. 11​
D. 9

Question 16​
What is the output of the following code snippet?

#include <stdio.h>
int main(void) {
int i, j, count = 0;
 i = 0;
for (j = -2; j <= 2; j++) {
if ((j >= 0) && (i++)) count += j;
}
count += i;
printf("%d\n", count + i);
return 0;
}

A. 7​
B. 5​
C. 6​
D. 4

Question 17

What is the output of the following code snippet?

#include <stdio.h>
int main(void) {
int a = 3, b = -2, c = 4, d = -1, x = 0;
if (a = b - c - d) x = (a++, b--, c++);
else x = (c--, ++a, ++b);
printf("%d\n", x);
return 0;
}

A. 0​
B. 1​
C. 2​
D. Compile-time error
Question 18​
What is the output of the following code snippet?

#include <stdio.h>
int main(void) {
unsigned char i = 254;
while (i++ != 0);
printf("%d\n", i);
return 0;
}

A. 0​
B. 1​
C. 255​
D. 2

Question 19​
What is the output of the following code snippet?

#include <stdio.h>
int main(void) {
int i = 1, j = 0, s = 0, n = 8;
for (i = 1; i <= n; i++)
for (j = i; j <= i; j++) s = s + j;
printf("%d\n", s);
return 0;
}

A. 36​
B. 32​
C. 28​
D. 45

Question 20​
What is the output of the following code snippet?

#include <stdio.h>
int main(void) {
int i = 0, k = 0, j = 3;
i = j < k ? k : j--;
if (j < i) j = j + k - 1;
if (j == i) j = j - i;
else j = j + --k;
printf("%d\n", j + k - i + 7);
return 0;
}

A. 4​
B. 5​
C. 3​
D. 6

SECTION-C (Q21 – Q25) ​​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ (1 mark each)

Question 21​
What is the output of the following code snippet?

#include <stdio.h>
int main(void) {
unsigned long long c = 0, n = 1ULL << 20; // 2^20
while (n) {
 c++; n >>= 1;
}
printf("%llu\n", c);
return 0;
}

A. 20​
B. 21​
C. 22​
D. 19

Question 22​
What is the output of the following code snippet?

#include <stdio.h>
int main(void) {
int i, j, k = 0;
j = 3 * 4 / 5 + 2.0 / 4 + 7 / 3;
k -= --j;
int c = 0;
for (i = 0; i < 4; i++) {
switch (i + k) {
case 0:
case 1: ++c;
case 2: ++c;
default: ++c;
}
}
printf("%d\n", c);
return 0;
}
A. 6​
B. 8​
C. 10​
D. 12

Question 23​
What is the output of the following code snippet?

#include <stdio.h>
int main(void) {
int a = 15, b = 27, x = 0;
a = b++ + a++;
b = ++b + ++a;
int sum = a + b - 19;
for (int i = sum; i >= 1; i /= 2) x += 1;
printf("%d\n", x);
return 0;
}

A. 3​
B. 4​
C. 5​
D. 6

Question 24​
What is the output of the following code snippet?

#include <stdio.h>
int main(void) {
int a = 0, i, j, k, n = 7;
 for (i = 1; i <= n; i++)
for (j = 1; j <= i; j++)
for (k = 1; k <= j; k++)
a = a + 1;
printf("%d\n", a);
return 0;
}

A. 140​
B. 120​
C. 84​
D. 56

Question 25​
What is the output of the following code snippet?

#include <stdio.h>
int main(void) {
int a = 0, i, j, k, n = 8;
for (i = 1; i <= n; i++)
for (j = 1; j <= i; j++)
for (k = 1; k <= j; k++)
a = a + 1;
printf("%d\n", a);
return 0;
}

A. 120​
B. 165​
C. 220​
D. 84
Section-D (Q26-Q28) Programming Questions​ ​ ​ ​ ​

Question 26 (5 marks)

Write a C program to determine if a year is a leap year using an if-else-if

ladder.

Input Example

2024

Expected Output

Leap Year

Question 27 (8 marks)

Problem Name: Product Minus Sum of Digits (variant)

Problem Statement:​
Given a positive integer n, compute and return the value (product of digits of
n) − (sum of digits of n).

Constraints: 1 <= n <= 10^6

Input / Output format:​

First line contains TC. Each of the following TC lines contains a single integer n.
For each test case print the result on a new line.

Example Input 4

123
405
999
560

Example Output

-2
0
524
-11

Question 28 Attempt any one of the following : either option A or option B.

Option A (12 marks)

Factorial Trailing Zeroes

Given n, print count of trailing zeros in n!.

Example​
Input: 4

4
10
50
100000

Output:

0
2
12
24999
Option B: ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ (12 marks)

Number of Common Factors

Given integers a and b, count numbers dividing both.

Example​
Input: 4

10 20
16 24
7 49
13 17

Output:

4
4
2
1