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This section includes 97 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your Computer Science knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
| 51. |
While working with MS-DOS, which command is used to specify the colour display, 40 columns and color? |
| A. | MODE COLOUR |
| B. | MODE/C |
| C. | MODE CO40 |
| D. | MODE CHANGE |
| Answer» D. MODE CHANGE | |
| 52. |
When executed from a bootable hard drive, which command will make a formatted floppy disk bootable? |
| A. | COPY C:\DOS\COMMAND.COM A:\ |
| B. | ATTRIB C:\*.SYS A:\ |
| C. | XCOPY C:\DOS\*.* A:\ |
| D. | SYS C: A: |
| Answer» E. | |
| 53. |
Which of the following commands allows you to make a directory? |
| A. | MAKE |
| B. | DIR |
| C. | MD |
| D. | DD |
| Answer» D. DD | |
| 54. |
While working with MS-DOS, which command is used to specify the size of the disk to format. |
| A. | FORMAT/F : size |
| B. | FORMAT/N : sector |
| C. | FORMAT/T : tracks |
| D. | FORMAT/V |
| Answer» B. FORMAT/N : sector | |
| 55. |
HIMEM.SYS controls: |
| A. | DOS=HIGH |
| B. | RMDRIVE.SYS |
| C. | SMARTDRV.SYS |
| D. | Extended Memory |
| Answer» E. | |
| 56. |
Which of the following commands will take you directly to the root directory no matter what subdirectory you are currently in? |
| A. | CD \root |
| B. | CD\ |
| C. | CD\.. |
| D. | CD.. |
| Answer» C. CD\.. | |
| 57. |
To organize files on a disk, MS-DOS separates them into areas called _____ |
| A. | directories |
| B. | buckets |
| C. | areas |
| D. | area directories |
| Answer» B. buckets | |
| 58. |
In DOS, what key would you press to step through the Config.sys and Autoexec.bat? |
| A. | F1 |
| B. | F3 |
| C. | F5 |
| D. | F8 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 59. |
You want to view the contents of autoexec.bat on the screen using the "type" command, but it scrolls by too quickly, what switch do you use to make it pause? |
| A. | type c:\autoexec.bat /p |
| B. | type c:\autoexec.bat/more |
| C. | type c:\autoexec.bat|pause |
| D. | type c:\autoexec.bat|more. |
| Answer» E. | |
| 60. |
Which command will be used to display a column file compression ratio for each file of Double spaced disk? |
| A. | DIR/W |
| B. | DIR/S |
| C. | DIR/B |
| D. | DIR /C (/C switch introduced in DOS version 6.00) |
| Answer» E. | |
| 61. |
How would you allow device drivers and TSR's to be loaded into Upper Memory Blocks? |
| A. | DOS=High |
| B. | Devicehigh= |
| C. | Loadhigh= |
| D. | DOS=UMB |
| Answer» E. | |
| 62. |
To find out how much memory is available, you could type______. |
| A. | EMM |
| B. | MEM |
| C. | CHKDSK |
| D. | MEMMAKER |
| Answer» C. CHKDSK | |
| 63. |
Which command will be used to display file and directory names only, without size, date, and time information? |
| A. | DIR/W |
| B. | DIR A: |
| C. | DIR/B |
| D. | DIR/S |
| Answer» D. DIR/S | |
| 64. |
While working with MS-DOS, which command is used to restore only those files modified since the last backup, from the drive A to the currently logged drive or directory? |
| A. | RESTORE A: *.*/S |
| B. | RESTORE A: *.*/M |
| C. | RESTORE A: *.*/N |
| D. | RESTORE A: *.*/L |
| Answer» C. RESTORE A: *.*/N | |
| 65. |
To conserve battery power on your laptop computer. What DOS v6.x command should you use? |
| A. | Powermon.exe |
| B. | Power.exe |
| C. | Idel.com |
| D. | Pw.sys |
| Answer» C. Idel.com | |
| 66. |
