HAS 106A Army Coding Practice Exam

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• Which category describes wounded who are in need of surgery but whose general condition permits delay in treatment without unduly endangering life, limb, or eyesight, with sustaining treatment required?
• Which tool is commonly used to detect memory leaks during development?
• Who establishes procedures with local authorities when personnel die outside the installation limits?
• Why is proper error handling important in system programming, and what pattern is commonly recommended to manage errors?
• Which scenario demonstrates a buffer overflow and a common mitigation strategy?
• What is the role of comments and documentation in maintaining secure and reliable code?
• What is a memory leak and how can you detect and fix leaks?
• Which term refers to the packet that collects all MASCAL patients before they are moved to Hospital/CSH?
• Explain the difference between pass-by-value and pass-by-reference, with a simple C example.
• In a Line of Duty investigation, which form is electronically completed and forwarded to the appointing authority?
• Which term describes moving patients into, within, and out of different theaters of the geographic combatant?
• Which system transfers patients from MCAS/BSMC or a forward Surgical Team (FST) or Forward Resuscitation and Surgical Team (FRST) to a Role 3 hospital?
• Explain memory pool and a scenario where it might improve performance.
• Which tool is used to determine bed availability in the hospital?
• Which role is responsible for issuing MASCAL packets and coordinating evacuation?
• What is the difference between shallow copy and deep copy, and when is each appropriate?
• What steps would you take to perform a code review effectively on a peer's coding task?
• In the Line of Duty process, to whom does the commander forward the Line of Duty for recommendation for legal sufficiency?
• What is a sanitizer tool and how can it help during development?
• The family tasks and responsibilities in the decedent process involve which specific actions?
• When transferring a patient, the attending physician notifies which division?
• Which of the following is NOT a cause of peacetime MASCAL?
• Which category describes injuries that are relatively minor and allow the patient to care for themselves or require minimal medical care?
• Which Valgrind option is used to report memory leaks?
• Which board is used to track MASCAL patients from arrival to disposition?
• Which form is used to document the death tag count per patient?
• What letter is used as a placeholder to fill empty characters when additional digits are needed?
• What does Big-O notation describe, and how would you analyze a nested loop with two loops each running n times?
• Which form documents the disposition of the body?
• What is the primary purpose of a Line of Duty investigation?
• When replacing magic numbers, which alternatives are preferred?
• Which form number corresponds to the Death Tags?
• How would you design a test to ensure a function handles empty inputs correctly?
• Who may approve a Line of Duty investigation?
• Differentiate between a stack overflow and a heap overflow and give causes for each.
• Which of the following is a MASCAL triage category?
• Which function is a safer alternative to strcpy that enforces a bound on the destination buffer?
• PAD stands for which division in the medical evacuation framework?
• PAD duties include:
• In loop boundary testing, what is the main reason to exercise boundary indices?
• Which two roles coordinate, maintain, and report Bed Status for overall patient regulating determination?
• What is the lifetime behavior of memory allocated with malloc compared to memory allocated on the stack?
• Authorization for Autopsy uses which form?
• Explain endianness and one practical implication when writing portable code.
• Hospital Report of Death is documented on which form?
• When is volatile appropriate, and what does it guarantee?
• Decedent Affairs Responsibilities: The PAD Clerk is responsible for:
• Which statement best describes intra-theater movement?
• The PAD Clerk must ensure which party handles Release of Remains with the funeral home, signs Authorization of Autopsy, and receives patient belongings?
• When testing a function that merges two sorted arrays, which set of test cases is appropriate?
• What is the proper expression of the Arrange-Act-Assert pattern in unit testing?
• Why was the Line of Duty and Misconduct Determination Program essential?
• Which form number corresponds to Death Tags documentation?
• Which triage category designates patients with minor injuries who can wait for care?
• Which statement correctly describes the 2nd through 7th characters in coding?
• What is a common strategy to ensure function preconditions are met at runtime?
• What is the difference between a binary tree and a binary search tree?
• How do you declare and use a function pointer for a comparison function in C?
• What coordinates the movement of patients within and from theater and ensures the continuity of patient records from Role 2 through Role 4 treatment facilities?
• Which option is NOT listed as a component of the evacuation system?
• In the expired patient checklist contact list, which option lists all relevant roles?
• Which statement best captures the essence of MASCAL operations as described in the material?
