Javascript Multiple Choice Questions on “Array and Related Methods”.
1. What is the observation made in the following JavaScript code?
a) The omitted value takes “undefined”
b) This results in an error
c) This results in an exception
d) The omitted value takes an integer value
Answer: a
Clarification: Array is defined with a null value when no value is mentioned. If you omit a value from an array literal, the omitted element is given an undefined value.
2. What will be the output of the following JavaScript code?
var a1 = [,,,]; var a2 = new Array(3); 0 in a1 0 in a2
a) true false
b) false true
c) true true
d) false true
Answer: a
Clarification: Array a1 is defined with null values. Therefore we can access the indexes 0, 1 and 2. But array a2 is only defined not declared. Therefore we cannot access index 0.
3. The pop() method of the array does which of the following task?
a) decrements the total length by 1
b) increments the total length by 1
c) prints the first element but no effect on the length
d) updates the element
Answer: a
Clarification: pop() function pops out that is delete the last element from the array. Hence pop() method (it works with push()) reduces the length of an array by 1.
4. What is the observation made in the following JavaScript code?
a) Skips the defined elements
b) Skips the existent elements
c) Skips the null elements
d) Skips the defined & existent elements
Answer: c
Clarification: The if loop in the above code checks whether the value of a[i] exists or not. For undefined, non existent and null values the if loop returns true.
5. What will happen if reverse() and join() methods are used simultaneously?
a) Reverses and stores in the same array
b) Reverses and concatenates the elements of the array
c) Reverses
d) Stores the elements of an array in normal order
Answer: a
Clarification: The array.join() method is an inbuilt function in JavaScript which is used to join the elements of an array into a string. The reverse() followed by a join() will reverse the respective array and will store the reversed array in the memory.
6. What will be the possible output of the following JavaScript code?
var a = [1,2,3,4,5]; a.slice(0,3);
a) Returns [1,2,3]
b) Returns [4,5]
c) Returns [1,2,3,4]
d) Returns [1,2,3,4,5]
Answer: a
Clarification: .slice() function is a predefined function in JavaScript used to keep the elements from starting point and ending point mentioned in the function argument. The elements after the ending point and before the starting point are not shown.
7. What will be the shift() output of the following JavaScript code?
var a = []; a.unshift(1); a.unshift(22); a.shift(); a.unshift(3,[4,5]); a.shift(); a.shift(); a.shift();
a) 1
b) [4,5]
c) [3,4,5]
d) Exception is thrown
Answer: a
Clarification: The unshift() and shift() methods behave much like push() and pop(), except that they insert and remove elements from the beginning of an array rather than from the end. unshift() adds an element or elements to the beginning of the array, shifts the existing array elements up to higher indexes to make room, and returns the new length of the array. shift() removes and returns the first element of the array, shifting all subsequent elements down one place to occupy the newly vacant space at the start of the array.
8. The primary purpose of the array map() function is that it __________
a) maps the elements of another array into itself
b) passes each element of the array and returns the necessary mapped elements
c) passes each element of the array on which it is invoked to the function you specify, and returns an array containing the values returned by that function
d) pass the elements of the array into another array
