JCL And VSAM Mock Test-1
15 Questions
| Total Attempts: 11903
Questions and Answers
- 1.For how long a job can be executed continuously in a mainframe.
- A.
248 days
- B.
247 days
- C.
255 days
- D.
256 days
- 2.Which parameter denotes exclusive control of the dataset.
- A.
DISP=OLD
- B.
DISP=SHR
- C.
DISP=MOD
- D.
NONE
- 3.What are the kinds of job control statements.
- A.
JOB
- B.
EXEC
- C.
DD
- D.
ALL
- 4.Can you code Instream data in procedure.
- A.
YES
- B.
NO
- C.
BOTH
- 5.How do you access a file that had a disposition of KEEP.
- A.
By vol serial no.
- B.
using unit no.
- C.
Using catalog
- D.
All
- 6.Directory blocks are ________ Bytes each.
- A.
256
- B.
6
- C.
128
- D.
32
- 7.How do you skip a particular step in procedure or job.
- A.
COND
- B.
SKIP
- C.
IGNORE
- D.
NONE
- 8.What are the types of procedures.
- A.
INSTREAM
- B.
CATAOLOGED
- C.
OUTSTREAM
- D.
a AND b
- 9.Dataset of different LRECLs cannot concatenated
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 10.If a new model is created for every new GDG it should have the same name as the GDG
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 11.
- Default RECORDSIZE for a nonspanned dataset is -
- A.
(80 80)
- B.
(4034 32600)
- C.
(100 100)
- D.
(4089 4089)
- 12.
- At OPEN, VSAM determines processing options in following order:
- A.
JCL, Program, Catalog
- B.
Program, JCL, Catalog
- C.
JCL, Catalog, Program
- D.
Catalog, Program, JCL
- E.
None Of The above
- 13.Alternate Index is a special Type of
- A.
KSDS
- B.
ESDS
- C.
RRDS
- D.
PS
- E.
All of the above
- 14.VERIFY can not be used for:
- A.
Empty dataset
- B.
LDS
- C.
A & B
- D.
None
- 15.Which of the following REPRO selection parameters can be specified for an LDS?
- A.
FROMKEY
- B.
FROMADDRESS
- C.
FROMNUMBER
- D.
None
- E.
SKIP
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