• Which of the following is a function of MRO?
• Which of the following is a factor that influences Patient Movement?
• What is the center of operations where information is provided to the Hospital Commander?
• Which system tracks near real-time patient care data globally and supports medical regulating, patient movement, and patient in transit visibility with a single DoD automated information system?
• In merging sorted arrays, how should duplicates be handled?
• Which approach is safest for parsing an integer from a string in C to avoid overflow?
• How can you detect and fix off-by-one errors in loops?
• Why is strcpy dangerous and what safer alternatives should you use?
• What is the purpose of a base case in a recursive function?
• Intra-theater medical regulating's scope?
• What are the purposes of Medical Regulating?
• Which design pattern helps manage dynamic memory lifecycle in C by pairing create, append, and destroy operations?
• The PAD Clerk must ensure that the physician completes and signs all required documents.
• Which statement best defines the role of the MRO in bed status and patient regulation?
• What is the trade-off of using a memory pool in terms of allocation performance and memory flexibility?
• Wartime causes of MASCAL?
• Peacetime causes of MASCAL?
• Which entity is responsible for signing Release of Remains with the funeral home, signing Authorization of Autopsy, and receiving patient belongings?
• What is a null pointer dereference and how can you prevent it?
• When completing the expired patient checklist, which personnel should be contacted?
• According to the material, after more than how many days on active duty does a soldier lose entitlement to medical and dental care?
• Who must sign documentation maintaining a means to track and establish accountability?
• Who will establish procedures with local authorities when personnel die outside the installation limits?
• Which practice helps prevent undefined behavior when accessing arrays?
• Intra-theater medical regulating coordinates movement using assets from which groups?
• What does Big-O notation describe in algorithm analysis?
• How many death tags are used per death packet?
• Which option does NOT belong on the expired patient checklist contact list?
• Which triage category is used for patients who are unlikely to survive even with immediate care?
• What is the difference between a macro and an inline function, and which is generally preferred for correctness?
• What is algorithmic stability, and why might it matter for sort operations?
• Which entity is responsible for tracking all patients evaluated, issuing MASCAL packets, and coordinating evacuation during MASCAL?
• How many death tags per patient?
• What is the role of the Staff Judge Advocate in Line of Duty investigations?
• Which term describes the activity of identifying patients awaiting evacuation, locating available beds, and coordinating transportation?
• If a function encounters an error, what is the recommended cleanup pattern before returning an error code?
• Remains cannot be shipped from the installation without a ______.
• The decimal point in coding is inserted after which characters?
• Why are C strings considered dangerous, and what is a safe way to work with them?
• Which triage category refers to patients who require immediate attention due to life-threatening injuries?
• Which description best captures pointer arithmetic in C?
• Which factor involves the number and location of patients by diagnostic category?
• How can you ensure thread-safety in a multi-threaded program in C?
• What process is used to evaluate and prioritize casualties during a mass casualty event?
• Which sanitizer detects memory leaks at runtime?
• What is cache-friendly data access, and how can it improve performance?
• Which category requires attention within minutes to 2 hours on arrival to avoid death or major disability?
• If int a[5]; reading a[5] results in which statement?
• Where are automatic local variables defined within a function typically allocated and deallocated?
• In C, what does undefined behavior mean when you access an array element with an index outside its valid range?
• Which statement about binary search is true?
• Explain the concept of time-space trade-offs with a simple example.
• Which term describes a mass casualty event?
• Why is direct equality comparison problematic for floating-point numbers?
• What does aliasing mean in the context of pointers?
• What must be done with personnel effects bags for MASCAL patients?
• Which statement describes how MASCAL identification tagging is applied?
• Wartime MASCALS are caused by which of the following?
• What paperwork is processed and submitted as the Death packet during MASCAL?
• Who is responsible for pronouncing a death and initiating the DA Form 3894?
• Describe the lifetime of memory allocated on the heap versus the stack.
• What packets are issued to track patients evaluated during MASCAL?
• How would you structure a small module to encapsulate a dynamic array in C (creation, append, free)?
• Where should death packets be stored?
• How would you protect against null pointer returns from memory allocation functions?
• What is the Hospital Report of Death form?
• What happens if a recursive function lacks a base case?
• What is a common pitfall with C preprocessor macros and how can you avoid it?
• After electronic completion, to whom is the DA Form 2173 forwarded?
