DOS

1. Which command of MS-DOS is used to copy only files that have been modified on or after the date you specify? XCOPY/D : date

Answer: Option A Which DOS command will format a floppy disk and transfer the system files A. B. C. D. E. SYS C: A: SYS A: FORMAT A: /S FORMAT A: /T None of the above

Answer: Option C While working with MS-DOS, which command is used to restore files that were backed up using the BACKUP command? A. B. C. D. E. COPY DISKCOPY RESTORE STORE None of the above

Answer: Option C

The term TSR is an abbreviation for: A. B. Terminate Stay Ready Testing System Read

C. D. E.

Terminal Still Ready Terminate Stay Resident None of the above

nswer: Option D

Using the _____ switch causes FDISK to display the partition status of your hard disk without executing FDISK. A. B. C. D. E. /show /display /status /part None of the above

swer: Option C 6. While working with MS-DOS, which command is used to undelete a bunch of files with extension DOC that you have just deleted? A. B. C. D. E. UNDELETE UNDELETE *.DOC UNDELETE/ALL UNDELETE/LIST None of the above

wer: Option B In DOS, which of the following keys will bypass the CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files? A. B. F8 F5

C. D. E.

F4 Fl None of the above

Answer: Option B You want to view the contents of autoexec.bat on the screen using the "type" command, but it scrolls by too quickly, what switch do you use to make it pause? A. B. C. D. E. 1. type c:\autoexec.bat /p type c:\autoexec.bat/more type c:\autoexec.batlpause type c:\autoexee.batlmore. None of the above The part of machine level instruction, which tells the central processor what has to be done, is A. B. C. D. E. Operation code Address Locator Flip-Flop None of the above

Answer & Explanation

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Which of the following refers to the associative memory? A. the address of the data is generated by the CPU

B. C. D. E.

the address of the data is supplied by the users there is no need for an address i.e. the data is used as an address the data are accessed sequentially None of the above

Answer & Explanation

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3.

To avoid the race condition, the number of processes that may be simultaneously inside their critical section is A. B. C. D. E. 8 1 16 0 None of the above

Answer & Explanation

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4.

A system program that combines the separately compiled modules of a program into a form suitable for execution A. assembler

B. C. D. E.

linking loader cross compiler load and go None of the above

Answer & Explanation

Answer: Option B Explanation: No answer description available for this question. Let us discuss. View Answer Workspace Report Discuss in Forum

5.

Process is A. B. C. D. E. program in High level language kept on disk contents of main memory a program in execution a job in secondary memory None of the above

Answer & Explanation

Answer: Option C Explanation: 11. The buffers statement is found in what file? A. B. C. D. Config.sys Autoexec.ncf Autoexec.bat Neb.cfg

E.

None of the above

Answer & Explanation

Answer: Option A Explanation: No answer description available for this question. Let us discuss. View Answer Workspace Report Discuss in Forum 12. Which of the following is loaded for CD-ROM support? A. C. VLM.EXE DOSKEY.EXE B. D. CDDEX.EXE MSCDEX.EXE

Answer & Explanation

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13. To find out how much memory is available, you could type______. A. B. C. D. E. EMM MEM CHKDSK MEMMAKER None of the above

Answer & Explanation

Answer: Option B Explanation:

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14. Suppose you had an incurable computer virus and decided to wipe out all the data and partitions on your hard drive and reformat. What is the order in which you must delete the partitions? A. B. C. D. E. Extended, Logical, Primary Primary, Extended, Logical Logical, Extended, Primary Logical, Primary, Extended None of the above

Answer & Explanation

Answer: Option C Explanation: No answer description available for this question. Let us discuss. View Answer Workspace Report Discuss in Forum

15. While working with MS-DOS, which command is used to display the contents of a file and pause the display after each screenful of information? A. B. C. D. E. TYPE filename | MORE CAT filename | MORE CAT filename | pg MORE filename None of the above

Answer & Explanation

Answer: Option A 16. Which DOS command is used to detect, diagnose and repair logical and physical disk errors on both, uncompressed and Double space compressed drive?

