Collected, Edited & Typed by: B.

Induja Reddy
nd
The CDS 2 unit:
DESIGING STRUCTURED
PROGRAMES
1) What do you mean by functions? Give the
structure of the functions and explain about the
arguments and their return values.
(Aug/Sep-07, Set 1,Set 2
April/May-07, Set 3
Nov/Dec-04, Set 4)
2) What is meant by function prototype? Give an
example of function prototype?
(Aug/Sep-07, Set 3
April/May-07, Set 3
Aug/Sep-06, Set 2)
3) Distinguish between function prototype and
function definition.
(Aug/Sep-07, Set 3
May/June-06, Set 2, Set3)
4) Explain in detail about pass by value and pas by
reference. Explain with a simple program.
(April/May-07, Set 4
April/May-03, Set 1
Nov/Dec-04, Set 4)
‘OR’
Illustrate the difference between call-by-value and
call-by-reference with suitable examples.
(Aug/Sep-06, Set 3)
 ‘OR’
Distinguish between call-by-value and call-by-
reference.
(May/June-06, Set 1)
‘OR’
Explain the parameter passing mechanism in C
(June-2000)
5) What is the scope of variables of type: Auto,
Register and static?
(Aug/Sep-07, Set-1
April/May-07, Set-4)
Nov/Dec-2000, supp)
6) Why is it possible to use the same variable names
for actual and formal arguments?
(Aug/Sep-07, Set 3
May/June-06, Set 2, Set 3)
7) Distinguish between user defined and built in
functions.
(Aug/Sep-07, Set-3
Aug/Sep-06, Set-2)
8) What is recursion? What is its advantage?
(Aug/Sep, Set 3
May/June-06, Set 2, Set 3)
9) What is the significance of conditional
compilation?
(April/May-07, Set 1
June-02, Set 3)
‘OR’
What is meant by conditional compilation? What are its
advantages?
(May/June-06, Set-4)
 10)Write a recursive function power (Base, Exponent)
that when invoked returns base exponent.
(April/May-07, Set 2, Set 3
Aug/Sep-06, Set 1
May/June-06, Set 3)
11) Write a C program that uses a function to sort an
array of integers.
(Aug/Sep-07, Set 1, Set2, Set3
Nov/Dec-04, Set-4
April/May-03, Set 2)
12) How does the un- Defining of a pre- Defined macro
done?
(April/May-07, Set 1)
13) Distinguish between function and preprocessor
directive.
(April/May-07, Set 1)
14) What is a preprocessor directive?
(April/May-07, Set 1)
15) Explain the accessing of memory locations in call-
by-value and call-by-reference mechanism with a
suitable illustration.
(Aug/Sep-06, Set 3)
16) What are storage class in C ? Explain with
examples. Mention few string handling functions.
(Dec-01, Supp
June-02, Set 1
Nov/Dec-03, Set 4
Nov/Dec-04, Set 3)
17) Explain the control statements in C language
(June-02, Set 2)
18) Dynamic memory location? Explain how this can be
implemented in C.
(June-01)

19) Distinguish between the following

(1) Actual and formal arguments
(2) Global and local variables
(3) Automatic and static variables
(April/May-07, Set 4
May/Dec-06, Set 1
April/May-03, Set 1
Nov/Dec-04, Set 4, Set 2)
20) Distinguish between getchar and scanf functions
for reading strings.
(April-03, Set 3
May/June-04, Set 4)
21) What do you mean by functions. Give the structure
of the functions and explain about the arguments and
their return values?
(April/May-03, Set 2)