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OS & SP Recall Quiz

1) An Operating System is
- facilitator
- application
- text Editor
- government

2) Which command is used to know the current working directory?


- pwd
- cwd
- ls
- cd

3) Which command is used to rename a file?


- mv
- rename
- cp
- rnm

4) Which command is used to copy a file?


- cmp
- cpy
- cp
- copy

5) Which command helps to know about the details of a command?


- man
- date
- cut
- help

6) How do you redirect the error messages to a file error.txt?


- > error.txt
- < error.txt
- 2> error.txt
- >> error.txt

7) Which of the following metacharacter represents any character (except newline)


- .
- *
- ?
- +
8) In vi command mode, what is the command to copy 5 lines?
- 5copy
- 5yy
- 5cpy
- 5cp

9) _____ helps output of one process become input of other (most effective way).
- >
- <
- >>
- |

10) Which is the best way to search for data in a text file?
- Search
- Find
- Look
- Grep

11) Which is the first line in a shell script?


- #!/bin/bash
- #Hello World
- #!/bash
- #!/bin

12) In shell script, which symbol is used to denote a comment?


- /* */
- //
- #
- %

13) Shell math can be performed with


- Expr
- [ ]
- a and b
- math
14) To execute a script file FILE1, how do you set the permissions?
- Chmod +rw FILE1
- Chmod +w FILE1
- Chmod +r FILE1
- Chmod +x FILE1

15) What is the output for the following code snippet?


val=15
$ echo “The cost of the item is val”

- The cost of the item is 15


- The cost of the item is $val
- The cost of the item is val
- The cost of the item is $15

16) Which special variable holds the exit status of the last executed command?
- $?
- $#
- $!
- #!

17) In an if conditional statement how do you check the condition?


- Test command can be used
- [ condition ]
- a or b
- expr

18) how do you compare numerical values in a if statement?


- If test $n1 eq $n2
- If [ $n1 eq $n2 ]
- If test $n1 = $n2
- a or b

19) Which environment variable helps in identifying field separators?


- IFS
- PATH
- HOME
- PS
20) What are looping statement?
- While
- For
- Until
- All the above

21) What is the unique identification for every file in a hard disk?
- file descriptor
- inode number
- file pointer
- file identifier

22) Which is the flag for opening a file in Read-Write mode?


- O_READWRITE
- O_RDWRONLY
- "rw"
- O_RDWR

23) The stages of instruction pipelining are


- Fetch, decode, execute, memory read, write back
- Fetch, execute, decode, write back, memory read
- Decode, fetch, execute, memory read, write back
- Memory read, decode, execute, fetch, write back

24) What is NOT true about interrupts?


- Interrupts are caused by hardware
- Interrupt handler is executed
- Processor execution mode switches to protected/kernel mode
- Interrupts result in always aborting the application

25) What would the following code snippet do?


creat(“sample”,0555);
- create a file called as sample with r-xr-xr-x permission
- create and open a file called as sample for reading only
- change the mode of the file called as sample to r-xr-xr-x
- create and open a file called as sample for reading & writing
26) A system call is NOT
- A part of processor instruction set architecture
- Enforces the processor to switch from user mode to kernel mode
- The interface for the services of the OS
- An application programming interface(API)

27) Which of the following is NOT a file management related system call
- read()
- Write()
- fork()
- close()

28) Which of the signals cannot be handled ?


- SIGINT
- SIGSTOP
- SIGTERM
- SIGCHLD

29) Which system call is used for waiting for a particular process?
- wait()
- hold()
- waitpid()
- stall()

30) What is shared and is common between parent & child?


- data
- open file descriptors
- stack
- all of the options

31) How is fifo different from pipes, with the context of IPC
- fifo has a name
- all the options are true
- fifo can be used for unrelated processes
- fifo can be created using commands too
32) Threads do not have the overhead of:
- all the options seem true
- having PID, PPID
- managing IPCS
- managing user & group IDs

33) The process of saving the state of one process/thread and restoring the state of another for
execution is called
- Loading
- Context switching
- Dispatching
- Linking

34) If multi processes are reading from the same fifo sequentially, then:
- data will be shared
- all the data will be stored by the latest process
- fifo will not allow multi processes sequentially
- data once read will be deleted, and the new process only gets remaining data

35) File descriptors are _________ between threads of a process


- Private
- shared
- partially shared
- restricted

36) An IPC mechanism provides at least two operations.


- Write and delete a message
- Delete and receive a message
- Send and delete a message
- Receive and send a message

37) What are the models of IPC?


- Shared memory model
- Message passing
- Both A and B
- None
38) Which IPC mechanism is suitable for processes with parent-child relationship?
- FIFO
- Pipe
- Shared memory
- Message queue

39) Which IPC takes care of synchronization?


- Message Queue
- Shared Memory
- Pipe
- FIFO

40) POSIX stands for


- Portable Operating System Interaction
- Portable Operating System Interface
- Preemptive Operating System Interface
- Preemptive Operating Sleep Interface

41) All the static data is stored in


- Stack
- Heap
- data segment
- text segment

42) Which of the following command is used for remote connection:


- Ssh
- Send
- Ipcs
- write

43) The address generated by the CPU is


- Physical address
- Logical address
- Virtual address
- Logical or Virtual address
44) The command used for checking connectivity and connection speed is
- Poke
- Test
- Check
- ping

45) The address generated by the MMU is


- Physical address
- Logical address
- Virtual address
- None of the above

46) Version control systems support tracking which kind of files?


- Text files, Word Documents
- Source code files
- Audio files, Images
- All of the options

47) GIT is a
- Centralized version control system
- Distributed version control system
- Integrated Development Environment
- Dubugging system

48) “Git init” command is used to ______________


- To start git
- To initialize git
- To create or initialize a repository
- To initialize the project

49) Where is the project folder stored in git?


- .git folder
- .profile folder
- .repository folder
- .stage folder

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