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| 1. |
Physical partitioning can be done using: |
| A. | fdisk |
| B. | Disk Driud |
| C. | Both (a) and (b) |
| D. | None |
| Answer» C. Both (a) and (b) | |
| 2. |
RPM stands for |
| A. | Random Process Management |
| B. | Red Hat Package Manager |
| C. | Both (a) and (b) |
| D. | None |
| Answer» B. Red Hat Package Manager | |
| 3. |
IP address is a |
| A. | Static address |
| B. | Dynamic address |
| C. | Both (a) and (b) |
| D. | None |
| Answer» C. Both (a) and (b) | |
| 4. |
NFS stands for |
| A. | New file system |
| B. | Network file system |
| C. | Netware file system |
| D. | None of the above |
| Answer» B. Network file system | |
| 5. |
By default, one can mount |
| A. | CDs onto your device as root |
| B. | Floppy disk onto your device as root |
| C. | Pen drive |
| D. | Magnetic tapes |
| Answer» A. CDs onto your device as root | |
| 6. |
The agency that sits between the user and the LINUX system is called the |
| A. | logic |
| B. | shell |
| C. | .profile |
| D. | .exec |
| Answer» B. shell | |
| 7. |
Which is the earliest and most widely used shell that came with the UNIX system? |
| A. | C shell |
| B. | Korn shell |
| C. | Bourne shell |
| D. | Smith Shell |
| Answer» C. Bourne shell | |
| 8. |
In Bourne shell, which file sets the Unix environment for the user when the logs into his HOME directory. |
| A. | .exec |
| B. | .last login |
| C. | .profile |
| D. | .mbox |
| Answer» C. .profile | |
| 9. |
The seventh field of /etc/password is |
| A. | password |
| B. | login |
| C. | shell |
| D. | home |
| Answer» C. shell | |
| 10. |
The UNIX file system stores a date in physical blocks of |
| A. | 1,024 bytes |
| B. | 512 bytes |
| C. | 2,048 bytes |
| D. | 256 bytes |
| Answer» B. 512 bytes | |
| 11. |
Which of the following is not the component of LINUX? |
| A. | CPU |
| B. | Kernel |
| C. | Shell |
| D. | Utilities |
| Answer» A. CPU | |
| 12. |
What hardware architectures are not supported by Red Hat? |
| A. | SPARC |
| B. | IBM-compatible |
| C. | Alpha |
| D. | Macintosh |
| Answer» D. Macintosh | |
| 13. |
How can you add Amit, a new user, to your system? |
| A. | Using useradd |
| B. | Using adduser |
| C. | Using linuxconf |
| D. | All of the above |
| Answer» D. All of the above | |
| 14. |
How many primary partitions can exist on one drive? |
| A. | 16 |
| B. | 4 |
| C. | 2 |
| D. | 1 |
| Answer» B. 4 | |
| 15. |
RPM |
| A. | stands for Red Hat Package Manager |
| B. | is used to install, uninstall, and manage packages |
| C. | is used to keep track of the users |
| D. | assigns a dynamic IP address |
| Answer» A. stands for Red Hat Package Manager | |
| 16. |
What command is used to query for a specific package with RPM? |
| A. | rpm –q |
| B. | rpm –a |
| C. | rpm –d |
| D. | rpm –l |
| Answer» A. rpm –q | |
| 17. |
What script is run for setting bash global defaults for all users? |
| A. | /etc/.profile |
| B. | /etc/.bashrc |
| C. | /etc/.log |
| D. | /etc/profile |
| Answer» D. /etc/profile | |
| 18. |
Who founded the Linux Kernel? |
| A. | Bill Gates |
| B. | Ben Thomas |
| C. | Richard Stallman |
| D. | Linus Torvalds |
| Answer» D. Linus Torvalds | |
| 19. |
____ tool allows you to change your default X Window desktop. |
| A. | Utilinux |
| B. | Cempre |
| C. | Switchdesk |
| D. | Window |
| Answer» C. Switchdesk | |
| 20. |
In what file can you specify which users are not allowed to access a system via FTP? |
| A. | /etc/ftpusers |
| B. | /etc/hosts.deny |
| C. | /etc/ftpaccess |
| D. | All of the above |
| Answer» A. /etc/ftpusers | |
| 21. |
Which program is used to schedule particular jobs or programs at particular times on the system? |
| A. | vi |
