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  • What is a shell?


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  • A shell is an interactive user interface to an operating system services that allows an user to enter commands as character strings or through a graphical user interface The shell converts them to system calls to the OS or forks off a process to execute the command System call results and other information from the OS are presented to the user through an interactive interface Commonly used shells are sh,csh,ks etc 


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    • 1. What is a drawback of MVT?
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    • 2. What is fragmentation? Different types of fragmentation?
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    • 3. What is logical and physical addresses space?
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    • 4. While running DOS on a PC, which command would be used to duplicate the entire diskette?
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    • 5. What are the benefits of multithreaded programming?
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    • 6. getppid() system call is used to bias the existing priority of a process

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    • A. TRUE
    • B. FALSE
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    • 7. What is a zombie?
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    • 8. The PS command prints the process status for only some of the running processes.

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    • A. TRUE
    • B. FALSE
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    • 9. Which among the following are the components of windows registry?

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    • A. Keys
    • B. SubKeys
    • C. Values
    • D. All the above
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    • 10. Which command displays the present workig directory in UNIX?

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    • A. $who
    • B. $pwd
    • C. $who are you
    • D. None
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