Operating Systems General Concepts Interview Questions
Questions Answers Views Company eMail

Explain binary semaphore and its functionality.

Accenture,

771

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

Accenture,

818

Explain accessors to a layman.

Adobe,

890

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

Adobe,

823

What is an OS? Explain it to a layman.

Adobe,

785

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

Adobe,

808

Briefly explain the concept of Virtual Memory.

Agilent,

1000

Define scheduling in OS.

Agilent,

871

Explain the difference between logical & physical address.

Agilent, Amdocs,

871

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

Agilent, Amdocs,

881

Define paging and deadlock.

Agilent,

942

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

Akamai Technologies,

962

Describe Operating system?

Aricent,

782

Explain a heavy weight process?

Aricent,

811

What are the different functions of an operating system?

Aricent,

788


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Un-Answered Questions { Operating Systems General Concepts }

Should I install 32 or 64 bit?

779


What layer is http?

755


What kind of memory is a ram categorized as?

743


On what level of security does windows nt meets?

778


What is starvation os?

782


What are the different raid levels?

828


How many types of fragmentation occur in operating system?

712


Describe horizontal scalability and vertical scalability.

834


Name the functions constituting the os's memory management.

796


What are the two main types of files?

798


How much ram do I need for gaming?

802


How do I tell if excel 2016 is 32 or 64 bit?

904


What is memory-management unit (mmu)?

847


Define max, min heap and search time of heap.

862


What is git bash?

764