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A set of review questions is provided at the end of each section. If you can answer these questions, you are ready to move on to the next section. If you have difficulty answering the questions, review the information in this section until you can provide the answers.

1.         What is the difference between a record and a filed?

2.         How many field types are available in a standard XBASE database?

3.         How long can a field name be?

4.         What kind of character must be used as the first letter in a field name?

5.         What is meant by the term text string?

6.         Describe the punctuation marks in the following command line.

                                ^{7[“Quit” Student’s Scoring Program (Y/N)?]}

7.         What is accomplished with the QUIT command?

8.         When a numeric field is used, what is counted to compute the field width value?

9.         How do you access the contents of a Memo field?

10.       How can you abbreviate a database command?

11.       What does <Ctrl+W> do to an open database structure?

12.       Explain how database command can be abbreviated