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Operating Systems General Concepts Interview Questions

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What are loosely coupled systems?

1125

Explain the positioning time for a disk.

1093

What do you mean by a zombie process?

1100

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

1081

Explain condition variable.

1019

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

999

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

1020

Explain bootstrap program in operating system.

1070

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

1057

Name the functions constituting the os's memory management.

1040

How does reference counting manage memory allocated objects?

1054

What are the different synchronization mechanisms?

1036

When does page fault error occur?

1055

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?

1000

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

1027

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How do I fix error 429?

975

What is the difference between 32 bit and 64 bit os?

1002

Why partitioning and formatting is a prerequisite to installing an operating system?

1599

Which technology does Pentium use - RISC or CISC?

1060

What are the different functions of an operating system?

1028

Who invented os?

1004

Is there a 86 bit operating system?

1027

What is a job queue?

1141

What is the meaning of Thread Priority?

1115

What is tty stand for?

1008

Explain pcb.

1048

What is inaddr_any?

1060

Explain briefly about loader and its functioning?

1008

what is difference between xp & 2003?

1987

Are there any problems that the cpu faces? Have any measures been taken to make it more efficient?

1358

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