A. B. C. D. E.

DEFRAG DBLSPACE SCANDISK MSAV None of the above

Answer & Explanation

Answer: Option C Explanation: No answer description available for this question. Let us discuss. View Answer Workspace Report Discuss in Forum 17. What command would you type to list all of the files in the current directory? A. B. C. D. E. DIR LIST ALL SHOW SHOW ME None of the above

Answer & Explanation

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18. While working with MS-DOS, which command is used to move file from one directory to another? A. RENAME

B. C. D. E.

COPY MOVE CP None of the above

Answer & Explanation

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19. A _____ boot is when DOS is restarted without turning off the computer. A. B. C. D. E. warm reboot shutdown system up None of the above

Answer & Explanation

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20. While using the DIR command, you can use certain switches with it. Which one of the following cannot be used with DIR? A. /P

B. C. D. E.

/W /S /T None of the above

Answer & Explanation

Answer: Option D 21. You suspect a virus has entered your computer. What will not be affected by the virus? A. B. C. D. E. CMOS Boot sector Floppy disks Program files None of the above

Answer & Explanation

Answer: Option A Explanation: No answer description available for this question. Let us discuss. View Answer Workspace Report Discuss in Forum 22. What is a TSR? A. B. C. D. E. test status request terminate and stay resident program take status request token set ready token steady route

Answer & Explanation

Answer: Option B Explanation: No answer description available for this question. Let us discuss. View Answer Workspace Report Discuss in Forum

23. What does MSCDEX.EXE do? A. B. C. D. E. Configures hard drives it's a SCSI driver BIOS setup it's a CD-ROM DOS driver None of the above

Answer & Explanation

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24. Upper Memory blocks are located where? A. B. C. D. E. Conventional Memory Extended Memory Expanded memory Reserved Memory None of the above

Answer & Explanation

Answer: Option D Explanation: No answer description available for this question. Let us discuss. View Answer Workspace Report Discuss in Forum

25. Batch files contain a group of MS-DOS commands that are run in successive order. What filename extension identifies batch files? A. B. C. D. E. COM BAT EXE SYS None of the above

Answer & Explanation

Answer: Option B Explanation: 26. After upgrading your computer to a new DOS version, an older application displays the error message "Incorrect DOS version". What should you do to run this application? A. B. C. D. E. Use the DOS+ command Use the SETVER command Restore the old DOS version Contact the application's vendor support line None of the above

Answer & Explanation

Answer: Option B Explanation:

No answer description available for this question. Let us discuss. View Answer Workspace Report Discuss in Forum 27. When executed from a bootable hard drive, which command will make a formatted floppy disk bootable? A. B. C. D. E. COPY C:\DOS\COMMAND.COM A:\ ATTRIB C:\*.SYS A:\ XCOPY C:\DOS\*.* A:\ SYS C: A: None of the above

Answer & Explanation

Answer: Option D Explanation: No answer description available for this question. Let us discuss. View Answer Workspace Report Discuss in Forum

28. Which of the following commands allows you to make a directory? A. B. C. D. E. MAKE DIR MD DD None of the above

Answer & Explanation

Answer: Option C Explanation: No answer description available for this question. Let us discuss.

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29. While working with MS-DOS, which command is used to specify the colour display, 40 columns and color? A. B. C. D. E. MODE COLOUR MODE/C MODE CO40 MODE CHANGE None of the above

Answer & Explanation

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30. Which DOS command allows you to compress existing disks and to create new compressed volumes? A. B. C. D. E. DEFRAG DBLSPACE SCANDISK MSAV None of the above

Answer & Explanation

Answer: Option B Explanation: No answer description available for this question. Let us discuss. 31. The MODE command of MS-DOS is used to

A. B. C. D. E.

display information about several types of devices installed in your computer provide various types of control over your printers make changes of the current display All of the above None of the above

Answer & Explanation

Answer: Option D Explanation: No answer description available for this question. Let us discuss. View Answer Workspace Report Discuss in Forum 32. Which of the following applies to external DOS commands? A. B. C. D. E. External commands reside in RAM until called External commands are stored on disk separately from COMMAND.COM External commands must always be used with the /e switch External commands can only be executed from a batch file. None of the above

Answer & Explanation

Answer: Option B Explanation: No answer description available for this question. Let us discuss. View Answer Workspace Report Discuss in Forum

33. Which command is used to delete the directory that is empty? A. DEL *.*

B. C. D. E.

RD ERASE MD None of the above

Answer & Explanation

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34. Which command will be used to display file and directory names only, without size, date, and time information? A. B. C. D. E. DIR/W DIR A: DIR/B DIR/S None of the above

Answer & Explanation

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35. To organize files on a disk, MS-DOS separates them into areas called _____ A. directories

B. C. D. E.

buckets areas area directories None of the above

Answer & Explanation

Answer: Option A Explanation: 36. The _____ command allows you to modify the default prompt to provide other information A. B. C. D. E. prompt windows cursor click None of the above

Answer & Explanation

Answer: Option A Explanation: No answer description available for this question. Let us discuss. View Answer Workspace Report Discuss in Forum 37. What DOS program can you run to see which serial ports are detected? A. C. E. comdiag command.com serial.chk B. D. MSD SDET

Answer & Explanation

Answer: Option B

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38. After doing a low-level format, what would be the next step in configuring the hard drive in a system? A. B. C. D. E. Format DOS partition Install operating system Configure DMA channel and back up interrupt Partition hard disk None of the above