Upper Memory blocks are located where? |
| A. | Conventional Memory |
| B. | Extended Memory |
| C. | Expanded memory |
| D. | Reserved Memory |
| Answer» E. | |
| 67. |
Filename extensions help identify certain files. What filename extension identifies command files? |
| A. | COM |
| B. | BAT |
| C. | EXE |
| D. | SYS |
| Answer» B. BAT | |
| 68. |
While using the DIR command, you can use certain switches with it. Which one of the following cannot be used with DIR? |
| A. | /P |
| B. | /W |
| C. | /S |
| D. | /T |
| Answer» E. | |
| 69. |
The COPY command of MS-DOS, is used to: |
| A. | copying files from one floppy disk to another floppy disk |
| B. | copying one or more files on the same disk or directory |
| C. | copying two or more files into a single file |
| D. | All of the above |
| Answer» E. | |
| 70. |
What is a TSR? |
| A. | test status request |
| B. | terminate and stay resident program |
| C. | take status request |
| D. | token set ready |
| Answer» C. take status request | |
| 71. |
The Fdisk command in DOS _____ . |
| A. | Partitions the hard drive for use |
| B. | Fixes erroneous hard drive |
| C. | Formats data sectors on a hard drive |
| D. | Checks hard drive for lost clusters |
| Answer» B. Fixes erroneous hard drive | |
| 72. |
Which of the following is loaded for CD-ROM support? |
| A. | VLM.EXE |
| B. | CDDEX.EXE |
| C. | DOSKEY.EXE |
| D. | MSCDEX.EXE |
| Answer» E. | |
| 73. |
Which command is used to delete the directory that is empty? |
| A. | DEL *.* |
| B. | RD |
| C. | ERASE |
| D. | MD |
| Answer» C. ERASE | |
| 74. |
Each time you turn the power switch on, which control files will the computer check? |
| A. | COMMAND.COM, IO.SYS |
| B. | COMMAND.COM, DATE.COM, TIME.COM |
| C. | C0MMAND.COM, IO.SYS, MSDOS.SYS |
| D. | CHKDSK.EXE |
| Answer» D. CHKDSK.EXE | |
| 75. |
While working with MS-DOS, which command is used to move file from one directory to another? |
| A. | RENAME |
| B. | COPY |
| C. | MOVE |
| D. | CP |
| Answer» D. CP | |
| 76. |
Which two commands enable you to move between directories? |
| A. | CD |
| B. | CHDIR |
| C. | MOVE |
| D. | MOVE DIR |
| Answer» B. CHDIR | |
| 77. |
After trying to unload a TSR, you get an error message saying that other TSRs were loaded after the one you tried to remove. Which of the following commands could you use to see the current load order? |
| A. | MEM /P |
| B. | MEMMAKER |
| C. | MEM /C |
| D. | SYS: |
| Answer» D. SYS: | |
| 78. |
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? |
| A. | TYPE filename | MORE |
| B. | CAT filename | MORE |
| C. | CAT filename | pg |
| D. | MORE filename |
| Answer» B. CAT filename | MORE | |
| 79. |
Which command is executed before the others when a computer is first turned on? |
| A. | Device=c:\emm386.exe |
| B. | Device=c:\dos\himem.sys |
| C. | Prompt=$p$g |
| D. | Patch c:\dos |
| Answer» C. Prompt=$p$g | |
| 80. |
Where would you load the mouse driver mouse.sys? |
| A. | config.sys |
| B. | autoexec.bat |
| C. | win.ini |
| D. | io.sys |
| Answer» B. autoexec.bat | |
| 81. |
A system has two IDE hard drives that are each divided into primary and extended partitions, which drive letter is assigned to the primary partition of the second drive? |
| A. | C |
| B. | D |
| C. | E |
| D. | F |
| Answer» C. E | |
| 82. |
What file contains commands that configure systems devices? |
| A. | Command.com |
| B. | Config.sys |
| C. | Autoexec.bat |
| D. | Win.ini |
