In a Survey Conducted by IBM and Industry Week Magazine

question 16

Multiple Choice

In a survey conducted by IBM and Industry Week magazine, _____ percent of respondents identified collaborating with customers and suppliers as having the most significant impact on product development time-to-market.

• A) 20
• B) 40
• C) 60
• D) 80

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Definitions:

Register Variable

A type of variable that is stored in a CPU register instead of RAM to provide faster access to its value.

Address Operator

The address operator, represented by &, is used in languages like C and C++ to retrieve the memory address of a variable.

Extern Declaration

A statement used in C and C++ to declare a variable or function in another file or translation unit.

Compilation Error

A compilation error occurs when the source code of a program violates the syntax rules or semantic constraints of the programming language.