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<div class="textblock"><p>Navigate back: <a class="el" href="index.html">Main</a> / <a class="el" href="_getting_started.html">Getting Started with HDF5</a> / <a class="el" href="_learn_basics.html">Learning the Basics</a> </p><hr />
<p><a class="el" href="_l_b_file_org.html">HDF5 File Organization</a> </p><ol>
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Name and describe the two primary objects that can be stored in an HDF5 file. </li>
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What is an attribute? </li>
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Give the path name for an object called <code style="background-color:whitesmoke;">harry</code> that is a member of a group called <code style="background-color:whitesmoke;">dick</code>, which, in turn, is a member of the root group. </li>
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<p><a class="el" href="_l_b_a_p_i.html">The HDF5 API</a> </p><ol>
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Describe the purpose of each of the following HDF5 APIs: <div class="fragment"><div class="line">H5A, H5D, H5E, H5F, H5G, H5T, H5Z </div>
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<p><a class="el" href="_l_b_file_create.html">Creating an HDF5 File</a> </p><ol>
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What two HDF5 routines must be called to create an HDF5 file? </li>
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What include file must be included in any file that uses the HDF5 library? </li>
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An HDF5 file is never completely empty because as soon as it is created, it automatically contains a certain primary object. What is that object? </li>
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<p><a class="el" href="_l_b_dset_create.html">Creating a Dataset</a> </p><ol>
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Name and describe two major datatype categories. </li>
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List the HDF5 atomic datatypes. Give an example of a predefined datatype. How would you create a string dataset? </li>
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What does the dataspace describe? What are the major characteristics of the simple dataspace? </li>
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What information needs to be passed to the <a class="el" href="group___h5_d.html#ga0647ba4bbd26d5230cc07f3a5685b2cf">H5Dcreate</a> function, i.e., what information is needed to describe a dataset at creation time? </li>
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<p><a class="el" href="_l_b_dset_r_w.html">Reading From and Writing To a Dataset</a> </p><ol>
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What are six pieces of information which need to be specified for reading and writing a dataset? </li>
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Why are both the memory dataspace and file dataspace needed for read/write operations, while only the memory datatype is required? </li>
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In Figure 6.1, what does this line mean? <div class="fragment"><div class="line">DATASPACE { SIMPLE (4 , 6 ) / ( 4 , 6 ) }</div>
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What is an attribute? </li>
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Can partial I/O operations be performed on attributes? </li>
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What are the two primary objects that can be included in a group? </li>
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<p><a class="el" href="_l_b_grp_create_names.html">Creating Groups using Absolute and Relative Names</a> </p><ol>
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Group names can be specified in two ways. What are these two types of group names? </li>
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You have a dataset named <code style="background-color:whitesmoke;">moo</code> in the group <code style="background-color:whitesmoke;">boo</code>, which is in the group <code style="background-color:whitesmoke;">foo</code>, which, in turn, is in the <code style="background-color:whitesmoke;">root</code> group. How would you specify an absolute name to access this dataset? </li>
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Describe a way to access the dataset moo described in the previous section (question 2) using a relative name. Describe a way to access the same dataset using an absolute name. </li>
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