I understood this as follows: when the program is running, one can programatically turn on/off assertions. This is not possible, is it? I'm not very deep into reflection classes, but it seems off. I was positive that the wording doesn't mean "turn off/on when starting a program", because, to me, "at runtime" clearly indicates in-program, while-executing terminology.Assertions can be enabled or disabled at runtime
If the point of this answer is to confuse people (which the real exam may very well do as well, i understand), then leave it in. Otherwise, I suggest to change the wording to something like "...when the program is run from the command line".