ibps-so 2016 · Question 42 of 394

A trainee at Chandrabhaga Urban Bank has been shown the stored record of a customer and has been asked to name its parts precisely. The record holds, one after another, the customer number, the name, the date of birth, the address and the mobile number of a single customer. Each of these is a separate named item, holds one particular kind of value of one particular width, and cannot be broken down further without ceasing to mean anything to the application. All the records of all the customers together, each holding the same items in the same order, make up the le, and in the relational representation each of those named items becomes one column of the table. In a database, such a single named item of data — the smallest unit that carries meaning to the application, of which a record is composed — is called a:

1. ARecord, which corresponds to a row of the table
2. BFile, which corresponds to the table itself
3. CByte, which is the smallest unit of storage the machine can address
4. DIndex, which is the structure by which a wanted item is found quickly
5. EField, which corresponds to a column of the table and holds one item of data about the entity the record describesCorrect