Linux OS, Basic OS Internals i.

Default interface to Linux (31) What command is used to

and Shell Commands (16) Which binary format is summarize the disk usage?
supported by Linux? i. du
(1) Which command is used to
i. Both a.out and ELF (32) Which Linux command is used
move one level up in the Linux
(17) What command is used with vi for renaming files and
directory tree?
editors to append text at the directories?
i. cd ..
end of line? i. mv
(2) ________ are special functions
i. A (33) _______ command is used to
or programs using which
(18) Which command in Linux is remove the contents of your
application programs accesses
used to display information terminal.
Kernel's features. 
about files and directories i. clear
i. System libraries
contained within the current (34) In Linux _____ command is
(3) What command is used to
working directory? used to switch to the
remove the directory?
i. ls administrative account in the
i. rmdir
(19) What command is used to sort current login session. 
(4) Which of the Linux command-
the lines of data in a file in i. su
line commands listed below is
reverse order? (35) Which command will ensure
used for directory traversal?
i. sort - r that everything in the buffer is
i. cd
(20) ________  command is used to written to disk?
(5) _____ command is used
change his /her own password i. sync
to move the cursor back to the
in Linux. (36) What is the purpose of
beginning of the preceding
i. passwd “chmod” command in Linux?
word.
(21) _____ command is used to i. Changes file access
i. b
count the number of lines in a permissions
(6) What is the purpose of ls
file. (37) Which of the following is not a
-a command in Linux?
i. wc - l communication command?
i. View all files
(22) What command is used to i. grep
(7) Which of the answers listed
print a file? (38) What command is used to
below refers to a Linux
i. lp display your current
command for copying files and
(23) What command is used to username?
directories?
count the number of i. whoami
i. cp
characters in a file? (39) Which of the following
(8) Which command is used to
i. wc - c command is used to mount
change the permission of a
(24) Which of the following NFS filesystems?
file?
command is used to turn off a i. mount
i. chmod
Linux host? (40) What command is used to
(9) The maximum file name size in
i. Shutdown display the top of the file?
Linux is 255 bytes.
(25) What command is used to i. head
i. True
compare the files? (41) ______ command will allow
(10) The first process launched by
i. cmp the user to create single or
the linux kernel is
(26) _______ command is used in multiple files, concatenate
___________.
Linux for deleting files and files, and redirect output in
i. Init process
directories. terminal or files.
(11) What is the need for the
i. Rm i. cat
chown command in Linux?
(27) A low-level utility used for (42) Which Linux command is used
i. Changes file owner and group
creating/restoring filesystem to display an absolute path (i.e.
permissions
backup copies in Linux is full filename ) to the current
(12) A Linux command-line utility
called__________. working directory? 
used for displaying and
i. dd i. pwd
modifying network interface
(28) A Linux command that allows (43) What is the core of a Linux
configuration settings is
user to modify security Operating System?
called________.
privileges in order to execute a i. Kernel
i. ifconfig
single command that requires (44) Linux uses a time-sharing
(13) Which of the following key
root access permissions is algorithm ___________ .
combination will allow the user
called_______. i. To pair preemptive
to terminate a current process
i. sudo scheduling between multiple
in the Linux shell?
(29) Which of the following is a processes
i. Ctrl + C
feature of Linux? (45) What command is used in the
(14) To remove non-
i. Multiuser, Multitasking vi editor to delete a single
empty directories and all the
(30) What command is used to character?
files within them, use the rm
show all the i. x
command with the
last commands that have been
____ option.
recently used?
i. -r
i. history
(15) What is Shell used for?
 Basics of Unix, Files (18) Which of the following is not a
System and Directory part of all the versions of
Management UNIX?
i. Graphical user interface
(1) Which shell operator can be (19) Which command is used to
used to place a command to change the group owner of the
execute in background? file?
i. & i. chgrp
(2) What is UNIX? (20) Shell is a command interpreter
i. an operating system used for interacting with a
(3) A single user can have the UNIX system.
computer work on more than i. TRUE
one task or program at the (21) POSIX is a set of standards
same time. specified for establishing
i. multitask compatibility between
(4) For creating and removing operating systems.
directories, which of the i. TRUE
following system calls are (22) The part of the Unix operating
used? system that interacts with the
i. mkdir and rmdir hardware is called
(5) In a tree structure, when i. The kernal
deleting a directory that is not (23) Which command is used for
empty? printing the current working
i. The contents of the directory directory?
are also deleted i. pwd
(6) An absolute path name begins (24) What does the following
at the _____________ command do?
i. root $ mkdir dir dir/dir_01/dir_02
(7) A tree structure ______ the i. create dir, dir_01 and dir_02
sharing of files and directories. (25) When we log in, the UNIX
i. restricts places us in a directory, called
(8) Choose the odd one out. ______ directory
i. kernal i. home
(9) A relative path name begins at (26) Which part of the UNIX
the _____________ operating system interacts
i. current directory with the hardware?
(10) cd command cannot be used i. Kernel
without any argument. (27) Two UNIX systems may or may
i. FALSE not use the same set of system
(11) Which path is refers to the calls.
exact path as referenced from i. FALSE
the root directory. (28) The shell does the following in
i. Absolute path Unix
(12) _____ and _____ cannot be i. Is the user interface
used in a filename. (29) Which command is used to list
i. /, NULL all the files?
(13) Multiple directories can be i. ls
removed using single rmdir (30) Which command is used for
command. creating directories?
i. TRUE i. mkdir
(14) The root directory is
represented by ___
i. /
(15) Which of the following is not a
feature of UNIX?
i. easy to use
(16) Which command is used for
changing the current
directory?
i. cd
(17) In which language UNIX is
written?
i. C
 Commands in Unix (16) Which of the following files
contains information related to
(1) Which command is used to password aging?
sort the lines of data in a file in i. password
reverse order (17) Which of the following is not a
i. sort -r filter?
