File Organization Quiz

File organization is a combination of representations for data in files and operations for accessing them.

The functions of file organization include allowing applications to read, write, and modify data, as well as finding data that matches specific search criteria and reading through the data in a particular order.

File organization is important because secondary storage devices like disks can store large amounts of data in a small physical space, while computer memory (RAM) is limited. Accessing data from secondary storage is slower compared to accessing data from memory.

<p>Getting information from RAM takes 120 nanoseconds (10^-9 seconds).</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Getting information from a disk takes 30 milliseconds (10^-3 seconds).</p> Signup and view all the answers