1. Which of the following do you use to search a file in MS-DOS?

A. dir/d C. dir/s Answer: C B. dir/ad D. dir/a

2. What is the size limitation of MS-DOS file name and extension?

A. 8, 3 C. 3, 8 Answer: A B. 255, 3 D. 255, 8

3. What is the command to create a new directory in MS-DOS?

A. CD C. MCD Answer: D B. MC D. MD

4. What is the command to erase a file from the disk?

A. Erase C. delete Answer: B B. Del D. rd

5. Which of the following is not an internal MS-DOS command?

A. type C. dir Answer: B B. edit D. copy

6. Which is not displayed by CHKDSK command?

A. storage capacity of the disk C. free space in the disk B. number of hidden files D. number of executable files

Answer: D

7. Which external command file is required to use format command?

A. format.exe C. format.sys Answer: B B. format.com D. format.hlp

8. What is the full form of DOS?

A. Digital Office Systems C. Data Organization Software Answer: B B. Disk Operating System D. None of the above

9. A program or command to execute automatically when OS starts is kept in which file?

A. autoexec.bat C. config.sys Answer: A 10. Which command do you use to display the contents of a file? A. dir C. edit Answer: B 11. Which command do you use to list all the files and folders whose name contains EST from second character? A. dir *est C. dir ?est* Answer: C 12. Which of the following is not a MS-DOS internal command? B. dir ?est D. dir est B. type D. copy B. command.com D. any batch file

A. dir C. move Answer: C

B. copy D. rd

13. Which of the following command is used to display the list of files and directories starting with c? A. dir ?c C. dir c? Answer: B 14. Which of the following command is used to copy all the files stored in floppy disk into the DATA directory of hard disk (c drive)? A. copy A:\*.* C. copy A: Answer: B 15. What is the function of Ctrl+C in DOS? A. breaks execution of command B. copies the selected text C. saves a file Answer: A 16. What happens when you type CD\ and press Enter key? A. returns to the parent directory B. enters into a subdirectory C. returns to the root directory Answer: C 17. What type of OS is MSDOS? A. Single user, GUI C. Single user, CUI B. Multi User, GUI D. Multi User, CUI D. displays current directory D. undelete the deleted file C: C: B. copy A:\*.* c:\data B. dir c* D. dir c

D. copy A:\data C:

Answer: C 18. What does formatting a disk mean? A. Erasing data B. Bold, Italics, underline etc

C. Build/rebuild tracks, sectors D. none of above Answer: C