What makes a SECTION of a job conditional?

• A. PAUSE and RESUME
• B. JUMP and CALL
• C. IFTHEN and ENDIF
• D. LOOP and ENDLOOP

Answer: (C)

A section becomes conditional when its execution is governed by a boolean test. In this terminology, wrapping the section with a conditional block—IFTHEN followed by ENDIF—means the code inside runs only if the specified condition evaluates to true. If the condition is false, the robot skips that entire block and continues with the rest of the program. This is the mechanism that makes a portion of the job execute conditionally, rather than always running.

Pause and Resume control whether the program halts or continues, but not conditionality of a block based on a test. Jump and Call move flow to other parts of the program or to subroutines, not to conditionally enable or disable a block. Loop and Endloop repeat a block of instructions, which is repetition, not a conditional gate.