MCQs

1. Which commands are used to list all the files in the current directory (including the
hidden commands)?
a. ls-l
b. ls-a
c. ls-t
d. ls-I
2. __________ is the shell that is used for a single user mode.
a. Bash
b. Csh
c. Ksh
d. Sh
3. Single user mode shell runs as a(n) __________.
a. Admin user
b. Root user
c. Normal user
d. Log user
4. Which of the following are the true functionalities of a kernel?
a. Allocates time and memory to programs
b. Authenticates users
c. Interprets commands
d. All of the above
5. A shell is ___________________
a. An interface between the kernel and the hardware
b. An interface between the user and the applications
c. Acommand interpreter
d. A command compiler
6. The command cat n file will ________________________
a. Add a new line after every thingof the output
b. Add line numbers to every line of output
c. Will show only number of lines
d. None of the above.

Comment [H1]: Please note the footer in the

document. Not clear as to delete it or not. Please
check.

7. Which of the following will show the first 5 lines of the input file?
a. Less -5 filename
b. Head -5 filename
c. More -5 filename
d. None of the above
8. cat file.txt | less
The above command __________
a. Shows error
b. Displays one page
c. If a file has a large number of containers that wont fit in the output terminal,
thescreen scrolls up very fast
d. None of the above
9. Which command is used to read file and display the file at a time?
a. Head
b. More
c. Tail
d. Less
10. $ mkdir dir5
$ cd !$
What is the output of the above piece of code?
a. Points to dir5
b. Points to home directory
c. Shows the path
d. None of the above
11. Which of the following commands gives the available space mounted on the file system?
a. Du
b. Df-h
c. Du-sh
d. Free
12. Which command is used to assign read-write permission to the owner?
a. Chmoda+r file
b. Chmodo+r file
c. Chmod u=rw file
d. Chmodog-r file

13. The permission -rwxrr represented in an octal expression will be ______.

a. 744
b. 666
c. 777
d. 711

14. The command 'fgrepstrcpy *.c ' is used to _______________.

a. copy the string in to all files in the current directory
b. search the string in all files in the current directory
c. copy the string in to all files in all the directories
d. search the string in all files in all the directories
15. Command used to display the number of the line containing "{" in a program is _____.
a. fgrep -f { pgm.c
b. fgrep -i { pgm.c
c. fgrep -c { pgm.c
d. fgrep -h { pgm.c
16. The '-regex' option in 'locate' command is used to _________.
a. interpret all the patterns as extended regular expressions
b. search for a basic regular expression
c. search for a word regex
d. search for a basic regular expression and no patterns are allowed
17. One of the following commands tells touch to use that file1 time stamps instead of current
time.
a. touch -r file1 file2
b. touch -r file2 file1
c. touch -r file2 -B 30 file1
d. touch -r file1 -B 30 file2
18. 'grep -A <N> "string" FILENAME' displays
a. specified N lines around the match
b. specified N lines after the match
c. search for N in the file
d. specified N lines before the match.

19. Which is the correct order of OSI PDUs?

a.
b.
c.
d.

Data, Packet, Frame, Segment, Bit

Bit, Data, Packet, Segment, Frame
Data, Segment, Packet, Frame, Bit
Bit, Frame, Segment, Packet, Data

20. In Ethernet frame, the destination and source are MAC addresses of size____.
a. 32
b. 48
c. 64
d. 16
21. One of the following layers organizes and synchronizes the exchange of data between the
application processes.
a. Application layer
b. Session layer
c. Presentation layer
d. Transport layer
22. If the sender is a host and wants to send a packet to another host on another network,
which of the following should be the logical address that must be mapped to a physical
address?
a. The destination IP address in the datagram header
b. The IP address of the router found in the routing table
c. Both aand b
d. None of the above
23. X.25 is an example of which of the following network(s)
a. Circuit switched
b. Packet switched
c. Network switched
d. Both a and b
24. In classless addressing, for example 10.1.1.32/47(subnet mask: 255.255.255.240) defines
the range 10.1.1.32 to 10.1.1.47, then the broadcast address is _____.
a. 10.1.1.32
b. 10.1.1.33
c. 10.1.1.47
d. 10.1.1.46