• In C, for strtol, which statement about the end pointer is true?
• How can you efficiently merge two unsorted arrays into a sorted array without extra memory?
• Which is essential for protecting the interest of both the individual and the US Government?
• Which component focuses on coordinating movement and bed availability?
• PAD will be responsible for preparing and submitting reports to the Hospital Commander.
• In MASCAL triage, which category indicates that treatment can be delayed without immediate risk?
• When testing a function that accepts a pointer, what boundary case should you test?
• Which term is used to track patient data and movement in the MASCAL workflow?
• What is a key benefit of using inline functions over macros in C?
• Which system uses theater resources to evacuate patients to and between MTSs within a theater of operations?
• What issue can arise from mixed signed/unsigned comparisons in C, and how can you prevent it?
• True/False: When notified of a deceased patient, notify all interested persons within the MTF and on the installation per local policy.
• Which option is NOT a DIME category?
• What term describes the dynamic process of sorting casualties to identify the priority of treatment and evacuation given the limitations of the situation, mission, and resources?
• What is a good practice to prevent memory leaks in a test suite?
• Which acronym describes the set of four triage categories used in a MASCAL scenario?
• Which statement accurately describes intra-theater medical regulating?
• What does MTF stand for in this context?
• Which documents are collected for each patient during MASCAL, including Field Medical Card and SF 600?
• What type of determination is given when a member's medical condition existed prior to service?
• Disposition of Body is documented on which form?
• Which is a valid C function signature for a comparator used by qsort?
• How many components make up the evacuation system?
• Who is responsible for pronouncing a death and will initiate the Hospital Report of Death?
• How many death tags are used per death packet?
• Which statement best describes the difference between stack memory and heap memory in C programs?
• Which category includes injuries that overwhelm current medical resources at the expense of treating salvageable patients?
• The informal LD investigation begins with the DA Form 2173 completed by the MTF and annotated by the unit commander as requiring a ______.
• DIME represents four triage categories used in MASCAL. Which option lists all four categories?
• When would you use an enum instead of a series of #define constants, and what are the benefits?
• What is the purpose of a unit test and what are the AAA (Arrange-Act-Assert) pattern steps?
• Which fields are typically included in a simple dynamic array structure?
• Death Tags are documented on which form?
• MASCAL stands for?
• Under what condition is the Line of Duty determination finalized?
• Which role is responsible for issuing MASCAL packets?
• What is the purpose of establishing procedures with local authorities in the event of a death outside the installation?
• Which role is responsible for tracking all patients evaluated during a MASCAL, issuing MASCAL packets, collecting detailed patient information (e.g., Field Medical Card, SF 600), inventorying personal effects, coordinating evacuation, and processing death packet paperwork?
• Why is it important to run code through a linter and static analysis, and what can it catch?
• Name three common data structures and provide one typical operation with its average time complexity.
• When a member is voluntary absent without authority for more than 24 hours, what is he/she considered to be?
• Explain why you should avoid using magic numbers and how to replace them safely.
• What term describes patients who need care soon but not immediately?
• What is the difference between intra-theater and inter-theater?
• In a precondition validation strategy, what is typical behavior in debug vs release builds?
• Which factor influences Patient Movement (PM)?
• The Line of Duty investigation typically consists of the DA Form 2173 completed by which two parties and approved by which authorities?
• Which statement best describes the first character in coding?
• What is a format string vulnerability and how can you prevent it in C?
• Which movement describes moving patients to higher-level care facilities beyond the initial theater?
• If death occurs outside the limits of an installation, can the body be removed by military personnel without permission from local authorities?
• Where should MASCAL patients be built in the facility's records system?
• What does spatial locality refer to in cache-friendly data access?
• In defensive programming for C, which practice helps ensure resources are not leaked when an error occurs?
• Which party is responsible for promptly completing Section 1 of the DA Form 2173?
• Which of the following is a PAD clerk duty?
• Which tool is commonly used to detect memory leaks in C programs?
• Which term describes moving patients within the theater of a combatant command or CONUS?
• List problems associated with MASCALS.
• What data structure is typically used to implement a breadth-first search traversal?
• Which option correctly lists the four components of the evacuation system?
• The Death of a USAR or ARNG soldier serving on an AD tour of 30 days or less is disabled due to disease. Which determination applies?
• Problems associated with MASCAL?
• The Family must complete which tasks?