Interview Q&A

• How do I convert a string to a number?

  n Turbo/Borland Pascal, you can use the standard Val() procedure. The first argument is a string, and the second argument is a numeric variable which will be set to the numeric value represented by the string. The result variable can be any...

• How do I read command line parameters?

  The standard function ParamCount: word will return the number of command line parameters, while function ParamStr(N: word): string will return the N-th parameter.

• What are the different Pascal standards?

  There are currently 3 different documents that can be classified as Pascal standards: Unextended Pascal, Extended Pascal, and the Object-Oriented Extensions to Pascal.

• What is the Pascal compiler used on HPCVL machines?

  The Pascal compiler installed on the Sun Fire system of HPCVL is the Gnu Pascal Compiler (GPC). This is a public-domain compiler that has a great deal of extensions and compatibility features built into it, and is designed to be very porta...

• Why Pascal?

  Pascal is a computer language that was designed for teaching purposes. It makes extensive use of function and subroutine calls and allows code do be written in a very "readable" manner. Pascal is one of the precursors of the arguably most s...

• What are pseudo-classes?

  What are pseudo-classes? CSS Interview Questions and Questions (Continued from previous question...) 42. What are pseudo-classes? Pseudo-classes are fictional element types that do not exist in HTML. In CSS1 there is only one el...

• What is inline style? How to link?

  nline style is the style attached to one specific element. The style is specified directly in the start tag as a value of the STYLE attribute and will apply exclusively to this specific element occurance.

• Explain about vertical control limitation?

  Vertical control limitations are always a nightmare for a designer. Horizontal positioning of text or element is always easy but vertically positioning an element always leads to convoluted and impossible tasks. CSS has unsupported rules fo...

• How do I have a fixed (non-scrolling) background image?

  With CSS, you can use the background-attachment property. The background attachment can be included in the shorthand background property, as in this example: body { background: white url(example.gif) fixed ; color: black ; }

• How to use CSS to separate content and design ?

  The idea here is that all sites contain two major parts, the content: all your articles, text and photos and the design: rounded corners, colors and effects. Usually those two are made in different parts of a webpage’s lifetime. The design...

• Is CSS case sensitive?

  Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is not case sensitve. However, font families, URLs to images, and other direct references with the style sheet may be. The trick is that if you write a document using an XML declaration and an XHTML doctype, th...

• What is class?

  Class is a group of 1) instances of the same element to which an unique style can be attached or 2) instances of different elements to which the same style can be attached.

• What is grouping

  Grouping is gathering (1) into a comma separated list two or more selectors that share the same style or (2) into a semicolon separated list two or more declarations that are attached to the same selector (2).

• What is ID selector?

  ID selector is an individually identified (named) selector to which a specific style is declared. Using the ID attribute the declared style can then be associated with one and only one HTML element per document as to differentiate it from a...

• What is contextual selector?

  Contextual selector is a selector that addresses specific occurrence of an element. It is a string of individual selectors separated by white space, a search pattern, where only the last element in the pattern is addressed providing it matc...

• What Are The Major Differences Between Css And css2?

  Cascading Style Sheets, level 2 offers many new properties and methods to control the look and feel of your documents in various different settings - not just Web pages. No browser fully supports CSS2.

• State some limitations of style sheets?

  Style sheets do have its own share of limitations some of them are as follows: - 1) Inconsistent browser support 2) Vertical control limitations 3) Margin collapsing, float containment, control of element shapes, etc 4) Lack of column d...

• Explain about the ease of maintenance with CSS.

  An effective style sheet has effective use of inheritance and cascading style sheets. When changes are applied to a single element of this global style sheet every element of the web page changes. This made the maintenance easy because here...

• Explain about CSS filter?

  CSS filter solves designers and coders difficulties. With the help of these filters one can write entirely different code or modify the existing design patterns so that browsers receive CSS specifications which they support, thereby not all...

• Explain about CSS1?

  W3C recommended adoption of CSS1in 1996. Some of the capabilities and features present in CSS1 are as follows. 1) Font properties 2) Background colors, text colors, etc 3) Spacing between text, words, etc 4) Tables, images alignment 5)...

• State the different type of author styles?

  A web page author, developer, designer, etc can describe styles in three different forms they are 1) External style sheets 2) Embedded style 3) Inline styles 4) Local and default style sheet.

• State some of the uses of CSS?

  CSS offers many possibilities to a designer and developer. Some of them are 1) Moving of the entire style sheet coding to a separate external folder. 2) Repetition and code reuse features make CSS rich. 3) Presentation and structure are...

• Explain about the hover element?

  A hover element is activated when the user moves a pointer over the area where HTML coding is defined. This style is being extensively used for online advertising. It is appended to #elementid:hover.

• Explain about the rules present in style sheets?

  A huge list of rules is defined for style sheets. Each rule consists of selectors and declaration block. A declaration block consists of declarations which can be defined and separated by using a semicolon within curly braces. Also each dec...

• Explain about some of the features of CSS?

  Some of the features used by CSS are to define a layout, colors, fonts, etc. It separates the content from the design part which makes the content much more visible thereby improving productivity of the entire process. It can make the same...

• How long does it take to get my website "indexed" on the search engines?

