CLA – C Certified Associate Programmer Practice Exam

CLA – C Certified Associate Programmer 

About CLA – C Certified Associate Programmer  

The CLA – C Programming Language Certified Associate is a professional certificate accepted globally. The certification is provided by the C++ Institute, a global non-profit project run by the Open Education and Development Group (OpenEDG).

It is an entry-level certification for C programmers. The certification assesses the coding skills of C/C++ programmers by measuring their coding skills related to basic tasks in the C programming language, usage of library functions and the preprocessor.

Who should take the exam?

The CLA – C Programming Language Certified Associate certification should be taken by C/C++ programmers, entry-level software developers, analysts, students, and enthusiasts to certify their coding skills in C programming language.

Course Structure

The CLA – C Certified Associate Programmer Exam covers the following topics - 

Module 1 - Understanding Absolute basics

• Learn about languages: natural and artificial,
• Learn about machine languages,
• Learn about high-level programming languages,
• Learn about obtaining the machine code: compilation process,
• Learn about writing simple programs,
• Learn about variables,
• Learn about integer values in real life and in C,
• Learn about integer literals.

Module 2 - Understanding Data types

• Learn about floating point values in real life and in C,
• Learn about float literals,
• Learn about arithmetic operators,
• Learn about priority and binding,
• Learn about post- and pre-incrementation and decrementation,
• Learn about operators of type op=,
• Learn about char type and ASCII code,
• Learn about char literals,
• Learn about equivalence of int and char data,
• Learn about comparison operators,
• Learn about conditional execution and if keyword,
• Learn about printf() and scanf() functions.

Module 3 - Understanding Flow control

• Learn about conditional execution: the “else” branch
• Learn about integer and float types
• Learn about conversions
• Learn about typecast and its operators
• Learn about loops – while, do and for
• Learn about controlling the loop execution – break and continue
• Learn about logical and bitwise operators

Module 4 - Understanding Arrays

• Learn about switch: different faces of ‘if’
• Learn about arrays (vectors)
• Learn about sorting in real life and in a computer memory
• Learn about initiators
• Learn about pointers
• Learn about an address, a reference, a dereference and the sizeof operator
• Learn about simple pointer and pointer to nothing (NULL)
• Learn about & operator
• Learn about pointers arithmetic
• Learn about pointers vs. arrays: different forms of the same phenomenon
• Learn about using strings
• Learn about basic functions dedicated to string manipulation

Module 5 - Understanding Memory management and structures

• Learn about array indexing
• Learn about the usage of pointers: perils and disadvantages
• Learn about void type
• Learn about arrays of arrays and multidimensional arrays
• Learn about memory allocation and deallocation: malloc() and free() functions
• Learn about arrays of pointers vs. multidimensional arrays
• Learn about structures
• Learn about declaring, using and initializing structures
• Learn about pointers to structures and arrays of structures
• Learn about basics of recursive data collections

Module 6 - Understanding about Functions

• Learn about functions
• Learn about how to declare, define and invoke a function
• Learn about variables’ scope, local variables and function parameters
• Learn about pointers, arrays and structures as function parameters
• Learn about function result and return statement
• Learn about void as a parameter, pointer and result
• Learn about parameterizing the main function
• Learn about external function and the extern declarator
• Learn about header files and their role

Module 7 - Understanding Files and streams

• Learn about files vs. streams
• Learn about header files needed for stream operations
• Learn about FILE structure
• Learn about opening and closing a stream, open modes, errno variable
• Learn about reading and writing to/from a stream
• Learn about predefined streams: stdin, stdout and stderr
• Learn about stream manipulation: fgetc(), fputc(), fgets() and fputs() functions
• Learn about raw input/output: fread() and fwrite() functions

Module 8 - Understanding Preprocessor and complex declarations

• Learn about preprocessor
• Learn about #include: how to make use of a header file
• Learn about #define: simple and parameterized macros
• Learn about #undef directive
• Learn about predefined preprocessor symbols
• Learn about macrooperators: # and ##
• Learn about conditional compilation: #if and #ifdef directives
• Learn about avoiding multiple compilations of the same header files
• Learn about scopes of declarations, storage classes
• Learn about user –defined types
• Learn about pointers to functions
• Learn about analyzing and creating complex declarations

Exam Pattern 

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• Number of Questions: 40-60
• Length of Time: 120 Minutes
• Registration Fee:$165.00
• Passing Score: 700 (on a scale of 1-1000)
• Exam Language English, Japanese

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