2nd Year Computer Chapter 14 Notes

• Important Multiple Choice Questions of 2nd year computer chapter 14 mcqs of 2nd-year Computer Science.
• Q1: A __ is a set of related records: (a) Language (b) Function (c) File (d) Program
• Q2: A file is stored in: (a) RAM (b) ROM (c) Hard disk (d) Cache
• Q3: There are following types of streams: (a) 1 (b) 2 (c) 3 (d) 4
• Q4: In File handing sequence of bytes is called: (a) Text stream (b) File stream (c) Binary steam (d) Character stream
• Q5: A logical interface to a file is called: (a) I/O (b) FILE I/O (c) Stream (d) Pointer
• Important 2nd year computer chapter 14 mcqs with answers for Intermediate part-II students.
• Q6: Text stream have following correspondence with characters:
• (a) One to one (b) One to many (c) Many to one (d) All of these 
• Q7: A __ can store text only: (a) Binary file (b) Text file (c) Exe file (d) Object file
• Q8: To mention end of file point , following marker is used:  
• (a) File End ( FE ) (b) End File ( EF ) (c) End of File ( EF ) (d) End of File ( EOF ) 
• Q9: A text file is a ___ collection of characters: (a) Fresh (b) Old (c) Named (d) New
• Q10: If fptr = fopen ("afile.txt" , "r" ) statement is used to open a file then what would be the necessary condition ?: (a) The file must already exist (b) The file must contain valid student data (c) The file should be data file only (d) The type of file must be read only
• Q11: Fopen ( ) function takes ___ parameters: (a) 1 (b) 2 (c) 3 (d) 4
• Important 2nd year computer chapter 14 important mcqs for Intermediate part-II students.
• Q12: To open a file following function is used: (a) Open ( ) (b) File open ( ) (c) Fopen ( ) (d) Getc ( ) 
• Q13: In the absolute path of a file we use:  (a) \ (b) / (c) \\ (d) //
• Q14: Which mode opens only an existing file for both reading and writing?
• (a) "w" (b) "w+" (c) "r+" (d) "a+"
• Q15: In the statement FILE * fp ; the * denotes: (a) Pointer (b) Variable (c) Multiplication (d) Parameter
• Q16: A file can be closed using following function:  (a) close ( ) (b) fclose ( ) (c) file close ( ) (d) exit ( ) 
• Important 2nd year computer chapter 14 short questions for Intermediate part-II students.
• What is a data file?: Ans: A data file is a collection of related records. A record is a collection of fields. Any type of data can be stored in data files. Data in data files is stored permanently.
• What is a stream?
• Important 2nd year computer chapter 14 important long questions for Intermediate part-II students.
• What are the different types of streams?
• What is a text stream?
• What is a binary stream?
• What is an input stream?
• What is an output stream?
• What is a pointer?
• What is a file pointer? 
• What is getche() function? 
• Important 2nd year computer chapter 14 long questions for Intermediate part-II students.
• What is a string?: Ans: A collection of character enclosed in double quotations is called a string. The variable that is used to store a string is called string variable. C language does not provide any special data type to store string. As string is a combination of characters, a char array is used to store string.
• What is the purpose of fopen() function?
• What is the purpose of fputs() function?
• What is the purpose of fgets() function?
• What is the purpose of putc() function.
• What is the purpose of getc() function.
• What is the purpose of fprintf() function.
• What is the purpose of fscanf() function.
• Important 2nd year computer chapter 14 long questions pdf download for Intermediate part-II students.
• What is the purpose of fclose() function: Ans: When a file is open it is transferred from secondary storage to main memory. A connection is established between C program and file with the help of file pointer. When a file is closed its contents are transferred from main memory to secondary storage. Its connection with C program breaks. File pointer is destroyed and data of file becomes inaccessible. If a file is not closed properly some data may lose. The function fclose( ) is used to close a file opened by fopen( ) function.