Top 550+ Solved Operating System Architecture MCQ Questions Answer
Q. Which command is used to display the device name of the terminal you are using?
a. who
b. stty
c. tty
d. ls
Q. Which command allows you to view your file 24 lines at a time ?
a. more
b. cat
c. none of the above
d. pg
Q. The tar command in UNIX
a. used to create compressed archives of directories and file
b. used to extract directories and files from an archives
c. both a and b
d. none of the abov
Q. Which of the following commands is used to count the total number of lines,words and characters contained in a file?
a. count p
b. wc
c. wcount
d. count w
Q. Mounting a file system results in the loading of
a. boot block
b. super block
c. i-node table
d. all of thes
Q. When a process makes a system call ,its mode changes from
a. user to kernel
b. kernel to user
c. restricted to unrestricted
d. unrestricted to restricted
Q. Which of the following files contains information related to password aging?
a. hadow
b. profile
c. password
d. all of these
Q. Which of the following are character special files?
a. terminal
b. printer
c. modem
d. tape drive
Q. To allow only one user to work with a particular file at a particular time ,one has to
a. semaphore
b. critical region
c. locking
d. dedicated mode
Q. A popular boot loader used by most Linux distributions to boot Linux is called
a. fifo
b. lilo
c. lifo
d. none
Q. LILO can also be used to boot other operating systems as well such as ……..
a. ms-dos
b. windows 98
c. windows nt
d. all of these