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1. To increase the response time and throughput, the kernel minimizes the frequency of disk access by keeping a pool of internal data buffer called




2. At start of process execution, STDOUT & STDERR




3. wtmp and utmp files contain:




4. Which is the core of the operating system?




5. ILP32 stands for




6. Single Unix Specification Version 2 provides enhanced support for




7. Which among the following interacts directly with system hardware?




8. Applications communicate with kernel by using:




9. Solaris is the name of a flavor of UNIX from




10. Which of the following is NOT a UNIX variant ?




11. The system calls in UNIX is written using which language




12. Which of the following enables multi-tasking in UNIX?




13. Which of the following is considered as the super daemon in Unix?




14. Unix is which kind of Operating System?




15. SVR4 stands for?




16. Lp0 device file is used to access:




17. Syntax of any Unix command is:




18. SVR4 was developed by




19. Which of these is not a Unix Flavor?




20. Which of the following statement is FALSE ?




21. Which of the following UNIX flavor is from IBM?




22. x86-32 uses which programming model?




23. Which among the following is used to write small programs to control Unix functionalities?




24. What control character signals the end of the input file?




25. How do you get help about the command cp?




26. The dmesg command




27. The command mknod myfifo b 4 16




28. Which command is used to set terminal IO characteristic?




29. Which command is used to record a user login session in a file




30. Which command is used to display the operating system name




31. Which command is used to display the unix version




32. Which command is used to print a file




33. Using which command you find resource limits to the session?




34. Which option of ls command used to view file inode number




35. Find / -name * will




36. Which command is used to display the octal value of the text




37. Which command is used to view compressed text file contents




38. Which command changes a files group owner




39. Which command is used to extract intermediate result in a pipeline




40. Which command is used to extract a column from a text file




41. Which command is used to display disk consumption of a specific directory




42. Which command is used to perform backup in unix?




43. Which command creates an empty file if file does not exist?




44. Which option of rm command is used to remove a directory with all its subdirectories




45. Which command is used to identify file type?




46. Command used to determine the path of an executable file is




47. Command used to count number of character in a file is




48. Which of these commands could you use to show one page of output at a time?




49. Which commands will give you information about how much disk space each file in the current directory uses?




50. Which of the following command output contains userid?