Exam 7: File Handling and Applications

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

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

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

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

When a program uses a ____, it reads all the records in the file from beginning to end, processing them one at a time.

What happens when you fail to close an output file?

Images and music are contained in binary files.

____ storage is not lost when a computer loses power.

What does the term batch processing mean?

Programmers usually use the word "write" to mean "produce hard copy output."

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

The keyboard and printer are the default input and output devices.

Because they enable you to locate a particular record directly (without reading all of the preceding records), random access files are also called ____ files.

When you store data in a computer file on a persistent storage device, you ____________________ to the file.

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

A database holds related file data in ____ .

A program in which the user makes direct requests is a(n)____________________ program.

Define and give examples of text files and binary files.