Python Questions and Answers – Operating System

This set of Python Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on “Operating System”.

1. What does os.name contain?
a) the name of the operating system dependent module imported
b) the address of the module os
c) error, it should’ve been os.name()
d) none of the mentioned
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2. What does print(os.geteuid()) print?
a) the group id of the current process
b) the user id of the current process
c) both the group id and the user of the current process
d) none of the mentioned
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3. What does os.getlogin() return?
a) name of the current user logged in
b) name of the superuser
c) gets a form to login as a different user
d) all of the mentioned
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4. What does os.close(f) do?
a) terminate the process f
b) terminate the process f if f is not responding
c) close the file descriptor f
d) return an integer telling how close the file pointer is to the end of file
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5. What does os.fchmod(fd, mode) do?
a) change permission bits of the file
b) change permission bits of the directory
c) change permission bits of either the file or the directory
d) none of the mentioned
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6. Which of the following functions can be used to read data from a file using a file descriptor?
a) os.reader()
b) os.read()
c) os.quick_read()
d) os.scan()
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7. Which of the following returns a string that represents the present working directory?
a) os.getcwd()
b) os.cwd()
c) os.getpwd()
d) os.pwd()
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8. What does os.link() do?
a) create a symbolic link
b) create a hard link
c) create a soft link
d) none of the mentioned
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9. Which of the following can be used to create a directory?
a) os.mkdir()
b) os.creat_dir()
c) os.create_dir()
d) os.make_dir()
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10. Which of the following can be used to create a symbolic link?
a) os.symlink()
b) os.symb_link()
c) os.symblin()
d) os.ln()
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