Discussion
One disadvantage of a direct access file is:
Answer: A
Correct answer: the delay in computing the storage address
Direct access files find a record by computing its address from its key, and that computation - hashing, and the handling of collisions when two keys give the same address - takes time on every access. Unused locations and duplicated addresses are consequences of the same scheme but are not what slows it down.
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