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A file organization component VSAM file isRelative records data setKeyed sequential data setEntry sequential data setAll of the above
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A file system with 512 GB disk uses a file descriptor with 16 direct block addresses, 1 indirect block address, 1 doubly indirect block address, 1 triple indirect block a...
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In _____ allocation method for disk block allocation in a file system, insertion and deletion of blocks in a file is easyIndexLinkedContiguousBit Map
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In the indexed scheme of blocks to a file, the maximum possible size of the file depends on:The number of blocks used for index and the size of indexSize of Blocks and si...
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Database application were directly built on top of file system to overcome the following drawbacks of using file-systems:Data redundancy and inconsistencyDifficulty in ac...
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How many disk blocks are required to keep list of free disk blocks in a $16$ GB hard disk with $1$ kB block size using linked list of free disk blocks ? Assume that the d...
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The directory structure used in Unix file system is calledHierarchical directoryTree structured directoryDirected acrylic graphGraph structured directory
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The directory can be viewed as _______ that translates filenames into their directory entries.Symbol tablePartition Swap spaceCache
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Which of the following is not file attribute?a)read only flagb)passwordc)record lengthd)relocation bit Is the answer is relocation bit?
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A sequential access file has fixed-size M-byte records. Assuming the first record is record 1, the first byte of record N will be at what logical location?a) (n-1)m+1b) (...
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The $mv$ command changesthe inodethe inode-numberthe directory entryboth the directory entry and the inode
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Which command is the fastest among the following?COPY TO <NEW FILE>COPY STRUCTURE TO <NEW FILE>COPY FILE <FILE 1 <FILE 2>COPY TO MFILE-DAT DELIMITED
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Match the following $:$$\begin{array}{clcl} \text{} & \textbf{List – I} && \textbf{List – II} \\ \text{a.} & \text{Contiguous allocation} & \text{i.} & \text{This schem...
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Which $\textsf{RAID}$ level gives block level striping with double distributed parity?$\textsf{RAID 10}$$\textsf{RAID 2}$$\textsf{RAID 6}$$\textsf{RAID 5}$
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A. what files are in the databaseB. what attribute are possessed by the dataC. what these files containD. All of the above
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A. File structureB. RecordsC. FieldsD. Database
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A locked database file can beAccessed by only one userModified by users with the correct passwordUsed to hide sensitive informationUpdated by more than one user
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Which is the best file organization when data is frequently added or deleted from a file?(A) Sequential (B) Direct(C) Index...
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Six files $\text{F1, F2, F3, F4, F5}$ and $\text{F6}$ have $100, 200, 50, 80, 120, 150$ records respectively. In what order should they be stored so as to optimize act. A...
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a computer system uses a single level directory structure.The directory occupies 2 disk blocks.The disk block size is 2KB. Directory entry size is 4 bytes. What is the ma...
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Given the disk Capacity of 30 MB has block size 512 bytes and block/cluster is 4, the number of entries require in the FAT table is?a) 30*2^11b) 30*2^20c) 30*2^31d) 30*2^...
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For a Hard disk of Capacity 20 MB . Disk block address of 16 bits and disk block size of 1 KB . The number of disk blocks required to store all the Free Blocks using Bitm...
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Please help me understanding the concepts of Disk Block AddressDisk Block SIze and numericals
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Given a data file with 100 records per pages and on index page capacity of 512 index entries, how deep should be the B++ tree to index this file.
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consider a file of 8192 records .each records is 16 bytes long and its key field is pf size 6 bytes.the file is ordered on a key field and the file organization is unspan...
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Consider a system where each file is associated with a 16 bit number. For each file, each user should have the read and write capability. How much memory is needed to sto...
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In a particular Unix OS, each data block is of size $1024$ bytes, each node has $10$ direct data block addresses and three additional addresses: one for single indirect b...
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A file system with a one-level directory structure is implemented on a disk with disk block size of $4K$ bytes. The disk is used as follows:$$\begin{array}{|l|}\hline \te...
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A FAT (file allocation table) based file system is being used and the total overhead of each entry in the FAT is $4$ bytes in size. Given a $100 \times 10^6$ bytes disk o...
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In the index allocation scheme of blocks to a file, the maximum possible size of the file depends onthe size of the blocks, and the size of the address of the blocks.the ...