Question

The static members are ______________________

(a) Created with each new object

(b) Created twice in a program

(c) Created as many times a class is used

(d) Created and initialized only once

The question was posed to me by my college director while I was bunking the class.

This intriguing question comes from Static Member Functions topic in division Exception Handling & Static Class Members of Object Oriented Programming

Answer 1

Right option is (d) Created and initialized only once

Easiest explanation - The static members are created only once. Then those members are reused whenever called or invoked. Memory is allocated only once.