Question Bank

Unit-1
2 Marks
1. What is the basic difference between Unix and Linux Operating system?
2. What is boot block?
3. What is the difference between home directory and working directory?
4. How Linux differs from other operating system like MS Windows?
5. What is super block?
6. What is file command?
7. What is the role of kernel?
8. What is the difference between home directory and working directory?
9. Which are the commands used to create files in Linux?
10. What is i-node table?
11. What is file command?
12. Which are the commands used to create files in Linux?
13. Which are the major types of shells?
14. What is the difference between home directory and working directory?

5 Marks
15. Explain Linux file system in detail.
16. Describe ls and cd commands.
17. Write short note on Linux standard directories.
18. What are the advantages of Linux Operating system?
19. Which are the hardware requirements for Linux installation?
20. Explain features of Linux Operating System.

15 Marks
21. Explain any five file processing commands in Linux with its syntax and suitable examples.
 Unit-II
2 Marks
1. What is meant by redirecting input/output?
2. What is meant by nice value of a process in Linux?
3. What are the different modes of vi editor?
4. What is meant by background processing in Linux?
5. Which command is used to count the total number of words, lines and characters in a file?
6. What are the different modes of vi editor?
7. What are pipes?
8. What is meant by batch command in Linux?
9. What is the usage of nohup command in Linux?
10. What is the use of file and touch command in Linux?
11. What is command line argument? Write command to display total number of command line
arguments in a shell script.
12. Define kill and killall commands.
13. How can you find the product of two numbers using expr command in Linux?

5 Marks
14. List out the usages of find command in locating files and directories.
15. Explain mathematical commands used in Linux.
16. What is Linux redirection? Explain different types of redirection with suitable examples.
17. List out the usages of find command in locating files and directories.
18. How Linux perform process scheduling with at and batch command?
19. What is command line arguments. How will you use command line arguments in a shell script.
20. What are file processing commands in Linux? Explain with suitable examples.
21. What are editors? Explain vi editors.
22. Explain scheduling of a process with cron command.

15 Marks
23. Explain the following Linux concepts: (a) Connecting process using pipes (b) Explain different
mathematical commands.
 UNIT-III
2 Marks
1. Give syntax of case statement.
2. Write commands to display first commandline argument and total number of commandline
arguments in a shell script.
3. What is shell environment?
4. Explain features of BASH shell.
5. What is shell keyword ? Give example.
6. Explain the command :$ find /home/Steve –name “jan”
7. How can you find the product of two numbers using expr command in Linux?

5 Marks
8. Describe the use of conditional statement in shell scripts with suitable example.
9. Explain different types of variables in shell script.
10. What are editors? Explain vi editors.
11. Describe case statement in shell script.
12. What are the different shells available in Linux?

15 Marks
13. What is a shell in Linux? Compare different shells available in Linux.
14. (a) What are the different types of shall variables in Linux? (b) Write short note on shell
keywords.
15. Explain decision making and branching statements with examples.
16. (a) Explain function in shell with suitable example. How will you pass parameters in shell ?
(b) Write a shell script to copy all files with .c extension in the current working directory to a sub
directory.
 UNIT-IV
2 Marks
1. Compare mounting and unmounting of a file system in Linux.
2. Define rpm command in Linux
3. Define group add command in Linux.
4. Define the term super user.
5. Explain the use of chmod command.
6. Define system automation.
7. Distinguish between groupmod –g and groupmod –n command in Linux.

5 Marks
8. Describe the various tools that are used to get system information in Linux.
9. Discuss how a system administrator can manage its user account.
10. Describe how can you create and manage a group?
11. Discuss the various process of system performance monitoring.

15 Marks
12. What are the roles and responsibilities of a system administrator?
13. Explain the common administrative tasks in Linux.
14. (a) Explain file access permission in detail. (b) What is the use of uname and hostname
commands in Linux.
 UNIT-V
2 Marks
1. What is the use of Uniq command.
2. What is samba?
3. What is the difference between head and tail filters?
4. What is the difference between grep and egrep commands?
5. What is FTP?
6. What is the use of sed command?
7. What is DNS?
8. What is a filter?

5 Marks
9. What is Telnet? What all are the advantages and disadvantages of using Telnet?
10. Explain FTP in detail.
11. What is DNS server?
12. What is pr filter? Explain with options.
13. Write short note on squid server.

15 Marks
14. Write a note on Apache server?
15. With example explain different filters available in Linux.
16. Write short note on (a) Appache (b) Samba (c) Telnet
17. Explain different options of grep, egrep and sed filters with various regular expressions.