C Programming Questions and Answers – Variable Names – 1

This set of C Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on “Variable Names – 1”.

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1. C99 standard guarantees uniqueness of __________ characters for internal names.
a) 31
b) 63
c) 12
d) 14
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2. C99 standard guarantees uniqueness of ___________ characters for external names.
a) 31
b) 6
c) 12
d) 14
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3. Which of the following is not a valid variable name declaration?
a) int __a3;
b) int __3a;
c) int __A3;
d) None of the mentioned
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4. Which of the following is not a valid variable name declaration?
a) int _a3;
b) int a_3;
c) int 3_a;
d) int _3a;
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5. Why do variable names beginning with the underscore is not encouraged?
a) It is not standardized
b) To avoid conflicts since assemblers and loaders use such names
c) To avoid conflicts since library routines use such names
d) To avoid conflicts with environment variables of an operating system
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6. All keywords in C are in ____________
a) LowerCase letters
b) UpperCase letters
c) CamelCase letters
d) None of the mentioned
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7. Variable name resolution (number of significant characters for the uniqueness of variable) depends on ___________
a) Compiler and linker implementations
b) Assemblers and loaders implementations
c) C language
d) None of the mentioned
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8. Which of the following is not a valid C variable name?
a) int number;
b) float rate;
c) int variable_count;
d) int $main;
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9. Which of the following is true for variable names in C?
a) They can contain alphanumeric characters as well as special characters
b) It is not an error to declare a variable to be one of the keywords(like goto, static)
c) Variable names cannot start with a digit
d) Variable can be of any length
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