(2) Which command is used to i. None of these (cat, grep, wc,
display the top of the file? sort)
i. head (18) Which of the following
(3) Which symbol will be used commands is used to count the
with grep command to match total number of lines, words,
the pattern pat at the and characters contained in a
beginning of a line? file.
i. ^pat i. wc
(4) Which command is used to (19) Which of the following
extract specific columns from commands is used to identify
the file? the type of file by context?
i. cut i. file
(5) The command which (20) Which command is used to
transcribes the standard input display and create files?
to the standard output and i. cat
also makes a copy of the same (21) Which of the following
in a file is commands is used to have a
i. tee two-way communication with
(6) Which of the following any person who is currently
commands is used to update logged in?
access and modification times i. write
of a file? (22) Which of the following
i. tough commands can be used to get
(7) Which of the following files will information about yourself?
displayed by this command cat i. who am i
*ch* (23) The command that can be
i. None of these (patch, catch, used to restrict incoming
.ch) messages to a user is
(8) Which of the following i. mesg
command addresses all users (24) Which command is used to
who are currently hooked on? display the end of the file?
i. wall i. tail
(9) Which of the following is not a (25) Which of command is used to
communication command. copy a file?
i. grep i. cp
(10) Which command is used to (26) Which command is used to link
display the characteristics of a the files?
process? i. ln
i. ps (27) Which command is used to
(11) Which command is used to display the device name of the
sort the lines of data in a file in terminal you are using?
alphabetical order? i. tty
i. sort (28) Which of the following
(12) Which of the following commands can be used to get
commands is used to view information about all users
your file 24 lines at a time? who are currently logged into
i. pg the system?
(13) The command used to i. who
compare the files is known as (29) Which command is used with
i. cmp vi editor to move cursor
(14) Which command is used to forward to first occurrence of
terminate a process? character 'ch' in the current
i. kill line?
(15) Which of the following i. Fch
commands is used to (30) Which of the following
summarize the disk usage? commands is used to remove
i. Du files?
i. rm
 VI - Editor Commands (19) Pressing ‘:’ in command mode
invokes which mode of vi
(1) In vi editor ctrl-l is used to? editor?
i. clear the screen i. ex-mode
(2) In a system, if 5 people are cur (20) ____ command moves the
rently using the vi editor. then  cursor to the end of next line.
the number of corresponding p i. $
rocesses will be (21) vi environment is determined
i. 5 by variable settings. These
(3) Which editor is used by the variables are controlled by
UNIX system to edit files? ____ command.
i. vi i. :set
(4) To save a file and remain in vi (22) The run control file in Vi is
editor, which one of the called
following command will be i. .exrc
used? (23) t command positions the
i. :w cursor a single character
(5) We can perform word before the occurrence.
navigation in vi editor. i. True
i. True (24) The editor that is nearly as
(6) To clear the screen in vi editor, important as the Vi editor is
_____ is used. i. Emacs
i. ctrl-l (25) For searching a character, ___
(7) How can we escape to the and ___ are used.
UNIX shell without quitting vi i. f, t
editor? (26) Use the following command to
i. using ‘:sh’ command and using save and exit from Vi.
ctrl-Z i. d. Both a and b (ZZ, :wq)
(8) What is the default mode of vi (27) For customizing vi, which of
editor? the following command is
i. Command mode used?
(9) Which key is used for deleting i. set, map, abbr
text? (28) Which symbol is used for
i. d repeating the last command?
(10) Copying is referred to as i. .
yanking in vi editor. (29) Which operator is used in vi to
i. True filter text?
(11) In vi editor, the key i. !
combination CTRL+f (30) vi editor stores most of its
i. moves screen down one page information in a hidden swap
(12) Which of the following file.
symbols are used for searching i. True
a pattern in vi?
i. / and ?
(13) Which command is used to
redo the changes made by the
undo command?
i. ctrl-r
(14) To copy (yank) lines in vi
editor, we use ______
command.
i. yy
(15) The Vi editor has 2 separate
modes
i. Insert and edit
(16) Which command searches the
string in file opened in vi
editor?
i. / or ?
(17) Which operator is used to
show unused line in VI editior?
i. ~
(18) vi commands are not case
sensitive.
i. False
 Shell Scripting Basics
(1) To spawn a child of our own
choice for running the
script,  we can use the
______  command.
i. sh
(2) Which of the following is used
for storing the number of
positional parameters?
i. $#
(3) Command-line arguments are
stored into positional
parameters. The first argument
is read by the shell into the
parameter ______.
i. $1
(4) Choose the command to print
the current working directory.
i. pwd
(5) A single read statement can be
used with one or more
variables.
i. TRUE
(6) Which character can be used
to separate two commands on
the same line?
i. ;
(7) Shell scripts need to be saved
with an extension (.sh).
i. FALSE
(8) What is the command to
display the ‘file’ contents page-
wise?
i. cat file|more
(9) Which command is used for
making the scripts interactive?
i. read
(10) In general, the working
directory of the user root is
______.
i. /root
(11) To run the script, we should
make it executable first by
using ______.
i. chmod +x
(12) The first line in any shell script
begins with a ______.
i. #
(13) Choose the correct option to
replace all the occurrences of
pattern1 with pattern2  using
vi editor.
i. %s/pattern1/pattern2/g
(14) What is a shell script?
i. a file containing a series of
commands
(15) Which of the following is
correct to create an alias name
for 'ls' as 'list'?
i. alias list=”ls”