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,

1097

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

Accenture,

1142

Explain accessors to a layman.

Adobe,

1221

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

Adobe,

1132

What is an OS? Explain it to a layman.

Adobe,

1066

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

Adobe,

1130

Briefly explain the concept of Virtual Memory.

Agilent,

1316

Define scheduling in OS.

Agilent,

1152

Explain the difference between logical & physical address.

Agilent, Amdocs,

1168

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

Agilent, Amdocs,

1193

Define paging and deadlock.

Agilent,

1263

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

Akamai Technologies,

1283

Describe Operating system?

Aricent,

1096

Explain a heavy weight process?

Aricent,

1129

What are the different functions of an operating system?

Aricent,

1091

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How the Swapper works?

1066

What are the three types of operating systems?

1089

What is rdram?

1094

Explain the concept of the timesharing operating systems?

1144

What is the Difference between a process and a thread?

1142

How do I stop apps from running in the background?

1011

What are the five types of operating system?

1150

What do you mean by a zombie process?

1153

When does page fault error occur?

1104

How many types of os are there?

1093

How can you pause the execution of a Thread for a certain amount of time?

1142

Under what circumstances do page faults occur?

1240

Explain the difference between load-time dynamic linking and run-time dynamic linking?

1185

what is the difference between mutexes and semaphores?

1356

Explain the basic functions of process management.

1252

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