25. What is the command used to copy multiple files (with an extension .v) from the local
machine to the remote server?

a.
b.
c.
d.

put *.v
mget *.v
mput *.v
get *.v

26. The control access file which specifies the ftp host access and deny parameters is ____.
a. ftp access
b. ftp conversions
c. ftp hosts
d. xferlog
27. ____ is the location of the file which contains the extended group attributes.
a. /etc/group file
b. /etc/security/group file
c. /var/log/groups
d. /var/log/security/group file
28. _____ protocol provides a directory service that lets users query a database of network
resource information.
a. PPP
b. LDAP
c. DNS
d. AMBA
29. Email is transmitted on internet via ______.
a. HTTP
b. FTP
c. SMTP
d. PPP
30. The server handle requests for other domains are done ________.
a. directly
b. by contacting remote DNS server
c. It is not possible
d. indirectly

31. URL means

a. Universal Resolver Link
b. Universal Resource Located
c. Utility Resource Limited
d. Universal Random Link
32. Which of the following is/are the property(s) of DFS?

a.
b.
c.
d.

Sharing
Persistence
Distributed cache
All of the above

33. One of the following modules accesses and allocates disk blocks.
a. Access control module
b. Block module
c. File access module
d. None of the above
34. One of the following gets the file attributes for file name into buffer.
a. count=read(filedes, buffer,n)
b. count=write(filedes, buffer,n)
c. status=stat(name, buffer)
d. status =link(name1,name2)
35. Which of the following is an example of DFS?
a. RAM
b. Web server
c. AFS
d. Sun NFS
36. One of the following modules contains disk I/O and buffering.
a. Block module
b. Access control module
c. Device module
d. None of the above

37. In one of the following transparencies, the naming of file system is controlled by client
mount operations.
a. Mobility transparency
b. Location transparency
c. Scalability transparency
d. Access transparency
38. One of the following file system operationsis used to move read-write pointer to the
offset.
a. lseek()
b. link()

c. unlink()
d. close()
39. One of the following file system operations delivers a UFID for the file.
a. create()
b. open()
c. read()
d. write()
40. Which block in NFS architecture is used to identify local and remote files?
a. Virtual file system
b. NFS server
c. UNIX file system
d. NFS client
41. NFS is a
a.
b.
c.
d.

Finite state file server

Stateless file server
Stateful file server
Can be configured as any, based on application

42. AFS uses one of the following security mechanisms.

a. Kerberos
b. Root squashing
c. Inbuilt security mechanism
d. None of the above
43. AFS advantages over NFS
i. Security
ii. Scalability
iii. Transparency
a. i & iii
b. i & ii
c. ii & iii
d. i, ii & iii
44. Which version of Kerberos uses Data Encryption Standard?
a. Versions 1 & 2
b. Versions 2 & 3
c. Version 4
d. Version 5
45. Choose the correct statement
i). AFS is a worldwide file system.

ii). Vice is apart of workstation and venus is a part of server in NFS.

iii). Vice is apart of workstation and venus is a part of server in AFS.
iv). NFS is a workgroup network file service.
a.
b.
c.
d.

i)&iv)
i), iii)&iv)
ii)&iv)
i) only

46. What is the Size limitation of a string in PERL?

a. 1 byte
b. 1 bit
c. 4 bytes
d. No limit
47. What is the difference between single quotes and double quotes in PERL?
a. Single quotes allow variable expansion whereas double quotes doesnt allow
b. Single quotes doesnt allow variable expansion whereas double quotes does
allow
c. Both allow variable expansion
d. Neither of them allow
48. PERL is created by _______
a. Dennis Ritchie
b. Larry Wall
c. Larry Page & Sergey Brin
d. Guido Van Rossum

