MIS 525 Week 7 Quiz

MIS 525 Week 7 Quiz | Devry University

Week 7 Review Questions - ONLINE VERSION 

Question 1

Random access memory is _____.  

·         permanent    

·         volatile  

·         persistent  

·         continual

 Question 2

Which is true of text files?  

·         Text files contain data that can be read in a text editor.  

·         Text files commonly contain images and music.  

·         both of the above  

·         none of the above

Question 3

Every file on a storage device has a _____.  

·         name  

·         size   

·         both of the above  

·         none of the above

Question 4

Which of the following is true regarding the data hierarchy?  

·         files contain records  

·         characters contain fields  

·         fields contain files  

·         fields contain records

Question 5

The process of _____ a file locates it on a storage device and associates a variable name within your program with the file.  

·         opening  

·         closing 

·         declaring  

·         defining

Question 6

"When you write to a file, you _____."   

·         move data from a storage device to memory  

·         copy data from a storage device to memory   

·         move data from memory to a storage device  

·         copy data from memory to a storage device

Question 7

"Unlike when you print a report, when a program s output is a data file, you do not _____."  

·         include headings or other formatting  

·         open the files  

·         include all the fields represented as input  

·         all of the above

Question 8

"When you close a file, it _____." 

·         is no longer available to the program  

·         cannot be reopened  

·         becomes associated with an internal identifier  

·         ceases to exist

Question 9

A file in which records are stored one after another in some order is a(n) _____ file.  

·         temporal  

·         sequential

·         random 

·         alphabetical

Question 10

"When you combine two or more sorted files while maintaining their sequential order based on a field, you are _____ the files."  

·         tracking  

·         collating    

·         merging  

·         absorbing

Question 11

A control break occurs when a program _____.  

·         takes one of two alternate courses of action for every record  

·         "ends prematurely, before all records have been processed" 

·         pauses to perform special processing based on the value of a field  

·         passes logical control to a module contained within another program

Question 12

Which of the following is an example of a control break report?  

·         "a list of all customers of a business in zip code order, with a count of the number of customers who reside in each zip code"  

·         "a list of all students in a school, arranged in alphabetical order, with a total count at the end of the report"  

·         "a list of all employees in a company, with a message Retain or Dismiss following each employee record"  

·         a list of some of the patients of a medical clinic those who have not seen a doctor for at least two years

Question 13

A control break field _____.  

·         always is output prior to any group of records on a control break report 

·         always is output after any group of records on a control break report

·         never is output on a report  

·         causes special processing to occur

Question 14

"Whenever a control break occurs during record processing in any control break program, you must _____."  

·         declare a control break field  

·         set the control break field to 0   

·         update the value in the control break field  

·         output the control break field

Question 15

"Assume you are writing a program to merge two files named FallStudents and SpringStudents. Each file contains a list of students enrolled in a programming logic course during the semester indicated, and each file is sorted in student ID number order. After the program compares two records and subsequently writes a Fall student to output, the next step is to _____."  

·         read a SpringStudents record  

·         read a FallStudents record  

·         write a SpringStudents record  

·         write another FallStudents record

 Question 16

"When you merge records from two or more sequential files, the usual case is that the records in the files _____."  

·         contain the same data  

·         have the same format  

·         are identical in number  

·         are sorted on different fields

Question 17

A file that holds more permanent data than a transaction file is a _____ file.  

·         master 

·         primary

·         key 

·         mega-

Question 18

A transaction file is often used to _____ another file.  

·         augment  

·         remove  

·         verify    

·         update

Question 19

The saved version of a file that does not contain the most recently applied transactions is known as a _____ file.  

·         master  

·         child  

·         parent 

·         relative

Question 20

Random access files are used most frequently in all of the following except _____.  

·         interactive programs   

·         batch processing 

·         real-time applications  

·         programs requiring direct access