Q. Which of the following need to be stored in the data dictionary?

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Q. The subsystem responsible for the allocation of buffer space is called as _______

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Q. What is the full form of LRU (in buffer replacement strategy)?

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Q. The _________ is the fastest and most costly form of storage, which is relatively small; its use is managed by the computer system hardware.

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Q. Which of the following stores several gigabytes of data but usually lost when power failure?

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Q. The flash memory storage used are

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Q. __________ is increasingly being used in server systems to improve performance by caching frequently used data, since it provides faster access than disk, with larger storage capacity than main memory.

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Q. Which is the cheapest memory device in terms of costs/bit ?

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Q. The primary medium for the long-term online storage of data is the __________ where the entire database is stored on magnetic disk.

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Q. Optical disk _______ systems contain a few drives and numerous disks that can be loaded into one of the drives automatically (by a robot arm) on demand.

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Q. There are “record-once” versions of compact disk and digital video disk, which can be written only once; such disks are also called __________ disks.

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Q. Tape storage is referred to as __________ storage.

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Q. In magnetic disk ________ stores information on a sector magnetically as reversals of the direction of magnetization of the magnetic material.

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Q. A __________ is the smallest unit of information that can be read from or written to the disk.

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Q. The disk platters mounted on a spindle and the heads mounted on a disk arm are together known as ___________

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Q. The disk controller uses ________ at each sector to ensure that the data is not corrupted on data retrieval.

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Q. _________ is the time from when a read or write request is issued to when data transfer begins.

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Q. The time for repositioning the arm is called the ________ and it increases with the distance that the arm must move.

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Q. _________ is around one-half of the maximum seek time.

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Q. Once the head has reached the desired track, the time spent waiting for the sector to be accessed to appear under the head is called the _______________

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