49. Commenting in PERL is done using the key word _______

a. //
b. #
c. /* */
d. Any of these
50. What could be the output of the code
my @a = (0, 1, 2);
my $b = @a;
print $b;
a. 0

b. 1
c. 2
d. 3
51. Which Symbol is used for Interpolation in PERL?
a. =~
b. {}
c. ()
d.
52. Given@food=("raj","ram","venki"); What is the output of @food.""; ( Procedural)
a. Rajramvenki
b. Raj ram venki
c. 3
d. @food
53. What is the operator used for a function call?
a. &print_header();
b. &print_header
c. @print_header();
d. Both a&b
54. ______ is the keyword used to load standard functions in PERL.
a. put fname.pl
b. require fname.pl
c. use fname.pl
d. get fname.pl
55. One of the following string matching operatorsis used in PERL scripting?
a. =~s
b. /string/
c. \string\
d. string

56. In PERL, (10.8 % 3.2) is equivalent to ______________.

a. 10.0 % 3.0
b. 10 % 3
c. 3
d. None of the above
57. Which Operators has more priority in PERL Scripting?
a. Unary Operators
b. Assignment Operators

c. Logical Operators
d. ->,++,--,**
58. What is the output of the following
@array = (1,3,sort 4,2);
Print @array;
a. 1342
b. 1234
c. 1324
d. Error
59. What would be the output of the following program?
use strict;
usewarnings;
my $x = 6P;
my $y = 3;
print $x . $y;
a.
b.
c.
d.

6P.3
$x . $y
6P3
Warning/Error

60. What would be the output of the following operation? (Procedural)

($condition ? $a = 2 : $a) = 3;
a. Condition true a=2 else a=3
b. Always a=3
c. Condition true a=3 else a=2
d. Error

61. my @array = ("bob\n", "jill\n", "fred\n");

chomp(@array);
print "@array\n";10
a. Bob
Jill
Fred
b. Bob , jill , fred
c. Bob jillfred
d. None of the above

62. Chop($string) in PERL___________

a. Removes the end-of-line character of the operand and returns the numberof
characters removed (0 or 1)
b. Removes the last character of the operand and returns the removed character
c. Removes the last word of the operand and returns the removed word
d. None of the above
63. Chomp($string) in PERL
a. Removes the end-of-line character of the operand and returns the numberof
characters removed (0 or 1)
b. Removes the last character of the operand and returns the removed character
c. Removes the last word of the operand and returns the removed word.
d. None of the above
64. If $z=perl then What is the output of $c=\l\U$z
a. perl
b. Perl
c. pERL
d. PERL

65. $a = 4;
print $a--;
print --$a;
will print
a. 2,4
b. 2,2
c. 4,2
d. 4,4
66. $result=14;
print The value \ of \$result is $result \\n;
a. The value of 14 is 14
b. The value of $result is $result
c. The value of $result is 14 \n
d. The value of $result is 14
67. @array=(1,2,3,4);
$array[6]=17;
$array[7]=22;
$array[1]=5;
print @array;
a. 1 5 3 4 17 22
b. 1 5 3 4 undefundef 17 22

c. 1 2 3 4 undefundef 17 22
d. None of the above
68. What is the output of the following code snippet when arrays @c and @d are printed?
@a = (1,5,7);
@color=(violet,green,blue);
@c=(0,@a,9);
@d=@e=@color;
a.
b.
c.
d.

