________ is an I/O-performance-enhancement technique—it reduces the number of I/O operations by combining smaller outputs together in memory; the number of physical I/O operations is much smaller than the number of I/O requests issued by the program.

a. Aggregating
b. Accumulating
c. Amassing
d. Buffering


D

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Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

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Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

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What will be an ideal response?

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