Chapter 11

Question 1

____________ is lost when a computer loses power.

Answer 1

Volatile storage

Question 2

A collection of data stores in a nonvolatile device in a computer system is a

Answer 2

File

Question 3

A complete list of the disk drive plus the hierarchy of directories in which a file resides is its

Answer 3

Path

Question 4

What does Path p = f.getPath(“C\Java\MyFile.txt”); do?

Answer 4

Creates a Path named p to a FileStream named f

Question 5

A path that needs no additional information to locate a file is

Answer 5

Absolute path

Question 6

The Path class getFileName() method returns

Answer 6

The last item in a Path’s list of name elements

Question 7

File.checkAccess() always returns the same value as

Answer 7

File.exists(file)

Question 8

You cannot delete a Path

Answer 8

If it represents a directory that is not empty

Question 9

The data hierarchy occurs in the following order from smallest to largest piece of data

Answer 9

Character, field, record, file

Question 10

When records are accessed one after the other in the order in which they were stored, their file is being used as a _________ access file.

Answer 10

Sequential

Question 11

If you fail to close an output file,

Answer 11

You might lose access to the written data

Question 12

Streams are channels through which _______ flow

Answer 12

bytes

Question 13

A buffer

Answer 13

Holds bytes that are scheduled for input or output

Question 14

InputStream is

Answer 14

An abstract class

Question 15

Java’s print() and println() methods are defined in the ______ class

Answer 15

PrintStream

Question 16

The newOutputStream() method

Answer 16

Creates a file if it does not already exist

Question 17

__________ does the same thing as BufferedWriter class newLine() method.

Answer 17

System.getProperty (“line.separator”)

Question 18

What would use batch processing

Answer 18

A payroll system

Question 19

Real-time applications

Answer 19

Use random access files

Question 20

A file channel

Answer 20

Is seekable