0 1 5 7 9 and violet green blue

1 5 7 and violet green blue
0 1 5 7 9 and violet green blue
None of the above

69. What is the output of the following code snippet?

@a= ("One", "Two", "Three");
print "[",@a,"]\n";
print "size = ".@a."\n";
a. [OneTwoThree] and size = 3
b. One Two Three and size = 3
c. OneTwoThree and size = 2
d. None of the above
70. Variable interpolation occurs in ________________.
a. Single quote strings
b. Double quote strings
c. Back slash
d. Braces
71. To avoid the array reference, the methods followed are _______.
a. use {}
b. use concatenation
c. use backslash
d. all of the above
72. Among the following, which of the operators work on top of stack & which work on
bottom of the stack?
a. push ,pop &shift,unshift
b. push,unshift&pop,shift
c. unshift,shift &push,pop
d. None of the above
73. What are the conditions used to clear an array?
a. @list ()

b. undef @list
c. @list=undef
d. both 1&2
74. A reference to a list and a hash is created by enclosing a list in _____ and ______
respectively.
a. [] , []
b. {} , []
c. [] , {}
d. {} , {}
75. If @a=(a,b,c,1,2,3) then print slice=@a[@a[3,4,5]]\n; ( Procedural)
a. bc1
b. abc
c. 123
d. c12
76. If @a=(x,y,z) then what will be the value of print there are , .@a elements \n
a. xyz
b. .xyz
c. 3
d. ,.xyz
77. In Hashes, a hash table is often used to implement ______.
a. Packed array
b. Associative array
c. Unpacked array
d. Fixed array
78. If an array is assigned to a hash, the even index elementsand the odd index elements
correspond to __________. .
a. Value, key
b. Keys, keys
c. Key, value
d. Value, value
79. Hash variables are named beginning with the character.
a. #
b. %
c. $
d. @
80. One of the following operators will delete all the contents in the hash.
a. Remove

b. Delete
c. Undef
d. Any of the above
81. Which of the following is true statement?
a. If $r = \@list then $$r[3] is the element at index 3 of @list
b. $r->[3] is also the element at index 3 of @list
c. $r[3] is the element at index 3 of @r, completely unrelated
d. All the above.
82. Which operator indicates a pattern matching?
a. m
b. pm
c. mp
d. p
83. What does the >> operator indicate in a file?
a. Appending to a file that already exists
b. Opening a file
c. Deleting the context
d. None of the above
84. What does the > operator indicate?
a. Appending to a file
b. Opening a file
c. Deleting context of an existing file.
d. Both b and c
85. Parameters in the fun call are called _______.
a. formal parameters
b. actual parameters
c. functional parameters
d. regional parameters
86. One of the following functions is used to position the file handle cursor at different
positions.
a. Read
b. Seek
c. Head
d. More
87. Which character stores the value which is matched with pattern?
a. $`
b. $

c. $&
d. None of the above
88. Default delimiter in split command is ____________.
a. Single space
b. Tab space
c. ,(coma)
d.
89. Which of the following is used to check whether the pattern is not matched
a. =!/
/
b. =~/
/
c. !~/
/
d. None of the above

90. How do you perform a forward declaration of a subroutine performed?

a. forward sub name;
b. sub name;
c. sub {};
d. sub name {};
91. Which of the following separates the back-end work of downloading, compiling, and
installing modules from the interactive shell used to issue commands?
a. CPAN
b. CPANPLUS
c. ACPAN
d. None of the above
92. The locations where PERL looks for the module are listed in?
a. @NIC
b. @CIN
c. @ INC
d. None of the above
93. The package should be saved with the extension ______________.
a. .pc
b. .pm
c. .pk
d. None of the above
94. The last line of the package should be ________
a. return
b. 1
c. 0

d. None of the above

95. Entries with identical names can co-exist because they live in __________
a. different namespaces
b. same namespaces
c. package
d. None of the above
96. TCL stands for ___________________.
a. Tool Command Language
b. Tool Communication Language
c. Tool for C Language
d. Tool For Compiler Language
97. TCL extension - TK stands for
a. Tester Kit
b. Tool Kit
c. Tool Kernel
d. None of the above
98. TCL uses the following scripting language ______________
a. Mac platform
b. Windows platform
c. Cross platform
d. Linux/unix platform
99. TCL is created by
a. Dennis Ritche
b. James Gosling
c. John Ousterhout
d. Larry Wall
100.

101.

