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Week 8 Pre-Test - Attempt 1

Question1

Marks: 1

When you write a program that stores a value in a variable, you are using ____ storage.

Choose one answer.

a. permanent

b. temporary

c. resilient

d. resident

Question2

Marks: 1

To generate a control break report, your input records must be organized in ____ order based on the field that will caus

the breaks.

Choose one answer.

a. random

b. ascending

c. sequential

d. repeatable

Question3

Marks: 1

A ____ is a file in which records are stored one after another in some order.

Choose one answer.

a. random access file

b. serial file

c. retired file

d. sequential file

Question4

Marks: 1

As pages in a book have numbers, computer memory and storage locations have ____.

Choose one answer.

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a. positions

b. pointers

c. addresses

d. references

Question5 Marks: 1

____ are arrays that have more than one dimension.

Choose one answer.

a. Multidimensional arrays

b. One-dimensional arrays

c. Diverse dimensioned arrays

d. Unary dimensional arrays

Question6

Marks: 1

Each element in a two-dimensional array requires ____ subscript(s) to reference it.

Choose one answer.

a. one

b. two

c. three

d. four

Question7

Marks: 1

A ____ is a collection of data stored on a nonvolatile device in a computer system.

Choose one answer.

a. computer message

b. computer interface

c. computer file

d. computer selector

Question8

Marks: 1



The ____ is used as a statistic in many cases because it represents a more typical case.

Choose one answer.

a. mode

b. mean

c. average

d. median

Question9

Marks: 1

When you copy data from a file on a storage device into RAM, you ____ from the file.

Choose one answer.

a. delete

b. upload

c. output

d. read

Question10

Marks: 1

The combination of the disk drive plus the complete hierarchy of directories in which a file resides is its ____.

Choose one answer.

a. pointer

b. path

c. locator

d. stream

Question11

Marks: 1

The sorting process is usually reserved for a relatively large number of data items.

Answer:

True False

Question12

Marks: 1

In a ____, items in a list are compared with each other in pairs.

Choose one answer.



a. quick sort

b. shell sort

c. bubble sort

d. selection sort

Question13 Marks: 1

An array whose elements you can access using a single subscript is a/an ____ array.

Choose one answer.

a. one-dimensional

b. multi-dimensional

c. non-dimensional

d. differential

Question14

Marks: 1

When computers sort data, they always use ____ values when making comparisons between values.

Choose one answer.

a. numeric

b. alphanumeric

c. alphabetic

d. binary

Question15

Marks: 1

____ involves combining two or more files while maintaining the sequential order.

Choose one answer.

a. Merging files

b. Sorting files

c. Splitting files

d. Dividing files

Question16

Marks: 1



When you base a class on another using inheritance, the original class is the ____.

Choose one answer.

a. peer

b. subordinate

c. parent

d. child

Question17

Marks: 1

Because they enable you to locate a particular record directly (without reading all of the preceding records), random acc

files are also called ____ files.

Choose one answer.

a. direct access

b. indirect access

c. sequential access

d. temporary access

Question18

Marks: 9

Match each item with a statement below.

Groups of related records

Thousands of bytes

Letters, numbers, and special symbols, such as “A”, “7”, and “$”

Not lost when a computer loses power

Holds complete and relatively permanent data

Millions of bytes

Lost when the program ends or the computer loses power

Single useful data items that are composed of one or more characters

Billions of bytes

Question19



Marks: 1

A ____ break is a break in the logic of the program that is based on the value of a single variable.

Choose one answer.

a. multiple-level control

b. simple control

c. serial control

d. single-level control

Question20

Marks: 1

____ are groups of fields that go together for some logical reason.

Choose one answer.

a. Tables

b. Databases

c. Columns

d. Records

Question21

Marks: 1

____ is the more general term to mean an entity that organizes files.

Choose one answer.

a. Folder

b. Path

c. Structure

d. Directory

Question22 Marks: 1

Every time you add a new record to a linked list, you search through the list for the correct ____ location of the new rec

Choose one answer.

a. physical

b. interpreted

c. logical



d. inferred

Question23

Marks: 1

The terms “parent” and “child” refer to file backup generations, but they are used for a different purpose in object-orien

programming.

Answer:

True False

Question24

Marks: 1

Every time you add a new record to a linked list, you search through the list for the correct logical location of the new

record.

Answer:

True False

Question25

Marks: 1

You declare files in the same way you declare variables and constants—by giving each file a data type and an identifier.

Answer:

True False

Question26

Marks: 1

A two-dimensional array contains two dimensions: ____.

Choose one answer.

a. size and scope

b. breadth and height

c. height and width

d. depth and width

Question27

Marks: 1

When you write a program and save it to a disk, you are using volatile storage.

