Operating System Important MCQ Questions with Answers

1.   WINDOWS is-

  a. antivirus software             b. data storage device

  c. programming language   d. operating system

  e. scanning software

2.  The primary job of the operating systems of a computer is to –

 a. Manage resources                                     b. provide utilities

c. Provide communication interface        d. None of   these

3. Which of the following is the latest operating system?

  a. Windows XP                       b. Windows Vista

  c. Windows Millenium        d. Windows Fujitsu

  e. Windows java

4.  A hard disk is divided into tracks which are further subdivided into –

   a. Clusters                 b. Sectors

   c. Vectors                  d. None    

  

5. What is Android?

    a. A toy                                              b. Laptop Software

    c. Mobile Operating System     d. Star

    e. None of these

6. Which one of the following is not an application software –

    a. Java                               b. MS Word

    c. MS Excel                     d. Accounting Package

7. which one of the following Operating Systems is appropriate to implement a client server network.

     b. Ms DOS                   b. Windows 2003

    c. Windows 98           d. Windows 95

    e. None of these 

 8. Usually, in MS DOS, the primary hard disk drivers has the driver letter

    a. A             b. B    c. C    d. Any letter     e. None of these

9. which one of the following is not a open source operating system?

       a.Linux     b. Unix     b. Windows     d. Sun Solaris     e. None of these 

 10. which one of the following operating system is not a multitasking operating system?

       a.DOS        b. LINUX          c. Windows 98       d. UNIX   e. None of these

11. UNIX is a:

   a. Word Processing Program   b. Database   c. Operating System   d. RAM  e. ROM

12.  All computers must have:

     a. Word Processing Software     b. A printed attached

     c. An Operating System               d. A virus checking program

13. Start button was first introduced in which of the following operating system?

    a.Windows 95             b. windows 98

    c. Windows XP           d. Windows 7

14. which one of the following is not a function of an Operating System(OS)?

    a. Provide a user interface   

    b. Manage hardware devices

    c. Copy files from the network automatically

   d. Run programs

   e. None of these

15.  which one of the following Operating Systems(OS) has command line as the user interface?

      a. DOS   b. Linux  c. UNIX   d. All of these e. None of these

16. which one of the following is the most popular  Operating System(OS) for pc?

      a. Apple MAC OS X   b. Microsoft Windows

     c. DOS    d. Fedora  e. None of these

17. which  of the following is an example of Single user/Single tasking OS?

       a.DOS        b. Windows 7          c. Windows XP     d. UNIX   e. None of these

18.  In computer parlance the abbreviation ‘OS” usually means-

       a. order of significance      b. open software

       b. operating system            d. optical sensor

19. DOS is a .................system.

   a. data output           b. disk output

  c. disk operating        d. data operating

  e. data output

20. Main difference between DOS and windows operating system?

     a. windows is big   b. Windows multitasking environment

     c. windows graphical user interface   d. windows work very fast