MCQ Bank
A __________ is a description of the entire database structure that is used by the database software to maintain the database.
- A) schema
- B) superschema
- C) nonschema
- D) subschema
In a queue, where are entries inserted?
- A) At the top
- B) At the head
- C) At the base
- D) At the tail
The end of a list is called the _________.
- A) devon
- B) tail
- C) bob
- D) head
In the context of maintaining employee records, an index is typically used for quick retrieval based on ________.
- A) employee's date of birth
- B) employee's department
- C) employee's name
- D) employee identification numbers
The index for a file is usually stored ________.
- A) separately on a different device
- B) within the RAM
- C) as a part of the main file
- D) as a separate file on the same device
The classic employee file uses _____ to contain information about a single employee in a company.
- A) hash functions
- B) keys
- C) buckets
- D) records
From a perspective, an entire file system in an operating system is like ________.
- A) a randomly arranged file
- B) a single large file
- C) one large indexed file
- D) a fragmented file
Act that gives control over what information websites can collect from kids is:
- A) COPPA
- B) HIPPA
- C) ECPA
- D) Video Privacy Protection
An index for a file contains a list of ________ stored in the file.
- A) data types
- B) file names
- C) directory paths
- D) keys
In hash file, if a disproportionate number of keys happen to hash to the same bucket, it may cause _____.
- A) clustering
- B) faster search
- C) even distribution
- D) efficient retrieval
In the United States the Privacy Act of 1974 was to protect citizens from abusive use of databases:
- A) Agencies
- B) Public
- C) Companies
- D) Government
Ethics and legality are essential in many industries including:
- A) All of these
- B) Doctors
- C) Teachers
- D) Government officer
When hashing is applied to a storage structure in mass storage, the result is called a ____________.
- A) bucket array
- B) hash file
- C) index structure
- D) hash table
A track that leads to a simulation oriented methodology:
- A) Proper
- B) Engineering
- C) Theoretical
- D) Intelligent
The field of linguistics tends towards which direction:
- A) Theoretical
- B) Business
- C) Engineering
- D) AI
Software licenses provide users with the right to one or more copies of the software without:
- A) Violating copyright
- B) Using copyright
- C) Using license
- D) Legislation
American throws away pieces of paper each year which is equal to:
- A) 1 billion trees
- B) 1.5 billion trees
- C) 2.5 billion trees
- D) 2 billion trees
A ____________ is a file that is accessed in a serial manner from its beginning to its end as though the information in the file were arranged in one long row.
- A) index file
- B) database file
- C) sequential file
- D) flat file
Legal notations to control digital ownership are:
- A) Copyrights
- B) Digital mediums
- C) Digital rules
- D) Ethics
Robots identifies veins by:
- A) Image processing
- B) Artificial intelligence
- C) Touching veins
- D) Testing