  Each search engine is different. Generally, it takes anywhere from 2-12 weeks for search engines to index (spider) your site.

• What is Search Engine Optimization (SEO)?

  Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the process of designing a website specifically for search engines with the goal of obtaining the highest possible rankings according to selected keywords.

• How do I use a Robots file or do you have an example of one?

  A basic, spider can go anywhere file is: User-agent: * Disallow: You can disallow folders or files by putting this into the file: User-agent: * Disallow: /foldername/

• Some controls

  # BRA Branch; Motorola 680x0, Motorola 68300; short (16 bit) unconditional branch relative to the current program counter # JMP Jump; Motorola 680x0, Motorola 68300; unconditional jump (any valid effective addressing mode other than data r...

• what is condition codes?

  Condition codes are the list of possible conditions that can be tested during conditional instructions. Typical conditional instructions include: conditional branches, conditional jumps, and conditional subroutine calls. Some processors hav...

• What is data movement?

  Data movement instructions move data from one location to another. The source and destination locations are determined by the addressing modes, and can be registers or memory. Some processors have different instructions for loading register...

• kinds of processors

  Processors can broadly be divided into the categories of: CISC, RISC, hybrid, and special purpose.

• What are Attributes?

  Attributes are declarative tags in code that insert additional metadata into an assembly

• What are the Types of Assemblies?

  Assemblies are of two types: 1. Private Assemblies 2. Shared Assemblies

• What is an Intermediate language?

  Assemblies are made up of IL code modules and the metadata that describes them. Although programs may be compiled via an IDE or the command line, in fact, they are simply translated into IL, not machine code. The actual machine code is not...

• How to achieve Black/White with Color Detail

  use the lasso tool to carefully select the elements that you want to retain as color - you may even want to feather the selection by a couple of pixels if it looks better. Once you have these selected, invert the selection so that everythi...

• How do you create an artistic border?

  1. Open any image> 2. Make a selection using the “rectangular Marquee Tool” (M) 3. In your layer pallet> add a layer mask 4. Then go to Filter>Brush Strokes>Sprayed Strokes and play with the stroke length etc. You can apply other styl...

• How do you create an artistic border?

  1. Open any image> 2. Make a selection using the “rectangular Marquee Tool” (M) 3. In your layer pallet> add a layer mask 4. Then go to Filter>Brush Strokes>Sprayed Strokes and play with the stroke length etc. You can apply other styl...

• How do you select an exact color to match?

  There are two ways of doing this: The easiest way is to use the eyedropper tool to sample the color as your foreground color - make sure the foreground color square is selected when you use the eyedroper tool - then use a brush, pencil o...

• What is the quickest way to achieve this? Multiple layers? Layer masks?

  Open the color image you wish to modify. Select all and COPY the full image Now use Mode and reset the color to Grayscale, say "Yes" to removing all color. The image goes grayscale. Tweak or adjust the black and white until it suits yo...

• How do you print the grid?

  Put the non printing grid on how you want it, then take a screen capture (alt + PrintScreen on PC) Open a new file, the size should be set as the size of the grab, and paste. Crop away everything (the background of the photoshop windo...

• How to Unlock Background

  Clic on IMAGE go to MODE and select GRAY SCALE (if the PDF or JPG is black / white), and go back to the LAYER and double clic, that will unlocked, if do not, go back to IMAGE and select RGB color and double clic, that would do it.

• How do users fill out an InfoPath form if they do not have InfoPath?

  n order to fill out forms created in InfoPath and to take advantage of InfoPath’s rich-client functionality, data validation and offline capabilities, users will need a copy of InfoPath installed on their workstation.

• Do I need to touch every desktop to deploy InfoPath? Can you host an InfoPath form in the browser?

  A. In order to fill out or design an InfoPath form, InfoPath needs to be installed on the desktop. However, once you have deployed InfoPath, you can easily roll out the form templates that users need to use InfoPath. InfoPath provides trans...

• How to Create a Gradient Beveled Picture Frame

  The first step is to draw the frame. Go to the top of your window and click Insert > Picture > Auto Shapes.The next step is to apply the gradient effect. Click on the frame to select it. Then open the Fill Effects by clicking on the arrow b...

• How to Create a Drop Down Menu in Frontpage

  Having a drop down menu in your forms is a very convenient way of organizing a big list of options. The steps are easy. First make sure that your already have a form. 1. Click the area in the form where you want to add a drop box. 2. Ty...

• Add a Form to a Webpage

  Forms are one of the most important parts of your website. It bridges your visitor and you, there are many options for forms in frontpage, so we’ll start with the basics. 1. Click the location where you want the form to appear. 2....

• How to Change the Color of Text

  * First you select the text you want changed * Next click the color picker drop down arrow from the letter coloring icon on your taskbar, (the one with a giant A on it)

• How to Spell Check Your Web Pages

  * click anywhere on the page you want to spell check * In top menu bar look for the spelling icon, usually its a small box with a check mark and the letters ‘abc’ on it.

• Create A Bullet Point or Numbered List

  # first we select the text we want to bullet point in the menu bar click format>bullets and numbering # in the dialog box pick plain bullets select the one you like and click OK.