Answer:

True False

Question28

Marks: 1

Files exist on ____, such as hard disks, DVDs, USB drives, and reels of magnetic tape.

Choose one answer.



a. permanent storage devices

b. transient storage devices

c. scalable storage devices

d. optical storage devices

Question29 Marks: 1

A bubble sort is sometimes called a ____.

Choose one answer.

a. dropping sort

b. sinking sort

c. ring sort

d. pair sort

Question30

Marks: 1

You can easily merge files even if each file contains a different record layout.

Answer:

True False

Question31

Marks: 1

Directories and ____ are organization units on storage devices.

Choose one answer.

a. folders

b. files

c. partitions

d. streams

Question32

Marks: 1

One way to access records in a desired order, even though they might not be physically stored in that order, is to create

a/an ____.

Choose one answer.

a. linked list



b. array

c. indexed file

d. table

Question33

Marks: 1

You do not need to determine a record’s exact physical address in order to use it.

Answer:

True False

Question34

Marks: 1

In most programming languages, before an application can use a data file, it must ____.

Choose one answer.

a. open the file

b. close the file

c. read the file

d. prepare the file

Question35

Marks: 1

When you use an index, you can store records on a ____ storage device.

Choose one answer.

a. linear-access

b. random-access

c. sequential-access

d. uniform-access

Question36 Marks: 1

When you ____ a file, it is no longer available to your application.

Choose one answer.

a. examine

b. rewrite

c. close



d. index

Question37

Marks: 1

When a record is removed from an indexed file, it has to be physically removed.

Answer:

True False

Question38

Marks: 1

When records are in ____ order, they are arranged one after another on the basis of the value in a particular field.

Choose one answer.

a. random

b. sequential

c. some

d. incremental

Question39

Marks: 1

A ____ is a temporary detour in the logic of a program.

Choose one answer.

a. sequence break

b. control break

c. control sequence

d. break control

Question40

Marks: 1

When you create a ____ report, the records must have been sorted in order by a key field.

Choose one answer.

a. summary

b. control break

c. detail

d. control option

Question41

Marks: 1



In every popular computer coding scheme, “A” is numerically one greater than “B.”

Answer:

True False

Question42

Marks: 9

Match each item with a statement below.

a “real” order for storage

arranging records from lowest to highest value within a field

a number that indicates the position of a particular item within an array

the arithmetic average

arranging records from highest to lowest value

a virtual order based on any criterion you choose

placed in order, based on the contents of one or more fields

a series or list of values in computer memory, all of which have the same name and data type but are

differentiated with special numbers called subscripts

the value of the middle item when the values are listed in order

Question43

Marks: 1

Characters are made up of smaller elements called ____.

Choose one answer.

a. fields

b. records

c. bits

d. bytes

Question44

Marks: 1

When you ____ records, you store a list of key fields paired with the storage address for the corresponding data record

Choose one answer.



a. store

b. tab

c. underscore

d. index

Question45 Marks: 1

When mathematicians use a two-dimensional array, they often call it a ____ or a table.

Choose one answer.

a. vector

b. matrix

c. ray

d. cube

Question46

Marks: 1

____ is processing that involves performing the same tasks with many records, one after the other.

Choose one answer.

a. Volume processing

b. Batch processing

c. Online processing

d. Standard processing

Question47

Marks: 1

When you store data records, they exist in ____.

Choose one answer.

a. some type of order

b. the reverse order from how they were entered

c. the same default ordering for all systems

d. a random order

Question48

Marks: 1



To correctly swap two values, you create a/an ____ variable to hold one of the values.

Choose one answer.

a. per-swap

b. inversion

c. conversion

d. temporary

Question49

Marks: 1

____ is not lost when a computer loses power.

Choose one answer.

a. Temporary storage

b. Intermediate storage

c. Permanent storage

d. Variable storage

Question50

Marks: 1

The ____ is skewed by a few very high or low values.

Choose one answer.

a. mode

b. median

c. mean

d. standard deviation

Question51

Marks: 1

A ____ is a copy that is kept in case values need to be restored to their original state.

Choose one answer.

a. read-only file

b. backup file

c. primary file



d. secondary file

Question52

Marks: 1

A record’s ____ field is the field whose contents make the record unique among all records in a file.

Choose one answer.

a. row

b. column

c. secondary

d. key

Question53

Marks: 1

Because “A” is always less than “B”, alphabetic sorts are ____ sorts.

Choose one answer.

a. descending

b. reversing

c. ascending

d. downward

Question54 Marks: 1

The mainline logic for a program that merges two files contains preliminary, housekeeping tasks; a detail module that

repeats until the end of the program; and some clean-up, end-of-job tasks.

Answer:

True False

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