Prelim

Question 1

____ gives us the possibility to manage large amounts of data efficiently for uses such as large databases and internet indexing services

Answer 1

Data Structure

Question 2

___ are essential ingredients in creating fast and powerful algorightms. They help in managing and organizing datra, reduce compexity, and increwase efficiency.

Answer 2

Data Structure

Question 3

___ are the basic data strctures provided by programming languages to represent single values, such as integers, floating-point numbers, characters, and booleans

Answer 3

Primitive Data Structure

Question 4

____ are higher level data structures that are built using primitive data types and provide more complex and specialized operations. Some common examples of this include arrays, linked list, stacks, queues, trees, and graphs

Answer 4

Abstract Data structure

Question 5

A set of step-by-step instructions to solve a given problem or achieve a specific goal

Answer 5

Algorithm

Question 6

Algorithm examples

Answer 6

Finding the fastest route in a GPS navigation system
Navigation an airplan or a car(cruise control)
Finding what users search for (search engine)

Question 7

___ and ___ go hand in hand.

Answer 7

Data structure | algorithm

Question 8

What is DSA

Answer 8

Data structure and Algorithm

Question 9

In Python, ___and ___are the data structures that are used to store multiple items. They both support the indexing of elements to access them, slicing, and iterating over the elements. In this article, we will see the difference between the two

Answer 9

lists |arrays

Question 10

Accessing element is fast in ____ because they are in a contiguous manner but insertion and deletion is quite expensive because all the elements are shifted from the position of inserting and deleting element linearly.

Answer 10

Python Arrays

Question 11

Accessing an element in a ____ is the same as an Array because a ____ is actually a dynamic array .

Answer 11

Python List

Question 12

A ___in Python is an inbuilt collection of items that can contain elements of multiple data types, which may be either numeric, character logical values, etc.

Answer 12

List

Question 13

It is an ordered collection supporting negative indexing.

Answer 13

List

Question 14

A list can be created using ____ containing data values. Contents of lists can be easily merged and copied using Python’s inbuilt functions.

Answer 14

[ ]

Question 15

An ____is a vector containing homogeneous elements i.e. belonging to the same data type

Answer 15

array

Question 16

Typically the size of an array is ___.

Answer 16

fixed

Question 17

Arrays can be used by ___the array module

Answer 17

importing

Question 18

LIST or ARRAY | Can consist of elements belonging to different data types

Answer 18

LIST

Question 19

LIST OR ARRAY | Only consists of elements belonging to the same data type

Answer 19

ARRAY

Question 20

LIST or ARRAY |No need to explicitly import a module for the declaration

Answer 20

LIST

Question 21

LIST OR ARRAY |
Can directly handle arithmetic operations

Answer 21

ARRAY

Question 22

LIST or ARRAY | Consume larger memory for easy addition of elements

Answer 22

LIST

Question 23

LIST or ARRAY | Need to import proper modules to perform these operations.

Answer 23

ARRAY

Question 24

are specifically used to store a collection of numeric elements that are all of the same type

Answer 24

ARRAY

Question 25

___ are more flexible than arrays in that they can hold elements of different types (int, str, obj, ect)

Answer 25

List

Question 26

Supports a variety of operations that can modify

Answer 26

List

Question 27

Ordered collection which means it maintains the order of elemts as they were added

Answer 27

List

Question 28

An unordered collection of unique elemts. It automatically removes any duplicates entries

Answer 28

SET

Question 29

Ordered sequenece of elements that can contain items of different types

Answer 29

List

Question 30

As provicded by Phyton’s array module, used primarily for stroing homogenous numeric data

Answer 30

Array

Question 31

An unordered collection of key-value pairs

Answer 31

Dictionary

Question 32

Removes an elements at a specific index and returns it

Answer 32

Pop

Question 33

often being useful when implementing data structures like stacks and queues

Answer 33

pop()