In TCL scripting, everything is treated as _________.

a. Variables
b. Procedures
c. Strings
d. Floating point numbers

Variable interpolation is caused by one of the following.

a. white space
b. \
c. #
d. $

102.

Command interpolation caused by one of the following

a. \
b. $
c. %
d. []

103.

TCL arrays are __________

a.
Strings
b.
Random arrays
c.
Associative arrays
d.
Gate Arrays

104.

Set b\%a
set a 4
expr $b*2
a.
b.
c.
d.

105.

4
6
8
10

The output of TCL program

set x 4 ;
sety x+10;
a.
b.
c.
d.

106.

4
5
x+10
None of the above
Variable interpolation is caused by one of the following.
white space
\
#
$
Command interpolation is caused by one of the following.
a. \
b. $
a.
b.
c.
d.

107.

c. %
d. []
108.
a.
b.
c.
d.
109.

110.

set b\%a
set a 4
expr $b*2
a. 4
b. 6
c. 8
d. 10
Output of tcl program
set x 4 ;
sety x+10;
a. 4
b. 5
c. x+10
d. none

111.

Global variable errorInfo provides ______

a.
b.
c.
d.

Stack trace
Error information
Control over files
Global info

a.
b.
c.
d.

Which of the following Binds a local variable in the selected context?

Upvar
Uplevel
Global
Local

112.

113.

tcl arrays are?

strings
random arrays
Associative arrays
gate Arrays

Which of the following evaluates a script in the selected context?

a. Global
b. Upvar
c. Uplevel

Comment [H2]: This is a repeat question. The

same question is given in question 103. Please
check.

Comment [H3]: This is a repeat question. The

same question is given in question 104. Please
check.

Comment [H4]: This is a repeat question. The

same question is given in question 105. Please
check.

d. Stacktrace

114.

User defined function starts with one of the following keywords.

a. Proc
b. TCL
c. Return
d. Set

115.
a.
b.
c.
d.

Which of the following are line oriented commands?

Set and reset
Gets and puts
Printf and scanf
Seek and read

116.
Figure out the current month and year, date(d) returns a string like: Sun Sep 22
22:26:10 PDT 1996
a. set month [lindex $d 2], set year [lindex $d 6]
b. set month [lindex $d 1], set year [lindex $d 5]
c. set month [lindex @d 2], set year [lindex @d 6]
d. set month [lindex @d 1], set year [lindex @d 5]

a.
b.
c.
d.

What does Command .x config background red do?

Configure .x background as red
Configure window to red
Configure background as red
None of the above

a.
b.
c.
d.

Which of the following are used to draw primitives?

Canvas widget
Hierarchal widget
Temporary widget
None of the above

a.
b.
c.
d.

Which of the following is the widget command to query configuration

env
cget
fget
goto

117.

118.

119.

120.

You can create a main window by _____

a. using config command
b. wm command
c. cget command

d. fget command

121.
a.
b.
c.
d.

TCL_DeleteCommand (interp,"eq") is useful for _________

Object commands
Weather reports
Packages
Parsing

a.
b.
c.
d.

Traces are invoked only when ________

Variable is accessed or modified via the array command
Variable is read or written
Variable is unset
All of the above

a.
b.
c.
d.

We use one of the following to dispose the result in TCL.

Pre-allocated space
Static result
FreeProc
Library procedures

122.

123.

124.

What type of the command is involved in the following code?

set x 2;
set y 3;
expr $x-1;
expr $y-1;
string compare $x $y;
a.
b.
c.
d.

Object-oriented commands
Action-oriented commands
Formatting commands
None of the above

a.
b.
c.
d.

Rearranging items in a Tree cannot be done using _________.

.tree move
.tree insert
.tree detach
.tree delete

a.
b.
c.
d.

TCL commands for normal completion and error are ______ respectively
OK, ERROR
TCL . OK, TCL . ERROR
TCLOK, TCLERROR
TCL_OK, TCL_ERROR

125.

126.

127.

a.
b.
c.
d.

128.

What is the value of b in the following code?

