Multiple choice

Which of the following file access mechanism has a pointer to various blocks to access the each file directly in operating system?

  1. Direct/Random access

  2. Sequential access

  3. Indexed sequential access

  4. Both (2) and (3)

  5. None of the above
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C Correct answer
Explanation

In Indexed sequential access, an index is created for each file to search sequentially the records and the pointer is used to access the file directly.

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