Answer & Explanation

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39. Which of the following commands will take you directly to the root directory no matter what subdirectory you are currently in? A. B. C. D. E. CD \root CD\ CD\.. CD.. None of the above

Answer & Explanation

Answer: Option B

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40. After trying to unload a TSR, you get an error message saying that other TSRs were loaded after the one you tried to remove. Which of the following commands could you use to see the current load order? A. B. C. D. E. MEM /P MEMMAKER MEM /C SYS: None of the above

Answer & Explanation

Answer: Option C Which command is used to send the contents of file named REPORT/TXT to the standard printing device? A. B. C. D. E. TYPE REPORT.TXT TO PRINTER TYPE REPORT.TXT > PRN TYPE REPORT.TXT | PRN TYPE REPORT.TXT | PRINTER None of the above

Answer & Explanation

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A system has two IDE hard drives that are each divided into primary and extended partitions,

which drive letter is assigned to the primary partition of the second drive? A. B. C. D. E. C D E F None of the above

Answer & Explanation

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3.

HIMEM.SYS controls: A. B. C. D. E. DOS=HIGH RMDRIVE.SYS SMARTDRV.SYS Extended Memory None of the above

Answer & Explanation

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4.

Where would you load the mouse driver mouse.sys?

A. C. E.

config.sys win.ini msdos.sys

B. D.

autoexec.bat io.sys

Answer & Explanation

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5.

Filename extensions help identify certain files. What filename extension identifies command files? A. B. C. D. E. COM BAT EXE SYS None of the above

Answer & Explanation

Answer: Option A While working with MS-DOS, which command is used to specify the size of the disk to format. A. B. C. D. E. FORMAT/F : size FORMAT/N : sector FORMAT/T : tracks FORMAT/V None of the above

Answer & Explanation

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What command is used to reset a MODEM when using the "AT Command Set"? A. B. C. D. E. ATR ATZ DTR DCE None of the above

Answer & Explanation

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8.

While working with MS-DOS, which command is used to force DOS to recheck all clusters when reformatting a disk? A. B. C. D. E. FORMAT/B FORMAT/S FORMAT/8 FORMAT/C None of the above

Answer & Explanation

Answer: Option D Explanation: No answer description available for this question. Let us discuss. View Answer Workspace Report Discuss in Forum

9.

The _____ switch instructs DOS to display the directory list in a wide format. A. B. C. D. E. /W /O /P /B None of the above

Answer & Explanation

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10. Which of the following applies to Internal DOS commands? A. B. C. D. E. Internal commands can be run whenever the DOS prompt is displayed Internal commands are reserved for DOS-level programming Internal commands can only be executed from a batch file Internal commands are stored on disk separately from COMMAND.COM None of the above

Answer & Explanation

Answer: Option A Explanation: Match the device driver HIMEM.SYS to its operation A. B. C. D. E. Supports (ANSI) terminal emulation Manages the use of extended memory Uses expanded memory on an 80386 processor Supports code page switching None of the above

Answer & Explanation

Answer: Option B Explanation: No answer description available for this question. Let us discuss. View Answer Workspace Report Discuss in Forum 12. What command can you add to the AUTOEXEC.BAT file so that your computer temporarily stops in the execution of the file before continuing? A. B. C. D. E. Pause Halt Wait x.xx seconds Wait until Files="x" None of the above

Answer & Explanation

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13. While working with MS-DOS, which command is used to sort the file in ascending order? A. B. C. D. E. SORT filename SORT < filename SORT > filename SORT | filename None of the above

Answer & Explanation

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14. What is the order in which Command.Com searches for programs to execute? A. B. C. D. E. EXE, COM, BAT EXE, BAT, COM COM, EXE, BAT BAT, COM, EXE None of the above

Answer & Explanation

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15. While working with MS-DOS, which command will you use to transfer a specific file from one disk to another? A. B. C. D. E. COPY DISKCOPY TIME RENAME None of the above

Answer & Explanation

Answer: Option A Explanation: Which DOS command is used to remove and scan memory and disk from viruses? A. B. C. D. E. MSAV DEFRAG SCANDISK VSAFE None of the above

Answer & Explanation

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To conserve battery power on your laptop computer. What DOS v6.x command should you use? A. B. Powermon.exe Power.exe

C. D. E.

Idel.com Pw.sys None of the above

Answer & Explanation

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3.

The Fdisk command in DOS _____ . A. B. C. D. E. Partitions the hard drive for use Fixes erroneous hard drive Formats data sectors on a hard drive Checks hard drive for lost clusters None of the above

Answer & Explanation

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4.