| B. | Outlook |
| C. | Scheduler |
| D. | cron |
| Answer» D. cron | |
| 22. |
Which command can force all buffers to disk? |
| A. | save |
| B. | sync |
| C. | edbuff |
| D. | flush |
| Answer» B. sync | |
| 23. |
How many extended partitions can exist on one drive? |
| A. | 16 |
| B. | 4 |
| C. | 2 |
| D. | 1 |
| Answer» D. 1 | |
| 24. |
The location of some system configuration and system administrator executable files, is: |
| A. | /home |
| B. | /proc |
| C. | /var |
| D. | /sbin |
| Answer» D. /sbin | |
| 25. |
The location for subdirectories for local programs and executables for user and administrative commands is: |
| A. | /usr |
| B. | /tmp |
| C. | /opt |
| D. | /mnt |
| Answer» A. /usr | |
| 26. |
LILO |
| A. | stands for Linux loader |
| B. | is the Linux boot loader |
| C. | is a tool used to boot the Kernel on x86 hardware |
| D. | All of the above |
| Answer» D. All of the above | |
| 27. |
Which of the following tool is used to partition your hard drive? |
| A. | mkfs |
| B. | fdisk |
| C. | fsck |
| D. | mount |
| Answer» B. fdisk | |
| 28. |
What command can be used to get information about yourself? |
| A. | which |
| B. | pwd |
| C. | i/4 |
| D. | who am i |
| Answer» D. who am i | |
| 29. |
Which of the following tool allows the user to change the default X Window desktop? |
| A. | Switchdesk |
| B. | Intrc |
| C. | Xinitre |
| D. | Xchange |
| Answer» A. Switchdesk | |
| 30. |
What command is used to halt a Linux system? |
| A. | init 0 |
| B. | Shutdown –t |
| C. | Shutdown -g -y0 |
| D. | Ctrl+Alt+Del |
| Answer» A. init 0 | |
| 31. |
SVR4 was developed by |
| A. | Sun Microsystems |
| B. | AT&T |
| C. | University of Berkeley |
| D. | Sun and AT&T jointly |
| Answer» D. Sun and AT&T jointly | |
| 32. |
Which of these is not a Unix Flavor? |
| A. | BSD |
| B. | MAC |
| C. | AIX |
| D. | IRIX |
| Answer» B. MAC | |
| 33. |
Which of the following statement is FALSE? |
| A. | Unix supports multiple users |
| B. | Linux is an open source operating system and the source code is shared |
| C. | Shell takes care of inter process communication |
| D. | Shell provides the feature of I/O Redirection |
| Answer» C. Shell takes care of inter process communication | |
| 34. |
Which of the following UNIX flavor is from IBM? |
| A. | BSD |
| B. | Solaris |
| C. | HP-UX |
| D. | AIX |
| Answer» D. AIX | |
| 35. |
x86-32 uses which programming model? |
| A. | IP16 |
| B. | IP32 |
| C. | ILP16 |
| D. | ILP32 |
| Answer» D. ILP32 | |
| 36. |
What are the sizes of (Integer/Long/Pointer) in LP64 programming model? |
| A. | 8/8/8 |
| B. | 4/4/8 |
| C. | 4/8/8 |
| D. | 4/8/4 |
| Answer» C. 4/8/8 | |
| 37. |
Which among the following is used to write small programs to control Unix functionalities? |
| A. | Shell Commands |
| B. | Shell Script |
| C. | Filters |
| D. | C Language |
| Answer» B. Shell Script | |
| 38. |
What control character signals the end of the input file? |
| A. | ctrl + a |
| B. | ctrl + b |
| C. | ctrl + c |
| D. | ctrl + d |
| Answer» D. ctrl + d | |
| 39. |
How do the user gets the help about the command “cp”? |
| A. | help cp |
| B. | man cp |
| C. | cd ? |
| D. | none |
| Answer» B. man cp | |
| 40. |
UNIX/Linux kernel is? |
| A. | Monolithic |
| B. | micro |
| C. | Exo |
| D. | nano |
| Answer» A. Monolithic | |
| 41. |
To increase the response time and throughput, the kernel minimizes the frequency of disk access by keeping a pool of internal data buffer called |
| A. | Pooling |
| B. | Spooling |
| C. | Buffer cache |
| D. | Swapping |
| Answer» C. Buffer cache | |
| 42. |
At start of process execution, STDOUT & STDERR |
| A. | Point to current terminal device |
| B. | Are closed |
