Practice Pakistan's most useful MCQs for competitive exams

What does FSF stand for ?

• (A)  Free Software File
• (B)  File Server First
• (C)  First Serve First
• (D)  Free Software Foundation

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What command is used to sort the lines of data in a file in alphabetical order ?

• (A)  sort – r
• (B)  st
• (C)  sh
• (D)  sort

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The command which transcribes the standard input to the standard output and also makes a copy of the same in a file is _______________?

• (A)  tee
• (B)  tr
• (C)  sort
• (D)  grep

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Which command sends the word count of the file infile to the newfile_______________?

• (A)  wc infile >newfile
• (B)  wc newfile
• (C)  wc infile – newfile
• (D)  wc infile | newfile

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Which of the following NIS clients returns the name of the NIS server used by the NIS client ?

• (A)  ypwhich
• (B)  ypbind
• (C)  ypcat
• (D)  yppoll

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What command is used to terminate a process ?

• (A)  kill
• (B)  cancel
• (C)  haltsys
• (D)  shutdown

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What command is used with vi editor to move forward to the end of a word ?

• (A)  c
• (B)  d
• (C)  b
• (D)  e

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Which file is used to configure which filesystems are mounted ?

• (A)  /etc/mount.sys
• (B)  /etc/filesys
• (C)  /etc/sysconfig
• (D)  /etc/fstab

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Which command can force all buffers to disk ?

• (A)  save
• (B)  sync
• (C)  edbuff
• (D)  flush

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What sign is used to back up over typing errors in vi ?

• (A)  !
• (B)  $
• (C)  #
• (D)  @

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