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This set of Fedora Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Fedora Set 3

Q1 | Which command changes a file’s group owner
  • cgrp
  • chgrp
  • change
  • group
Q2 | Which command is used to extract intermediate result in a pipeline
  • tee
  • extract
  • exec
  • none of the above
Q3 | Which command is used to extract a column from a text file
  • paste
  • get
  • cut
  • tar
Q4 | Which command is used to display disk consumption of a specific directory
  • du
  • ds
  • dd
  • dds
Q5 | Which command is used to perform backup in unix?
  • backup
  • cpio
  • zip
  • gzip
Q6 | Which command creates an empty file if file does not exist?
  • cat
  • touch
  • ed
  • read
Q7 | Which option of rm command is used to remove a directory with all its subdirectories
  • –b
  • –o
  • –p
  • –r
Q8 | Write the command to display the current date in the form dd/mm/yyyy.
  • date +%d/%m/%y
  • date +”%d/%m/%y”
  • date +/%d/%m/20%y
  • date +”/%d/%m/20%y”
Q9 | Which command will delete all the blank lines in file old.txt?
  • sed ‘/d’ old.txt
  • sed ‘/^/d’ old.txt
  • sed ‘/^$/d’ old.txt
  • sed ‘/^*/d’ old.txt
Q10 | The command “sed -n ‘/mcqmate/p’ old.txt” will
  • print the lines containing the word ‘mcqmate’ in file old.txt
  • delete the lines containing the word ‘mcqmate’ in file old.txt
  • will generate an error message
  • none of the mentioned
Q11 | Which option is used by sed to specify that the following string is an instruction or set of instructions?
  • -n
  • -e
  • -f
  • -i
Q12 | When we install a new package in linux system, then
  • all the files of the packages are installed in a single directory
  • different files are installed at different locations of the file system
  • package works just after extraction, installation is not required
  • none of the mentioned
Q13 | Host specific configuration files are installed in
  • /etc directory
  • /lib directory
  • /root directory
  • /bin directory
Q14 | The directory /media is the
  • mount point for removable media
  • mount point for filesystem
  • both (a) and (b)
  • none of the mentioned
Q15 | What is /bin/sh ?
  • bourne shell
  • hard or symbolic link to the real shell command
  • bash shell
  • both (b) and (c)
Q16 | The /boot directory stores the data that is used
  • before the kernel begins executing user mode programs
  • after the kernel begins executing user mode programs
  • before the bootloader is loaded in the ram
  • none of the mentioned
Q17 | Which one of the directory does not contain binary files?
  • /bin
  • /sbin
  • /etc
  • none of the mentioned
Q18 | Kernel modules are present in
  • /lib directory
  • /root directory
  • /boot directory
  • none of the mentioned
Q19 | The directory /opt is reserved for
  • installation of add-on application software packages
  • optional booting files
  • optional user specific files
  • none of the mentioned
Q20 | The directory /srv contains
  • site-specific data which is served by the system
  • all the system files
  • all the service files provided by the specific user
  • none of the mentioned
Q21 | Any file or directory present in the ______ directory may not be reserved between the invocation of the program.
  • /var
  • /tmp
  • /etc
  • all of the mentioned
Q22 | What is a context switch?
  • kernel switches from executing one process to another.
  • process switches from kernel mode to user mode.
  • process switches from user mode to kernel mode.
  • none of the above
Q23 | Pid of init process
  • 0
  • 1
  • 32767
  • none of the above
Q24 | What is the default maximum number of processes that can exist in Linux?
  • 32768
  • 1024
  • 4096
  • unlimited
Q25 | How do you get parent process identification number?
  • waitpid
  • getpid()
  • getppid()
  • parentid()