Textbook MCQ with Answers CH-11 File Handling

1. Which of the following statements is true?
a. Volatile storage lasts only a few seconds.
b. Volatile storage is lost when a computer is shutdown.
c. Computer disks are volatile storage devices.
d. All of these

2. Which of the following refers to a collection of data stored on a non-volatile device in a Computer system?
a. File       
b. application         
c. volatile data (d)        
d. hard disk

3. The data hierarchy occurs in which of the following order from the smallest to largest?
a. file : character : field : record             
b. file : character : record : field
c. character : field : file : record             
d. character : field : record : file

4. Which of the following is true about streams?
a. Streams always flow in two directions
b. Streams are channels through which the data flow
c. Only one stream can be open in a program at a time.
d. All of these

5. Which of the following is used as a separator between fields of a record?
a. Path         
b. delimiter           
c. variable             
d. space

6. Scanner class can be used to for performing which of the following operations?
a. accept input from the keyboard         
b. read from the file
c. Parse a string separated by delimiters    
d. All of these