Operating Systems General Concepts Interview Questions, Answers for Freshers and Experienced asked in various Company Job Interviews

Operating Systems General Concepts Interview Questions

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Explain binary semaphore and its functionality.

Accenture,

972

What are the popular strategies used for multiprocessor thread-scheduling?

Accenture,

1011

Explain accessors to a layman.

Adobe,

1107

Tell me about different OS related issues for a given set of C-programs (mainly address issues address space, paging etc.)

Adobe,

1024

What is an OS? Explain it to a layman.

Adobe,

973

When does stack (process stack) overflow? What are the remedies?

Adobe,

1022

Briefly explain the concept of Virtual Memory.

Agilent,

1186

Define scheduling in OS.

Agilent,

1064

Explain the difference between logical & physical address.

Agilent, Amdocs,

1062

Explain the difference between internal and external fragmentation in memory management. Suggest ways to reduce them.

Agilent, Amdocs,

1075

Define paging and deadlock.

Agilent,

1159

Differentiate between pre-emptive and non-pre-emptive scheduling.

Akamai Technologies,

1159

Describe Operating system?

Aricent,

975

Explain a heavy weight process?

Aricent,

1026

What are the different functions of an operating system?

Aricent,

969

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Un-Answered Questions { Operating Systems General Concepts }

Will chkdsk delete my files?

965

How to take backup using active directory recyclebin concept

2168

Is a directory a regular file?

955

What is a monitor?

1145

How can a vfs layer allow multiple file systems support?

923

How do I find my hidden files?

1040

What is dlm?

1012

How much ram do I need for gaming?

1023

What are threads in OS?

1075

What kind of operations are possible on a semaphore?

1026

What are a trap and trapdoor?

1027

What is risc technology?

1037

What are the different memories you know about? Which of them takes the shortest access time?

1098

Give an example of a Process State.

1118

Explain about assembler and the functions executed by them?

1032

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