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Linux Online Quiz Following quiz provides Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) related to Linux OS. You will have to read all the given answers and click on view answer option.

These Linux online test quizzes on operating system and command have answers available with pdf, which is very useful in interview and also in Linux subject exam.

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1. Who wrote Linux Kernel?

A. Richard Stallman

B. Brian Kernighan

C. Linus Torvalds

D. Dennis Ritchie

View Answer
C. Linus Torvalds

2. Maximum number of processes exists in Linux system?

A. 16384

B. 1024

C. 2048

D. 32768

View Answer
D. 32768

3. SSH stands for _____.

A. Super Shell

B. Synchronous Shell

C. Secure Shell

D. System Shell

View Answer
C. Secure Shell

4. What is the linux mascot?

A. Elephant

B. Hat

C. Penguin

D. Gecko

View Answer
C. Penguin

5. What makes up a Linux kernel?

A. Gnome

B. Base Kernel

C. Kernel Modules

D. B & C

View Answer
D. B & C

6. Which is a Linux ‘Desktop Environment’?

A. KDE

B. Gnome

C. XFCe

D. All of these

View Answer
D. All of these

7. GRUB stands for?

A. GNU Released UNIX Booter

B. Gentoo’s Regular Booter

C. Grand Unified Boot Loader

D. Great UNIX Boot Loader

View Answer
C. Grand Unified Boot Loader

8. Ubuntu is based on…

A. Gentoo

B.  Slackware

C. Fedora

D. Debian

View Answer
D. Debian

9. Fedora Linux uses _____ packages.

A. rpm

B. deb

C. deb_src

D. ebuild

View Answer
A. rpm

10. Which firewall is most commonly used on Linux?

A. ipfw

B. iptables

C. pf

D. ipchains

View Answer
B. iptables

11. LVM is…

A. Light Video Manager

B. Logical Volume Manager

C. Linux Volume Manager

D. Linux Video Manager

View Answer
B. Logical Volume Manager

12. Which of the following is not an editor?

A. vi

B. expr

C. ex

D. emacs

View Answer
B. expr

13.  The Linux OS is not affected by malware.

A. False

B. True

View Answer
A. False

14. Which is the core of the operating system?

A. Shell

B. Script

C. Commands

D. Kernel

View Answer
D. Kernel

15. Maximum how long can a Linux filename be?

A. 32 Bytes

B. 64 Bytes

C. 128 Bytes

D. 255 Bytes

View Answer
D. 255 Bytes

16. System structure of Linux is?

A. Monolithic Kernel

B. UNIX

C. Microsoft Windows

D. Window Vista

View Answer
A. Monolithic Kernel

17. FSF stand for?

A. First Serve First

B. Free Software Foundation

C. Free Software File

D. None of the above

View Answer
B. Free Software Foundation

18. The OS which is not based on Linux is?

A. Redhat

B. BSD

C. CentOs

D.  Ubuntu

View Answer
B. BSD

19. File name that handle interrupts in Linux is

A. Access file

B. Control file

C. Proc interrupts file

D. Interrupts file

View Answer
C. Proc interrupts file

20. Which command is used to remove files?

A. erase

B. rm

C. dm

D. delete

View Answer
B. rm