The process of debt servicing involves paying off
a. accumulated interest
b. face value of the loan
c. both a & c

Exchanging which type of data uses the least bandwidth? music photographs video voice bandwidth- the amount of data that can be moved between two points in a set time period

One of your customers wants you to build a personal server that he can use in his home. one of his concerns is making sure he has at least one backup of their data stored on the server in the event that a disk fails. you have decided to back up his data using raid. since this server is for personal use only, the customer wants to keep costs down. therefore, he would like to keep the number of drives to a minimum. which of the following raid systems would best meet the customer's specifications? a. raid 0 b. raid 1 c. raid 5 d. raid 10

Suppose there is a relation r(a, b, c) with a b+-tree index with search keys (a, b).1. what is the worst-case cost of finding records satisfying 10 < a < 50 using this index, in terms of the number of records n1, retrieved and the height h of the tree? 2. what is the worst-case cost of finding records satisfying 10 < a < 50 and 5 < b < 10 using this index, in terms of the number of records n2 that satisfy this selection, as well as n1 and h defined above? 3. under what conditions on n1 and n2, would the index be an efficient way of finding records satisfying the condition from part (2)?