CLA-11-03 CLA - C Certified Associate Programmer Questions and Answers

The declaration float **p; means that p is a pointer to a pointer to a float. It is used to declare a pointer that can point to another pointer, and that pointer, in turn, can point to a float.

The main function declares an integer i and initializes it to 1. Then, it enters a for loop with no initialization statement, a condition i > 128, and an iteration expression i *= 2. The loop will continue to execute as long as i is greater than 128, but since i starts at 1, the loop's condition is false right from the start, meaning the loop body never executes.

However, this looks like an oversight, because usually, with this kind of loop, the intention is to run the loop until the condition becomes false. If the condition were i < 128, i would double each iteration until it reached or exceeded 128.

Given the current condition i > 128, the loop does nothing, and printf will output the ini-tial value of i, which is 1.

The program outputs 12.300000 because the printf function prints the value of f with a precision of 6 decimal places, which is the default precision for floating-point literals in C. The %f format specifier indicates that the argument is a floating-point value, and the space before it indicates that there should be a decimal point. The argument f is a float literal that represents 1e1 + 2e0 + 3e-1, which is equivalent to 1000000000 + 20000000 + 0.003 in decimal notation. Therefore, the output of the pro-gram is:

1e1 + 2e0 + 3e-1 = 1000000000 + 20000000 + 0.003 = 1230000000.003 = 123300000

The other options are incorrect because they either do not match the output of the program or do not use the correct format specifier for floating-point literals.

In the fun function:

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int fun(int i) { return i++; }

The post-increment operator i++ returns the current value of i and then increments it. So, fun(i) will return the current value of i (which is 1) and then increment i to 2.

In the main function:

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int i = 1; i = fun(i); printf("%d", i);

Here, i is assigned the result of fun(i), which is 1. So, the program prints the value of i, which is 1.

Therefore, the correct answer is D. The program outputs 1.

The program outputs 3 because the expression p[2] - p[-1] evaluates to 3 using the pointer arithmetic rules in C. The pointer t points to the first element of the string literal "abcdefgh", which is stored in a read-only memory location. The pointer p is initialized to t + 2, which means it points to the third element of the string, which is 'c'. Then, p is incremented twice, so it points to the fifth ele-ment of the string, which is 'e'. The subscript operator [] is equivalent to adding an offset to the pointer and dereferencing it, so p[2] is the same as *(p + 2), which is 'g', and p[-1] is the same as *(p - 1), which is 'd'. The printf function then prints the difference between the ASCII values of 'g' and 'd', which is 103 - 100 = 3, as a decimal integer using the %d format specifier.

References = CLA – C Certified Associate Programmer Certification, C Essentials 2 - (Intermediate), C Pointers, C Strings

This is because when you initialize u with some values, only one member of u will be as-signed a value at a time, and the rest will remain uninitialized. Therefore, when you print sizeof(u), it will show the size of the largest member, which is f in this case. Since f is 4 bytes long, sizeof(u) will be 4 bytes as well.

If you want to learn more about unions in C programming, you can check out these re-sources:

•C Unions - GeeksforGeeks

•C Unions (With Examples) - Programiz

•C - Unions - Online Tutorials Library

The program outputs 14 because the printf function prints the value of i as a hexadecimal integer using the %x format specifier. The hexadecimal system uses 16 symbols to represent numbers, from 0 to 9 and from A to F. Each symbol corresponds to a decimal value, for example, A is 10, B is 11, C is 12, and so on. To convert a decimal number to a hexadecimal number, we need to divide the number by 16 repeatedly and write down the remainder in reverse order. For example, to convert 20 to hexa-decimal, we do:

20 / 16 = 1, remainder 4 1 / 16 = 0, remainder 1

The hexadecimal number is 14, as we write the remainders from right to left.

References = CLA – C Certified Associate Programmer Certification, C Essentials 2 - (Intermediate), C printf and scanf functions, Hexadecimal number system

The for loop in the program is initialized with i (which is 0), has the condition 1 (which is always true), and increments i in each iteration. Since the loop con-dition is always true, the loop will continue indefinitely, and i will keep incre-menting. The program will not reach the printf statement, and it will be stuck in an infinite loop.

•The program defines a global variable i and assigns it the value 0.

•The program defines a main function that takes two parameters: argc and argv.

•The program uses a for loop to increment the value of i as long as the condi-tion 1 is true, which is always the case.

•The program never exits the for loop, so it never reaches the printf function or the return statement.

•The program keeps running indefinitely, consuming CPU resources and memory. This is an example of a logical error in the program.

he expression a++ && b++ involves the logical AND (&&) operator. In C, the logical AND op-erator short-circuits, meaning that if the left operand (a++ in this case) is false, the right operand (b++) is not evaluated.

Initially, a is 0, and b is 1. The result of a++ is 0 (false), so b++ is not evaluated. The value of b remains 1. The printf statement then prints the value of b, which is 1.

Therefore, the correct answer is "The program outputs 1."

References = CLA – C Associate Programmer documents