| Answer» C. Autoexec.bat | |
| 83. |
Which DOS command will configure a serial printing port? |
| A. | Parallel serial |
| B. | Mode LPT1=C0M1 |
| C. | Direct LPTl=COMl |
| D. | Mode printer ()-serial () |
| Answer» C. Direct LPTl=COMl | |
| 84. |
While working with MS-DOS, which command is used to restore files that were backed up using the BACKUP command? |
| A. | COPY |
| B. | DISKCOPY |
| C. | RESTORE |
| D. | STORE |
| Answer» D. STORE | |
| 85. |
The term TSR is an abbreviation for: |
| A. | Terminate Stay Ready |
| B. | Testing System Read |
| C. | Terminal Still Ready |
| D. | Terminate Stay Resident |
| Answer» E. | |
| 86. |
You suspect a virus has entered your computer. What will not be affected by the virus? |
| A. | CMOS |
| B. | Boot sector |
| C. | Floppy disks |
| D. | Program files |
| Answer» B. Boot sector | |
| 87. |
Which DOS command is used to remove and scan memory and disk from viruses? |
| A. | MSAV |
| B. | DEFRAG |
| C. | SCANDISK |
| D. | VSAFE |
| Answer» B. DEFRAG | |
| 88. |
Which DOS command will format a floppy disk and transfer the system files |
| A. | SYS C: A: |
| B. | SYS A: |
| C. | FORMAT A: /S |
| D. | FORMAT A: /T |
| Answer» D. FORMAT A: /T | |
| 89. |
Using the _____ switch causes FDISK to display the partition status of your hard disk without executing FDISK. |
| A. | /show |
| B. | /display |
| C. | /status |
| D. | /part |
| Answer» D. /part | |
| 90. |
Which DOS command is used to detect, diagnose and repair logical and physical disk errors on both, uncompressed and Double space compressed drive? |
| A. | DEFRAG |
| B. | DBLSPACE |
| C. | SCANDISK |
| D. | MSAV |
| Answer» D. MSAV | |
| 91. |
The _____ command allows you to modify the default prompt to provide other information |
| A. | prompt |
| B. | windows |
| C. | cursor |
| D. | click |
| Answer» B. windows | |
| 92. |
The buffers statement is found in what file? |
| A. | Config.sys |
| B. | Autoexec.ncf |
| C. | Autoexec.bat |
| D. | Neb.cfg |
| Answer» B. Autoexec.ncf | |
| 93. |
Which command is used to send the contents of file named REPORT/TXT to the standard printing device? |
| A. | TYPE REPORT.TXT TO PRINTER |
| B. | TYPE REPORT.TXT > PRN |
| C. | TYPE REPORT.TXT | PRN |
| D. | TYPE REPORT.TXT | PRINTER |
| Answer» C. TYPE REPORT.TXT | PRN | |
| 94. |
The MODE command of MS-DOS is used to |
| A. | display information about several types of devices installed in your computer |
| B. | provide various types of control over your printers |
| C. | make changes of the current display |
| D. | All of the above |
| Answer» E. | |
| 95. |
While working with MS-DOS, which command is used to undelete a bunch of files with extension DOC that you have just deleted? |
| A. | UNDELETE |
| B. | UNDELETE *.DOC |
| C. | UNDELETE/ALL |
| D. | UNDELETE/LIST |
| Answer» C. UNDELETE/ALL | |
| 96. |
After upgrading your computer to a new DOS version, an older application displays the error message "Incorrect DOS version". What should you do to run this application? |
| A. | Use the DOS+ command |
| B. | Use the SETVER command |
| C. | Restore the old DOS version |
| D. | Contact the application's vendor support line |
| Answer» C. Restore the old DOS version | |
| 97. |
Which command of MS-DOS is used to copy only files that have been modified on or after the date you specify? |
| A. | XCOPY/D : date |
| B. | COPY/D : date |
| C. | COPY/M |
| D. | XCOPY/V |
| Answer» B. COPY/D : date | |