The word comes from the name of a Persian mathematician Abu Ja’far Mohammed ibn-i Musa al Khowarizmi is called?

(a)

Flowchart

(b)

Flow

(c)

Algorithm

(d)

Syntax

Two main measures for the efficiency of an algorithm are

(a)

Processor and memory

(b)

Complexity and capacity

(c)

Time and space

(d)

Data and space

From the following sorting algorithms which has the lowest worst case complexity?

(a)

Bubble sort

(b)

Quick sort

(c)

Merge sort

(d)

Selection sort

Time complexity of bubble sort in best case is

(a)

θ (n)

(b)

θ (nlogn)

(c)

θ (n2)

(d)

θ (n(logn) 2)

If a problem can be broken into subproblems which are reused several times, the problem possesses which property?

(a)

Overlapping subproblems

(b)

Optimal substructure

(c)

Memoization

(d)

Greedy

Which of the following is a finite set of instructions to accomplish a particular task?

(a)

Flowchart

(b)

Functions

(c)

Algorithm

(d)

Abstraction

Which of the following is not a characteristic of an algorithm?

(a)

Definiteness

(b)

Correctness

(c)

Data structure

(d)

Effectivenes

Which of the following is an example of data structures?

(a)

List

(b)

Tuple

(c)

Dictionary

(d)

All of these.

Which of the following is not a sorting technique?

(a)

Bubble

(b)

Binary

(c)

Insertion

(d)

Quick

Which characteristics of algorithm defined the operation involving division by zero?

(a)

Finiteness

(b)

Definiteness

(c)

Input

(d)

Correctness