General PowerBuilder MCQs

1. The windows that are opened in the client area of an MDI frame are known as:

2. The five system tables created by PowerBuilder the first time it connects to the database are collectively known as:

3. A control that can be used for displaying other controls is:

4. A named set of parameters stored in your PowerBuilder initialization file that defines a connection to a particular database in the PowerBuilder development environment is known as:

5. Which is the ancestor main window for all SDI applications?

6. Which property of the error object contains the name of the object in which the error occurred?

7. The escape character in Powerscript is:

8. You want a variable that will be accessible anywhere in the application. What type of variable will you declare?

9. Which of the following shape controls is not available in the PowerBuilder control bar?

10. Which popup menu is displayed when the user releases the right mouse button over an u_dw based datawindow control?

11. Which menu is the master menu for all PFC applications?

12. In a window, you need two sets of radio buttons. On which control will you place the radio buttons ?

13. The string function mid is used to:

14. On which platform do INTERSOLV ODBC drivers, included with PowerBuilder, support ODBC connections?

15. Which of the following is not a standard data type?

16. Which Datawindow function is used to retrieve the rows into the Datawindow ?

17. The repository table pbcatfmt contains:

18. You want to get a value for a particular key from the system registry What function will you use?

19. Assume there are two windows, w1 and w2.w2 has a tab control with the name tab1. tab1 has two pages, tabp1 and tabp2. tabp1 has a command button cb1. What will be the correct syntax to refer to cb1 from the window w1?

20. Which application event is fired first?

21. Which control would you use to display the information in a hierarchical fashion?

22. Given the name of the object to be Pfc_w_master, the object as per the naming conventions is a:

23. The number of global functions defined in the PFC is:

24. Which object will be used to handle runtime errors?

25.

Given the following database access components for a windows platform, arrange them in the correct order starting from the application and ending with the database:

1 Powersoft ODBC interface (PBODB60.DLL)

2 PowerBuilder Applications

3 Database

4 Database ODBC Driver

5 ODBC Driver Manager (ODBC32.DLL)

26. The connection object for use with all distributed PFC applications is:

27. The & character is used:

28. Which object provides the ability to display a Web page in the default browser?

29. Which of the following is not a mathematical function?

30. Which of the following identifiers is invalid?

31. How many instances of a window can you create?

32. Which object is used to analyze the performance of a PowerBuilder application?

33. You are declaring an instance variable. What is the prefix you would use to name the variable?

34. The default transaction object is:

35. Which PowerBuilder repository table contains the edit style names and definitions?

36. You want to implement a timer in your application. Which function will you use?

37. The first step in creating an application with PFC is:

38. The prefix g would be used for which variable type?

39. The concatenation operator is:

40. An object with the prefix ds would refer to a:

41. The operator for exponentiation is:

42. The PFC object u_cb stands for:

43. Which DBPARM parameter is used to connect to an ODBC data source?

44. The ODBC API does not define which of the following?

45. On a Windows platform, the name of the initialization file is:

46. Which of the following is not a descendant of w_master?

47. In which of the following cases does PowerBuilder not connect to the database?

48. Which of the following is not a main type of PowerBuilder object in PFC?

49. Which is the ancestor for all PFC windows?

50. The createondemand property of the tab control:

51. The default DynamicStagingArea in PowerBuilder is:

52. On which platform can ODBC drivers, provided by vendors other than Powersoft, be supported?

53. Which of the following is not a date related function?

54. Which PowerBuilder repository table contains the validation rule names and definitions?

55.

What would the following script generally be used for?

        close (parent)

56. The IsValid function:

57. Labels are used in conjunction with:

58. What is the ancestor object for custom visual user objects such as u_calculator and u_calendar?