What is a symbolic debugger? What are some of the facilities provided by it to help you identify bad code in your program?

A symbolic debugger is tool that can be used trace the execution of a program symbolically. usually they also have GUI interfaces. The facilities provided by these symbolic debuggers are:

• running programs
• setting break points
• single stepping
• listing source code
• editing source code
• accessing and modifying variables
• tracing program execution
• displaying activation records on the program stack
• searching for functions, variables and objects
• displaying values of variables and expressions

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A technician has just finished implementing a solution for a network issue. Which of the following steps in troubleshooting should the technician do NEXT?

A. Document the issue and the solution that was implemented. B. Escalate the issue to another technician. C. Test if the solution works and identify other effects it may have. D. Gather information about the issue

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