UNIX Operating System Quiz

UNIX was developed in 1969 at Bell Labs by:

• Bill Gates and Steve Jobs

• Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie

• Linus Torvalds and Richard Stallman

• John Backus and Charles Babbage

The core of the UNIX Operating System is the:

• Kernel

• Shell

• File System

• Command

Which of the following is *not* a feature of UNIX?

• Multiuser

• Multitasking

• Single user only

• Portable

The UNIX Kernel handles:

• Memory, Process and File management

• Only user input

• Only networking

• Only screen output

System calls are used by:

• Kernel to access user programs

• User programs to access kernel services

• Hardware to call commands

• Files to store data

UNIX is portable because:

• It is written in C language

• It is written in assembly

• It supports only Intel processors

• It cannot be moved

The feature that allows multiple users to access a system at once is:

• Multiuser

• Multitasking

• Multiprocessing

• Networking

UNIX allows a user to run multiple tasks at the same time — this is called:

• Multitasking

• Multithreading

• Time-sharing

• Parallelism

Which feature of UNIX uses special characters like ‘*’ and ‘?’ to match patterns?

• Pattern Matching

• Scripting

• Regular Processing

• Multitasking

The UNIX Toolkit includes:

• General-purpose and text-processing tools

• Only database tools

• Only graphics utilities

• Only compiler tools