1.

Which of the following is the state bit that is set when an attempted operation fails?

ios::failbit

ios::badbit

ios::hardfail

ios::goodbit

None of these

2.

When a file is opened, the file stream object's "read position" is

at the end of the file

at the beginning of the file

nonexistent until the programmer declares it

in the middle of the file

None of these

3.

Which of the following is the member function that writes a single character to a file?

get

write

put

insert

None of these

4.

Which of the following data types can be used to create files and read information from them into memory?

ofstream

istream

ifstream

instream

None of these

5.

Which of the following is the data type that can be used to create files, read data from them, and write data to them?

ofstream

ifstream

fstream

stream

None of these

6.

All stream objects have ________ which indicate the position of the stream.

error state bits

condition statements

markers

intrinsic error messages

None of these

7.

ofstream, ifstream, and fstream are

header files

libraries

data types

string arrays

None of these

8.

Data stored ________ disappears once the program stops running or the computer is powered down.

on a CD

in RAM

on a flash drive

on the disk drive

None of these

9.

What is TRUE about the following statement? out.open("values.dat", ios::app);

If the file already exists, its contents are preserved and all output is written to the end of the file.

If the file already exists, it should be replaced with a new copy of values.dat.

If the file already exists, it can be opened but not modified.

None of these

10.

Closing a file causes any unsaved information still held in the file buffer to be

saved to the file

deleted

retained in the buffer for safekeeping

duplicated

None of these