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COM 226 File Organisation and Management

ND2 levelComputing & ICT12 topics

COM 226 covers 12 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

  1. File organisation concepts
  2. File records, fields and data units
  3. File operations
  4. Methods of file organisation
  5. File design alternatives
  6. Types of files
  7. Storage devices and media
  8. File access methods
  9. Buffering techniques
  10. File structures and processing
  11. File sorting and merging
  12. File updating, protection and security

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One topic, as StudyPath teaches it.

File organisation concepts

File organisation concepts explain how records are arranged on storage media so that they can be stored, found, updated, and retrieved efficiently. For examination purposes, you must master the meaning of file organisation, the major ways records can be arranged, and the trade-offs between access speed, storage overhead, and ease of update.

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