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N. G. PATEL POLYTECHNIC
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT
QUESTION BANK
Course Name (With Code): Linux Operating System (4331602)
Semester / Year: 2nd/3rd
Sr. No. Questions related to Course Outcomes CO Number
Part – A
Questions carrying 3 Marks
1 Explain File system and types of file system supported in linux. 4331602.c
2 Explain file attributes and file types in Linux. 4331602.c
3 What are the different accessing methods of file? 4331602.c
4 Justify the need of security measures in Operating System. 4331602.d
5 Justify the need of authentication in Operating system 4331602.d
6 What are different program threats in OS? 4331602.d
7 What are the different system threats in OS. 4331602.d
8 Discuss types of looping statements in shell script. 4331602.e
9 Discuss basic operator in shell scripts. 4331602.e
Write linux command for following.
1. Display the user id of currently logged in user.
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2. Display host name of your system.
3. Display history of logins into system.
Write linux command for following:
1. Display the date of your system
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2. Display help for pwd command
3. Display the history of previously executed command.
12 Explain mkdir, mv, cp and rm command. 4331602.e
Part – B
Questions carrying 4 Marks
1 Explain various ways to access files into a computer system. 4331602.c
2 Differentiate between various file allocation methods. 4331602.c
3 Explain operating system security policies and procedure. 4331602.d
Describe various program threats and system threats in Operating 4331602.d
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system.
5 Explain Access control list in OS. 4331602.d
6 Write a shell script to find among three numbers. 4331602.e
 Write shell script to read five numbers from user and find average
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of five numbers.
Part – C
Questions carrying 7 Marks
1 List various file allocation methods and explain them in detail. 4331602.c
2 Discuss types of Linux file System. 4331602.c
What is protection in operating system? Explain the need of 4331602.d
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protection mechanism in operating system.
What is protection in operating system? Explain protection domain 4331602.d
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and access control list in protection mechanism.
5 Explain access control list in OS. 4331602.d
Discuss the following commands:
6 i) Whoami ii) grep iii) cat iv) pwd v) ls 4331602.e
vi) kill vii)ps
Discuss the following commands:
7 ii) top ii) head iii) tail iv) su v) hostname 4331602.e
vi) date vii) cal
Write a shell script to find numbers od characters, words and lines
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of given input file “abc.txt”.