July, 2013 A8-R4: BASICS OF OS, UNIX AND SHELL PROGRAMMING

July, 2013

A8-R4: BASICS OF OS, UNIX AND SHELL PROGRAMMING

PART ONE

(Answer all the questions)

1. Each question below gives a multiple choice of answers. Choose the most appropriate one and enter in the “OMR” answer sheet supplied with the question paper, following instructions therein. (1x10)

1.1 Which Linux command is used to assign privileges over a particular file to a designated user?
A) chroot
B) chown
C) assign
D) chgrp
1.2 According to the Linux filesystem hierarchy standard, which of the following directories would be
an appropriate location for a user to install a shared application to?
A) /sbin
B) /dev/user/bin
C) /usr/local/bin
D) /etc/bin

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71. Which of the following is characteristic of an MIS ?
(1) Provides guidance in identifying problems, finding and evaluating alternative
solutions, and selecting or comparing alternatives.
(2) Draws on diverse yet predictable data resources to aggregate and summarize data.
(3) High volume, data capture focus.
(4) Has as its goal the efficiency of data movement and processing and interfacing
different TPS.


72. How does randomized hill-climbing choose the next move each time ?
(1) It generates a random move from the moveset, and accepts this move.
(2) It generates a random move from the whole state space, and accepts this move.
(3) It generates a random move from the moveset, and accepts this move only if this
move improves the evaluation function.
(4) It generates a random move from the whole state space, and accepts this move only
if this move improves the evaluation function.

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61. The region of feasible solution of a linear programming problem has a _____ property in
geometry, provided the feasible solution of the problem exists.
(1) concavity
 (2) convexity
(3) quadratic
 (4) polyhedron

62. Consider the following statements :
(a) Revised simplex method requires lesser computations than the simplex method.
(b) Revised simplex method automatically generates the inverse of the current basis
matrix.
(c) Less number of entries are needed in each table of revised simplex method than
usual simplex method.
Which of these statements are correct ?
(1) (a) and (b) only
 (2) (a) and (c) only
(3) (b) and (c) only
(4) (a), (b) and (c)

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51. Which of the following information about the UNIX file system is not correct ?
(1) Super block contains the number of i-nodes, the number of disk blocks, and the start
of the list of free disk blocks.
(2) An i-node contains accounting information as well as enough information to locate
all the disk blocks that holds the file’s data.
(3) Each i-node is 256-bytes long.
(4) All the files and directories are stored in data blocks.

Answer C
Explanation : 

The default bytes per inode is approximately 16384. If you're running out of inodes, you might try for

example:mkfs.ext4 -i 8192 /dev/mapper/main-var2

52. Which of the following option with reference to UNIX operating system is not correct ?
(1) INT signal is sent by the terminal driver when one types <Control-C> and it is a
request to terminate the current operation.
(2) TERM is a request to terminate execution completely. The receiving process will
clean up its state and exit.
(3) QUIT is similar to TERM, except that it defaults to producing a core dump if not
caught.
(4) KILL is a blockable signal.

Answer D
Explanation :