How would you allow device drivers and TSR's to be loaded into Upper Memory Blocks? A. B. C. DOS=High Devicehigh= Loadhigh=

D. E.

DOS=UMB None of the above

Answer & Explanation

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5.

While working with MS-DOS, which command is used to restore only those files modified since the last backup, from the drive A to the currently logged drive or directory? A. B. C. D. E. RESTORE A: *.*/S RESTORE A: *.*/M RESTORE A: *.*/N RESTORE A: *.*/L None of the above

Answer & Explanation

Answer: Option B Which DOS command will configure a serial printing port? A. B. C. D. E. Parallel serial Mode LPT1=C0M1 Direct LPTl=COMl Mode printer ()-serial () None of the above

Answer & Explanation

Answer: Option B

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Which command below will instruct DOS to do a "quick format". A. B. C. D. E. FORMAT A: /QUICK FORMAT A: /Q FORMAT A: /QU FORMAT A: /QF None of the above

Answer & Explanation

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8.

While working with MS-DOS, which command is used to display a list of deleted files that DOS can undelete? A. B. C. D. E. UNDELETE *.* UNDELETE/ALL UNDELETE/LIST UNDELETE None of the above

Answer & Explanation

Answer: Option C Explanation:

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9.

Which file executes commands in DOS? A. B. C. D. E. MS-DOS.SYS CONFIG.SYS COMMAND.COM SYSTEM.INI None of the above

Answer & Explanation

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10. What switch would you use to view Smartdrive statistics? A. B. C. D. E. /x /e: /s /o:n None of the above

Answer & Explanation

Answer: Option C Explanation: 11. Each time you turn the power switch on, which control files will the computer check? A. COMMAND.COM, IO.SYS

B. C. D. E.

COMMAND.COM, DATE.COM, TIME.COM C0MMAND.COM, IO.SYS, MSDOS.SYS CHKDSK.EXE None of the above

Answer & Explanation

Answer: Option C Explanation: No answer description available for this question. Let us discuss. View Answer Workspace Report Discuss in Forum 12. While working with MS-DOS, which command is used to combine FILE1 plus FILE2 into new file named FILE3? A. B. C. D. E. COPY FILE3 FILE1+FILE2 COPY FILE1+FILE2 FILE3 COPY FILE1+FILE2+FILE3 COPY FILE2 FILE1+FILE3 None of the above

Answer & Explanation

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13. Which two of the following DOS commands are used to display or set the date and time of your computer's infernal clock? A. VER

B. C. D. E.

HOUR DATE DAY None of the above

Answer & Explanation

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14. When MS-DOS formats a disk, it automatically creates the main directory on your disk, which is called the _____ directory. A. C. main area B. D. root border

Answer & Explanation

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15. Which command will prevent subsequent changes to the file CBT.EXE? A. B. C. D. RENAME + r CBT.EXE ATTRIB + r CBT.EXE COPY + r CBT.EXE MODE + r CBT.EXE

E.

None of the above

Answer & Explanation

Answer: Option B Which command will be used to display a column file compression ratio for each file of Double spaced disk? A. B. C. D. E. DIR/W DIR/S DIR/B DIR /C (/C switch introduced in DOS version 6.00) None of the above

Answer & Explanation

Answer: Option D Explanation: No answer description available for this question. Let us discuss. View Answer Workspace Report Discuss in Forum 17. The COPY command of MS-DOS, is used to: A. B. C. D. E. copying files to transfer from one PC to another copying files for safe keeping or for record purpose copying files from the hard disk to floppy disks All of the above None of the above

Answer & Explanation

Answer: Option D Explanation:

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18. While working with MS-DOS, which command is used to copy all files from the currently logged drive and directory with the extension .TXT to the drive A? A. B. C. D. E. COPY A: *.TXT COPY *.TXT A: COPY *.TXT C: COPY *.TXT ALL.TXT None of the above

Answer & Explanation

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19. Which command of DOS is used to compare two floppy disks? A. B. C. D. E. DISKCOPY DISKCOMP DISKCOPY A: B/V FORMAT A: B: None of the above

Answer & Explanation

Answer: Option B Explanation:

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20. Which command of DOS is used to sort the file in reverse order? A. B. C. D. E. SORT > filename SORT < filename SORT/R < filename SORT/V < filename None of the above

Answer & Explanation

Answer: Option C Answer Workspace Report Discuss in Forum 24. Which command is used to display the subdirectory structure of the currently logged drive and pause the screen display after each screenful of information? A. B. C. D. E. TREE DELTREE/F DIR | MORE TREE | MORE None of the above

Answer & Explanation

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25. If you do not know the current time, which command will you use to display the time?

A. B. C. D. E.

COPY VER TIME FORMAT None of the above

Answer & Explanation

Answer: Option C Explanation: