Unix / Linux Online Quiz

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Questions and Answers

Q 1 - Choose the odd one out.

Answer : D

Explanation

Kernel is the core part of the OS and is odd one the rest are popular shells.

Q 2 - We can kill any background executing process.

Answer : B

Explanation

False. We can kill only the processes for which we are owner.

Q 3 - Which command can be used to delete a file?

Answer : C

Explanation

rm, can delete a file as well as a directory.

Q 4 - Option to mention field separator for the command ‘cut’ is __

Answer : C

Explanation

–d means as delimiter, acts as field separator.

Q 5 - Per user configuration setting are found in the following file of user’s home directory.

Answer : B

Explanation

Aliases, imported environment variables, etc are part of the configuration settings.

Q 6 - Which command can be used to show OS name?

Answer : B

Explanation

‘uname’ can display much more technical information about your hardware and OS apart from name of the OS.

Q 7 - How can you execute ‘date’ command staying within vi editor?

D - Noe of the above

Answer : B

Explanation

Staying in command mode of vi, hit : and any command following exclamation (!).

Q 8 - Which command from the following can create a file if doesn’t exist?

Answer : D

Explanation

touch can update access and modification time apart from creating an empty file.

Q 9 - Which command can introduce clock delay?

Answer : A

Explanation

Q 10 - Out of the following which can place in home directory?

C - Both (a) and (b)

Answer : C

Explanation

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