DOS MCQ Question and Answer

Question - 1

While working with MS-DOS, which command is used to display the contents of a file and pause the display after each screenful of information?

TYPE filename | MORE
CAT filename | MORE<
CAT filename | pg
MORE filename

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Question - 2

Match the device driver HIMEM.SYS to its operation

Supports (ANSI) terminal emulation
Manages the use of extended memory
Uses expanded memory on an 80386 processor
Supports code page switching

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Question - 3

Match the device driver HIMEM.SYS to its operation

Supports (ANSI) terminal emulation
Manages the use of extended memory
Uses expanded memory on an 80386 processor
Supports code page switching

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Question - 4

If you need to duplicate the entire disk, which command will you use?

Copy
Diskcopy
Chkdsk
Format

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Question - 5

Which of the following extensions suggest that the file is a backup copy

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Question - 6

Which command lists the contents of current directory of a disk

COPY
Dir
Tree
List

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Question - 7

Which command creates a directory or subdirectory?

Dir
Mkdir
Md
Both B & C

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Question - 8

Which command displays current directory name or change from one to another?

Chdir
CKdir
Mkdir
Both A & B

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Question - 9

Which command is used to delete the directory that is empty?

Del
RD
Erase
MD

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Question - 10

An entire path name, consisting of several sub-directory names can contain upto __ character

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Question - 11

Maximum length of DOS command using any optional parameter is ___ characters

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Question - 12

In which version of DOS. CHKDSK command has been changed to SCANDISK?

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Question - 13

CHKDSK command is used to ___?

Analyze the hard disk error
Diagnose the hard disk size
Report the status of files on disk
Both A & C

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Question - 14

To copy the hidden system files of DOS to another disk you can use the command

Copy
Ren
Sys
Diskcopy

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Question - 15

Disk copy command in DOS is used to

Copy a file
Copy contents of one floppy disk to another
Copy contents of CD-ROM to another
All of the above

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Question - 16

SYS command is used to

Copy DOS system files to new disk
Copy DOS configuration files to a new disk
Update the DOS system files
None of above

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Question - 17

While working with MS-DOS which key is used to get the previous command used?

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Question - 18

FAT stands for ___?

File Allocation Table
File Activity Table
File Accommodation Table
File Access Type

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Question - 19

xcopy command can copy

Individual files or group of files
Directories including subdirectories
To diskette of a different capacity
All the above

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Question - 20

Full form of MS-DOS is

Micro System Disk Operating System
Micro Simple Disk Operating System
Micro Soft Disk Operating System
Micro Sort Disk Operating System

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