software engineering MCQs – Page 64

Practise multiple-choice questions from software engineering for competitive examinations and subject revision. Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.

1261. In which directory can you store system user default files used for creating user directories ?
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A. /usr/tmp

B. /etc/default

C. /etc/users

D. /etc/skel
1262. The channel capacity or a maximum throughput of a logical or physical communication path in a digital communication system is called_________________?
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A. Bitrate

B. Broadband

C. Capacity

D. Bandwidth
1263. Which command is used to sort the lines of data in a file in reverse order__________________?
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A. st

B. sort -r

C. sh

D. sort

1264. Which of the following could be digital input devices for computers ?
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A. All of the above

B. Microphone

C. Digital camcorder

D. Scanner

1265. One Megabyte is equals to____________________?
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A. 1million bits

B. 1 million bytes

C. 1000 bytes

D. 10000 bits

1266. How many networks and nodes per network, are allowed by the Class B network?
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A. 2,097,152 networks and 254 nodes per network

B. 16,384 networks and 65,534 nodes per network

C. All of the above

D. 127 networks and 16,777,216 nodes per network

1267. _________________ provides access to the internet and web pages through a service provider by using graphical interface ?
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A. World Viewer

B. Input Output

C. Internet Browser

D. Computer Outlook

1268. The advantage(s) of incorporating the macro processor into pass 1 is/ are_______________?
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A. Functions are combined and it is not necessary to create intermediate files as output from the macro processor and input to the assembler

B. more flexibility is available to the programmer in which he/she may use all the features of the assembler in conjunction with macros

C. All of the above

D. many functions do not have to be implemented twice

1269. The main memory of a computer can also be called_________________?
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A. Internal memory

B. All of these

C. Primary memory

D. Primary storage

1270. Convert the 11014B machine language instructions into assembly language, assuming that they were not generated by pseudo-ops__________________?
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A. ASRA

B. STOREA h#014B, d

C. LOADA h#OD4E, i

D. ADDA h#01FE, i

1271. How many primary partitions can exist on one drive ?
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A. 16

B. 1

C. 4

D. 2

1272. What command is used to list the jobs currently in print queues ?
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A. lpq

B. lpc

C. lpr

D. lprm

1273. Which shells wild-cards is used to match a single character ?
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A. [!ijk]

B. *

C. [ijk]

D. ?
1274. In what module, multiple instances of execution will yield the same result even if one instancy has not terminated before the next one has begun ?
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A. serially reusable

B. reenterable module

C. non-reusable module

D. recursive module

1275. What command is used with vi editor to replace text from cursor to right______________?
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A. s

B. r

C. S

D. R

1276. Loaders that allow for program relocation are called__________________?
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A. relative loaders

B. relocating loaders

C. both A and B

D. None of the above

1277. Which protocol does ping the computer network administration software utility use ?
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A. ARP

B. Telnet

C. TCP

D. CMP
1278. What can he used to set up a firewall on a Linux system ?
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A. netstat

B. route

C. ipchains

D. trace

1279. Spam is related to___________________?
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A. Art

B. Music

C. Game

D. Computer
1280. Which command is used to copy a file wb with the same name from the programs directory to the misc directory ?
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A. tar programs/wb misc/wb

B. copy programs/wb misc/wb

C. cp programs/wb misc

D. copy a:programs/wb b:misc/wb