PHP MCQ with answers solved

1. What does PHP stand for?

a) Personal Home Pages
b) Private Home Page
c) Personal Hypertext Processor
d) Hypertext Pre-processor            

Ans : d

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2. PHP server scripts are surrounded by delimiters, which?

a) <?php>...</?>
b)<?php…?>
c) <&>...</&>
d) <script>...</script>              

Ans : b

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3. How do you write "Hello World" in PHP?
a) "Hello World";
b) echo "Hello World";
c) Document.Write("Hello World");  
    
Ans : b

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4. All variables in PHP start with which symbol?

a) $
b) !
c) &      
       
Ans : a

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5. What is the correct way to end a PHP statement?

a) </php>  
b) New line
c) ;    
d) .        
 
Ans : c

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6. The PHP syntax is most similar to:

a) Perl and C
b) JavaScript
c) VBScript

Ans : a

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7. How do you get information from a form that is submitted using the "get" method?

a) Request.Form;
b) Request.QueryString;
c) $_GET[];                  

Ans : c

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8.When using the POST method, variables are displayed in the URL:

a) True
b) False                  

Ans : b

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9.In PHP you can use both single quotes ( ' ' ) and double quotes ( " " ) for strings:

a) True
b) False                  

Ans : a

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10.Include files must have the file extension ".inc"

a) False
b) True                    

Ans : b

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11.What is the correct way to include the file "time.inc" ?

a) <!--include file="time.inc"-->
b) <% include file="time.inc" %>
c) <?phpinclude_file("time.inc"); ?>
d) <?php require("time.inc"); ?>            

Ans : d

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12.What is the correct way to create a function in PHP?

a) createmyFunction()
b) new_functionmyFunction()
c) functionmyFunction()
d) None of these                

Ans : c

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13.What is the correct way to open the file "time.txt" as readable?

a) fopen("time.txt","r");b) open("time.txt");
c) fopen("time.txt","r+");  d) open("time.txt","read");        

Ans : a

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14.PHP allows you to send emails directly from a script

a) True
b) False                    

Ans : a

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15.What is the correct way to connect to a MySQL database?

a) dbopen("localhost");
b) mysql_open("localhost");
c) mysql_connect("localhost");
d) connect_mysql("localhost");              

Ans:c

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16.What is the correct way to add 1 to the $count variable?

a) $count++;
b) count++;
c) $count =+1
d) ++count                  

Ans: a

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17.What is a correct way to add a comment in PHP?

a) /*…*/
b) <!--…-->
c) *\..\*
d) <comment>…</comment>              

Ans : a

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18.PHP can be run on Microsoft Windows IIS(Internet Information Server):

a) False
b) True                    

Ans : b

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19.In PHP, the die() and exit() functions do the exact same thing.

a) False
b) True                    

Ans : b

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20.Which one of these variables has an illegal name?

a) $my-Var
b) $myVar
c) $my_Var
d) None of these                

Ans : a