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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Q. In Flash memory, the erase operation can be performed on a number of pages, called an _______ at once, and takes about 1 to 2 milliseconds.

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Q. Hybrid disk drives are hard-disk systems that combine magnetic storage with a smaller amount of flash memory, which is used as a cache for frequently accessed data.

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Q. ______________ partitiones data and parity among all N+1 disks, instead of storing data in N-disks and parity in one disk.

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Q. Hardware RAID implementations permit _________ that is, faulty disks can be removed and replaced by new ones without turning power off.

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Q. ______________ which increases the number of I/O operations needed to write a single logical block, pays a significant time penalty in terms of write performance.

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Q. A unit of storage that can store one or more records in a hash file organization is denoted as

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Q. The file organization which allows us to read records that would satisfy the join condition by using one block read is

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Q. What are the correct features of a distributed database?

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Q. Each tablespace in an Oracle database consists of one or more files called

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Q. The management information system (MIS) structure with one main computer
system is called a

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Q. Choose the RDBMS which supports full fledged client server application development

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Q. One approach to standardization storing of data?

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Q. The highest level in the hierarchy of data organization is called

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Q. An audit trail ___________

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Q. Large collection of files are called ____________

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Q. Which of the following hardware component is the most important to the operation of database management system?

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Q. Which of the following is not true of the traditional approach to information processing

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