Unix Architecture and General Purpose Utilities: The Kernel, the Shell, and User Commands and Applications

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In which language UNIX is written?

JAVA Python C++ C

Which of the following is not a part of all the versions of UNIX?

Kernel and Shell Commands and utilities Graphical user interface System Calls

Which of the following is not true about UNIX?

Many people can use a UNIX based computer at the same time; hence UNIX is called as a multiuser system A user can run multiple programs at the same time; hence UNIX is called a multitasking environment UNIX was not written in ‘C’ language Linux is also known as a version of UNIX

Shell is a command interpreter used for interacting with a UNIX system.

True False

Two UNIX systems may or may not use the same set of system calls.

True False

What is the windowing system of UNIX known as?

X Window system LINUX Red Hat DOS

What is UNIX?

An operating system

A text editor

Programming language

Software program

Which of the following is not a feature of UNIX?

Multitasking

Multiuser

Portability

Easy to use

Which part of the UNIX operating system interacts with the hardware?

Kernel

Shell

Vi editor

Application program

What is a superuser?

System manager

Normal user

Administrator

A user with special rights

The field separator in cut command is specified with?

-a option

-d option

-r option

-x option

None of these

Which column contains all details of the permissions of a file when you issue the ls -l command?

Second

Fourth

Third

First

None of these

Which of the following commands is used to display your working directory?

dir

prompt $p$g

pwd

path

None of the above

The command used to compare the files is known as?

comp

cmp

ccp

None of the above

Which command is used to terminate a process?

Shutdown

Haltsys

Cancel

Kill

None of the above

Quiz/Test Summary

Title: Unix Architecture and General Purpose Utilities: The Kernel, the Shell, and User Commands and Applications

Questions: 15

Contributed by:

james Thu, Mar 31, 2022 07:30 AM UTC

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