• Show understanding of the methods of file organisation and select an appropriate method of file organisation and file access for a given problem
  • Including serial, sequential (using a key field), random (using a record key)
• Show understanding of methods of file access
  • Including
  • Sequential access for serial and sequential files
  • Direct access for sequential and random files
• Show understanding of hashing algorithms
  • Describe and use different hashing algorithms to read from and write data to a random / sequential file