| C. | Point to special files on the system |
| D. | None of the above |
| Answer» A. Point to current terminal device | |
| 43. |
wtmp and utmp files contain: |
| A. | Temporary system data |
| B. | User login-logout log |
| C. | The user’s command execution log |
| D. | The user’s su and sudo attempts |
| Answer» B. User login-logout log | |
| 44. |
Which is the core of the operating system? |
| A. | Shell |
| B. | Kernel |
| C. | Commands |
| D. | Script |
| Answer» B. Kernel | |
| 45. |
ILP32 stands for |
| A. | 32 bit Integer, Long & Pointer |
| B. | 32 bit Integrated Long & Pointer |
| C. | 32 bit Intelligent Long & Pointer |
| D. | 32 bit Long & Pointer |
| Answer» A. 32 bit Integer, Long & Pointer | |
| 46. |
Single Unix Specification Version 2 provides enhanced support for |
| A. | 16 bit Unix |
| B. | 32 bit Unix |
| C. | 64 bit Unix |
| D. | 8 bit Unix |
| Answer» C. 64 bit Unix | |
| 47. |
Under UNIX the key board is the default input device and the monitor is the default output device |
| A. | True |
| B. | False |
| C. | none |
| D. | all |
| Answer» A. True | |
| 48. |
Which among the following interacts directly with system hardware? |
| A. | Shell |
| B. | Commands |
| C. | Kernel |
| D. | Applications |
| Answer» C. Kernel | |
| 49. |
Applications communicate with kernel by using: |
| A. | System Calls |
| B. | C Programs |
| C. | Shell Script |
| D. | Shell |
| Answer» A. System Calls | |
| 50. |
Solaris is the name of a flavor of UNIX from |
| A. | HP |
| B. | IBM |
| C. | Digital Equipment Corp |
| D. | Sun Microsystems |
| Answer» D. Sun Microsystems | |
| 51. |
Which of the following commands is used to summarize the disk usage? |
| A. | chkdsk |
| B. | du |
| C. | fdisk |
| D. | disk |
| Answer» B. du | |
| 52. |
Which of the following commands is used to copy directory structures in and out? |
| A. | cp |
| B. | cp-p |
| C. | cpio |
| D. | copy |
| Answer» C. cpio | |
| 53. |
Which of the following commands is used to change the working directory? |
| A. | cd |
| B. | chdir |
| C. | changedir |
| D. | cdir |
| Answer» A. cd | |
| 54. |
Which of the following commands is used to count the total number of line, words and characters contained in a file? |
| A. | count p |
| B. | wcount |
| C. | wc |
| D. | countw |
| Answer» C. wc | |
| 55. |
Which of the following commands is used to list contents of directories? |
| A. | 1s |
| B. | dir |
| C. | 1p |
| D. | tar |
| Answer» A. 1s | |
| 56. |
Which of the following commands is used to list remove files? |
| A. | erase |
| B. | rm |
| C. | delete |
| D. | dm |
| Answer» B. rm | |
| 57. |
Which of the following commands is used to count just the number of lines contained in a file? |
| A. | wc – 1 |
| B. | wc - w |
| C. | wc - c |
| D. | wc - r |
| Answer» A. wc – 1 | |
| 58. |
Which of the following directories contain all the files created by a user, including his login directory? |
| A. | /tmp |
| B. | /usr |
| C. | /etc |
| D. | /dev |
| Answer» B. /usr | |
| 59. |
Which command is used to copy the three files wb, collect and mon into the misc directory, under the same, when you were currently in the programs directory? |
| A. | copywb collect mon /mis |
| B. | cpwb collect mon ../misc |
| C. | copywb ../misccollect ../mismon ../misc |
| D. | tarwb collect mon /misc |
| Answer» B. cpwb collect mon ../misc | |
| 60. |
Which command is used to assign only read permission to all three categories of the file ‘note’? |
| A. | chmod a-rw |
| B. | chmodgo+r note |
| C. | chmodugo = r = note |
| D. | chmodu+r, g+r, o-x note |
| Answer» C. chmodugo = r = note | |
| 61. |
Which command is used to make all files and sub-directories in the directory (prog) executable by all users? |
| A. | chmod –R a+xprogs |
