Question

State true or false: A hash index organizes the search keys, with their associated pointers, into a hash file structure

(a) True

(b) False

This question was addressed to me in an international level competition.

Origin of the question is Static Hashing topic in portion Indexing and Hashing of RDBMS

Answer 1

Correct answer is (a) True

For explanation: A hash index organizes the search keys, with their associated pointers, into a hash file structure. We can construct a hash index by applying a hash function on a search key and store the key and its associated pointers in the bucket.