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Operating Systems General Concepts Interview Questions

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What are loosely coupled systems?

1073

Explain the positioning time for a disk.

1037

What do you mean by a zombie process?

1051

What differences are there between a semaphore wait signal and a condition variable wait signal?

1008

Explain condition variable.

957

What do you know about a pipe? When is it used?

930

Is non-pre-emptive scheduling frequently used in a computer? Why?

951

Explain bootstrap program in operating system.

982

Is it possible to have a deadlock involving only one process?

973

Name the functions constituting the os's memory management.

974

How does reference counting manage memory allocated objects?

991

What are the different synchronization mechanisms?

981

When does page fault error occur?

1006

Why is a single serial port managed with a single interrupt-driven i/o but a front-end processor is managed using a polling i/o, such as a terminal concentrator?

956

Is it possible to have a deadlock involving only one process? Explain your answer.

959

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Un-Answered Questions { Operating Systems General Concepts }

What are the steps of booting?

1065

What are types of operating system?

958

Explain High Severity and Low Priority with example?

1007

What are the different raid levels?

1035

What do you understand by multi-threading and multi-tasking?

1009

What is the Difference between Loading and Linking ?

16937

How can I run 32 bit on 64 bit?

977

Do you know what is a binary semaphore?

1015

Is bgp layer 3 or 4?

934

What is the difference between a file and a directory?

1022

What is 32 bit operating system?

1028

How do I search for excel files on my computer?

969

Do I install 32 bit or 64 bit office?

947

Is vmware a hypervisor?

895

State two differences between user and kernel space?

1015

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