| B. | chmod –x a+xprogs |
| C. | chmod -1 a+xprogs |
| D. | chmod –R 222 progs |
| Answer» A. chmod –R a+xprogs | |
| 62. |
The chmodugo+rw note command can be represented in octal notation as |
| A. | chmod 555 note |
| B. | chmod 666 note |
| C. | chmod 333 note |
| D. | chmod 444 note |
| Answer» B. chmod 666 note | |
| 63. |
Which of the following commands is used to view the file 24 lines at a time? |
| A. | pg |
| B. | 1p |
| C. | cat |
| D. | /p |
| Answer» A. pg | |
| 64. |
The second set of the three permissions (r-) indicates that |
| A. | group has read permission only |
| B. | other has read permission only |
| C. | group has write permission only |
| D. | owner has read permission only |
| Answer» A. group has read permission only | |
| 65. |
The dmesg command |
| A. | Shows user login logoff attempts |
| B. | Shows the syslog file for info messages |
| C. | Kernel log messages |
| D. | Shows the daemon log messages |
| Answer» C. Kernel log messages | |
| 66. |
The command “mknodmyfifo b 4 16” |
| A. | Will create a block device if user is root |
| B. | Will create a block device for all users |
| C. | Will create a FIFO if user is not root |
| D. | None of the above |
| Answer» A. Will create a block device if user is root | |
| 67. |
Which command is used to set terminal IO characteristic? |
| A. | tty |
| B. | ctty |
| C. | ptty |
| D. | stty |
| Answer» D. stty | |
| 68. |
Which command is used to record a user login session in a file ? |
| A. | macro |
| B. | read |
| C. | script |
| D. | none of the above |
| Answer» C. script | |
| 69. |
Which command is used to display the operating system name ? |
| A. | os |
| B. | Unix |
| C. | kernel |
| D. | uname |
| Answer» D. uname | |
| 70. |
Which command is used to display the unix version ? |
| A. | uname -r |
| B. | uname -n |
| C. | uname -t |
| D. | kernel |
| Answer» A. uname -r | |
| 71. |
Which command is used to print a file ? |
| A. | |
| B. | ptr |
| C. | lpr |
| D. | none of the above |
| Answer» C. lpr | |
| 72. |
Using which command you find resource limits to the session? |
| A. | rlimit |
| B. | ulimit |
| C. | setrlimit |
| D. | getrlimit |
| Answer» B. ulimit | |
| 73. |
Which option of ls command used to view file inode number ? |
| A. | –l |
| B. | -o |
| C. | –a |
| D. | –i |
| Answer» D. –i | |
| 74. |
Find / -name ‘*’ will |
| A. | List all files and directories recursively starting from / |
| B. | List a file named * in / |
| C. | List all files in / directory |
| D. | List all files and directories in / directory |
| Answer» A. List all files and directories recursively starting from / | |
| 75. |
In which directory can you store system user default files used for creating user directories? |
| A. | /usr/tmp |
| B. | /etc/default |
| C. | /etc/skel |
| D. | /etc/users |
| Answer» C. /etc/skel | |
| 76. |
What command do you use to create Linux file systems? |
| A. | fdisk |
| B. | mkfs |
| C. | fsck |
| D. | mount |
| Answer» B. mkfs | |
| 77. |
What command is used to display the characteristics of a process? |
| A. | au |
| B. | ps |
| C. | du |
| D. | pid |
| Answer» B. ps | |
| 78. |
What command is used to list the files chap0l, chap02 and chap04? |
| A. | ls chap* |
| B. | ls chap[124] |
| C. | ls - x chap0[124] |
| D. | ls chap0[124] |
| Answer» C. ls - x chap0[124] | |
| 79. |
What command is used to add printing jobs to the queue? |
| A. | lpd |
| B. | lpr |
| C. | lpq |
| D. | lpc |
| Answer» B. lpr | |
| 80. |
What command is used to list contents of directories? |
| A. | tar |
| B. | dir |
| C. | lp |
| D. | ls |
| Answer» D. ls | |
| 81. |
Command used to determine the path of an executable file is |
| A. | which |
| B. | where |
