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WGU D278 2026 COMPREHENSIVE EXAM SCRIPT COMPLETE ANSWER SET
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◉Define Library Functions Answer: Functions that relate to the same purpose (i.e., teacher, student, grades) ◉What is a characteristic of a Markup Language? Answer: Allows a developer to describe a document's content, formatting ◉What is the main characteristic of Object-Oriented Language Answer: It supports decomposing programs into objects (C++, Java, Python, C#) ◉What is the main characteristic of Interpreted/Scripting Language Answer: It runs sequential statements by another program called an interpreter (Python, Javascript) ◉What is the main characteristics of a Compiled Language? Answer: A program which is converted by a compiler into machine code which runs on particular machines (C++, Java)
◉What is SDLC? Answer: The System Development Life Cycle is the development phases of programs ◉What is the Waterfall Approach? Answer: A program built by carrying out each SDLC phase in sequence ◉What are the four phases of SDLC? Answer: Analysis, Design, Implementation, and Testing ◉What is the Agile (Spiral) Approach? Answer: A program built by doing small amounts of each SDLC phases in sequence, then repeating the process ◉What does UML mean and what is its definiton? Answer: Univeral Modeling Language is a model for software design that uses different types of diagrams to visualize the structure and behavior of programs ◉What are the three diagrams that UML consists of? Answer: A structure diagram, a behavioral diagram, a sequence diagram ◉What is a structural diagram? Answer: it visualizes static elements of software, such as the types of variables and functions used in a program
◉What is a characteristics of a Compiled Language? Answer: Statically-typed - constant variable declaration ◉What is an advantage of a Compiled Language? Answer: Runs faster than interpreted language