Set a 1
Set b $a
$a
a
1
Random value

What is the value of x below?

Set
Set
Set
Set

a 1
b 3
c 5
xa?b:c

a. 3
b. x
c. b
d. a
129.

Python supports the following set of Data types?

a. int, short int, long int, float
b. int, float, long, complex
c. int, complex, long int, short int
d. int, double, set, float

130.

What would be the output for the following Python Script?

>>>!!!Python!!!*3
a. !!!Python!!!
b. !!!Python!!!*3
c. !!!Python!!!
d. Error

131.

Python Script:
a is 6
a ++
b is 3
a += b
Value of a, b at the end of the script
a. 10,3
b. 9,3
c. 6,3
d. Error

132.

Write the Output for the following program?

input = raw_input ( Enter an Expression ) # 5+4
print input
k = input( Enter an Expression ) # 5+4
print k
What are the values of input &k ?
a. 9,9
b. 5+4,5+4
c. 9,5+4
d. 5+4,9

133.

What would be the output of the following program?

#!usr/bin/python
Print 3.0/2.0
Print 3/2
Print float(1)/float(2)
Print str(9.023456)
Print bool(0000)
Print bool(1111)
a.
b.
c.
d.

1.5, 0, 0.5, 9.023456, 0, 1

0, 0, 0, 9, 0, 1
1.5, 0, 0, 9.023, 0000, 1111
None of the above

134.

For immutable and mutable objects, how does the python script act?
a. Pass by reference,pass by value
b. Call by value, call by reference
c. Pass by value, pass by reference
d. None of the above

135.

Variables assigned at the top of the module implies to be ______

a. Local to that
b. Global variables
c. Noth a and b
d. None of the above

136.

Output for the following operation

>>> 5+5=10 or 1+1=1
a. True
b. False
c. Error
d. None of the above

137.

Which of the following are immutable?

a. Strings
b. Variables
c. Regular expressions
d. All of the above

138.

What is the output for >>>education[-1] ?

a. e
b. n
c. i
d. c

139.

What is the output for the following code?

>>>example = hello world
>>>print %s % example [4:7]
a) hello
b) ew
c) ol
d) lo

140.

Given a string abc = moon , then, what is the output of abc.count(o)?

a) 2
b) 1
c) None of the above
d) 0

141.

Which of the following returns space padded string?

a) S.center (width, fill char)
b) S.join(sequence)
c) S.isspace()
d) S.find(substring [ , start [ , end]])

142.

What is the output of the following code?

a=He found it boring and he left
loc=a.find(boring)
a=a[:loc] + fun
print a
a) He found it fun
b) He found it fun and he left
c) He found it boring
d) None of the above

143.

Which of the following symbol matches the start of a string?

a).
b)^
c)*
d)$

144.

Which of the following makes ^ and $ before and after each line break in a string?
a) re. IGNORECASE
b) re.DOTALL
c) re.MULTILINE
d) None of the above

145. Which of the following contains a tuple containing the (start,end) positions of the
match?
a) group()
b) start()
c) end()
d) span()

146.

What is the output for the given code?

A=[ 1 , 2 ]
B=[ 3 , 4 ]
for (a,b) in zip (A,B):
print a*b
a. 3 8
b. 1 2
c. 3 4
d. 4 6

147.

What would be the output of the following:

>>>len((rose,))
>>>len(rose)

>>>len([0,2,rose])
a. 1,4,3
b. 4,1,3
c. 1,1,3
d. 4,3,1
148.

What would be the output of the following:

>>>a=[0,1,2]
>>>b=[a,3,4]
>>>print b[1][0]
a. 1
b. 3
c. 5
d. Not possible

149.

What would be the output of following:

>>>x=[1,2]
>>>x.append(rose)
>>>print x
a.
b.
c.
d.

150.

[1,2,rose]
[rose,1,2]
[1,2,rose]
None of the above

One of the following is a tuple:

a. (Tony)
b. (Tony,)
c. (Tony,)
d. None of the above