Exam 12: Manipulating Larger Quantities of Data

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

A(n) ____________________ array is defined as any array that has more then one dimension.

When mathematicians use a two-dimensional array, they often call it a(n) ____________________.

Insertion sort is an unintuitive sorting algorithm, and bears little resemblance to any real-world manual sorting method.

In every popular computer coding scheme, "B" is numerically one greater than "A," and "y" is numerically one less than "z."

When you are unsure how many values in an array will need to be sorted, that array is said to be of ____________________ size.

In a ____ storage device, records can be accessed in any order.

____________________ order refers to a "real" order for storage.

The number of times you need to process the list of values is ____ than the number of elements in the array.

The greatest number of pair ____________________ you need to make during each bubble sort loop is one less than the number of elements in the array.

With an ascending bubble sort, after each adjacent pair of items in a list has been compared once, the largest item in the list will have risen to the top.

You can use a(n) ____ to access data records in a logical order that differs from their physical order.

____ identify computer memory and storage locations.

The ____________________ is a data structure that contains the physical address of the next record in every logical record.

When computers sort data, the type of values being compared are always ____________________.

An array that you can picture as a column of values, and whose elements you can access using a single subscript, is a ____ array.

____________________ arrays require two subscripts to reference the contained elements.

The maximum allowable number of array dimensions in many programming languages, including C# and Visual Basic, is ____________________.

The ____________________ of a record makes that record unique among all other records.

A(n) ____ is a structure in memory that contains records with one extra field for each record.