| C. | wexec |
| D. | what |
| Answer» A. which | |
| 82. |
Command used to count number of character in a file is |
| A. | grep |
| B. | wc |
| C. | count |
| D. | cut |
| Answer» B. wc | |
| 83. |
Which of these commands could you use to show one page of output at a time? |
| A. | less |
| B. | sed |
| C. | pause |
| D. | grep |
| Answer» A. less | |
| 84. |
Which commands will give you information about how much disk space each file in the current directory uses? |
| A. | ls -l |
| B. | ls -la |
| C. | du |
| D. | ls -a |
| Answer» C. du | |
| 85. |
Which of the following command output contains userid? |
| A. | ls |
| B. | help |
| C. | date |
| D. | ls –l |
| Answer» D. ls –l | |
| 86. |
Which command is used to display all the files including hidden files in your current and its subdirectories ? |
| A. | ls –aR |
| B. | ls –a |
| C. | ls –R |
| D. | ls –l |
| Answer» A. ls –aR | |
| 87. |
Which of the following commands can be used to copy files across systems? |
| A. | ssh |
| B. | telnet |
| C. | rsh |
| D. | ftp |
| Answer» D. ftp | |
| 88. |
pwd command displays |
| A. | user password |
| B. | password file content |
| C. | present working directory |
| D. | none of the mentioned |
| Answer» C. present working directory | |
| 89. |
Which of the following commands can be used to change default permissions for files and directories at the time of creation |
| A. | Chmod |
| B. | Chown |
| C. | Umask |
| D. | Chgrp |
| Answer» C. Umask | |
| 90. |
Which tar command option is used to list the files in a tape archive format? |
| A. | cvf |
| B. | tvf |
| C. | xvf |
| D. | ovf |
| Answer» B. tvf | |
| 91. |
Which of the following commands will allow the user to search contents of a file for a particular pattern |
| A. | touch |
| B. | grep |
| C. | find |
| D. | ls |
| Answer» B. grep | |
| 92. |
Write the command to display the current date in the form dd/mm/yyyy. |
| A. | date +%d/%m/%Y |
| B. | date +”%d/%m/%Y” |
| C. | date +/%d/%m/20%y |
| D. | date +”/%d/%m/20%y” |
| Answer» A. date +%d/%m/%Y | |
| 93. |
Which one shows the name of the operating system? |
| A. | uname -n |
| B. | uname -r |
| C. | uname -o |
| D. | uname –m |
| Answer» C. uname -o | |
| 94. |
How do you add (append) a file “file1” to the example.tar file |
| A. | no you cannot add a file to example.tar |
| B. | tar -cvf example.tar file1 |
| C. | tar -rvf file1 example.tar |
| D. | tar -evf file1 example.tar |
| Answer» C. tar -rvf file1 example.tar | |
| 95. |
How to execute ls command inside a vi editor? |
| A. | !ls |
| B. | :ls |
| C. | :!ls |
| D. | we can’t execute |
| Answer» C. :!ls | |
| 96. |
Which command gives the first byte where the difference is in the file1 & file2? |
| A. | diff |
| B. | cmp |
| C. | comm |
| D. | ls -a |
| Answer» B. cmp | |
| 97. |
To open a file file1 with cursor at line number 4 |
| A. | vi +num file1 |
| B. | vi +set num file1 |
| C. | vi + “set num” file1 |
| D. | vi +/se nu file1 |
| Answer» A. vi +num file1 | |
| 98. |
sed is a command typically used for |
| A. | Perform complex calculations |
| B. | Perform FIFO based non-blocking I/O |
| C. | Modify/print selective contents of a file |
| D. | None of the mentioned |
| Answer» C. Modify/print selective contents of a file | |
| 99. |
What communication command provides communication to another user logged on by writing to the bottom of their terminal? |
| A. | talk |
| B. | write |
| C. | chat |
| D. | transmit |
| Answer» A. talk | |
| 100. |
Which screen manipulation command sets the screen back to normal? |
| A. | tput cup |
| B. | tput smso |
| C. | tput rmso |
| D. | tput blink |
| Answer» C. tput rmso | |
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