TAR (Tape Archive) is a widely used archive file format in Unix/Linux environments. It is used to combine multiple files into a single archive file (with extension .tar).
Option A: Correct. TAR is specifically designed for archiving.
Option B (CSV): Incorrect. CSV (Comma-Separated Values) is a tabular text data format.
Option C (ARV): Incorrect — no such format.
Option D (Text): Incorrect. Though TAR may contain text files, the TAR format itself is not plain text but an archive format.
Option E: Incorrect since Option A is valid.
Thus, TAR is an Archive file format.
[Reference:, DASCA Data Scientist Knowledge Framework (DSKF) – Data Storage Formats in Data Science & Engineering., ]
