This question came is GATE 2008, and it is very important question as it covers some good concepts of indexing.
GATE2008-70
Consider a file of 16384 records. Each record is 32 bytes long and its key field is of size 6 bytes. The file is ordered on a non-key field, and the file organization is unspanned. The file is stored in a file system with block size 1024 bytes, and the size of a block pointer is 10 bytes. If the secondary index is built on the key field of the file, and a multi-level index scheme is used to store the secondary index, the number of first-level and second-level blocks in the multi-level index are respectively
A) 8 and 0
B) 128 and 6
C) 256 and 4
D) 512 and 5
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