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

Operating Systems General Concepts Interview Questions

Questions Answers Views Company eMail

What is a real-time system?

SureSoft, Verifone, Wipro,

7 12727

What is the difference between hard and soft real-time systems?

4 12081

What is a mission critical system?

CSE,

2342

What is the important aspect of a real-time system?

3343

If two processes which shares same system memory and system clock in a distributed system, what is it called?

IBM,

2 7956

What is the state of processor, when a process is waiting for some event to occur?

3 7808

What do you mean by deadlock?

2 5876

Explain the difference between micro-kernel and macro-kernel? Give an examples of micro-kernel and macro-kernel?

1 9377

When would you choose bottom-up methodology?

2584

When would you choose Top-down methodology?

2325

Why paging is used?

2 12349

Which is the best page replacement algorithm and why? How much time is spent usually in each phases and why?

3 14344

Difference between Primary storage and secondary storage?

3 25747

What is multi-tasking, multi-programming,multi-threading?

TCS,

9 47727

What is software life cycle?

2 5194

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Un-Answered Questions { Operating Systems General Concepts }

List advantages and disadvantages of dynamic memory allocation vs. static memory allocation.?

1181

What is the purpose of hard disk?

1073

What do you know about system model?

1118

What are the advantages of multiprocessor system?

1043

How many types of fragmentation occur in operating system?

975

How long does it take to run chkdsk?

1005

Who is the father of os?

1086

Why do we need threads?

1036

How do I search for a pattern in vi?

904

Explain smp.

1029

Explain the stipulations of c2 level security?

1105

How to stop running thread?

1122

What is sdram?

1008

What is medium term scheduling in operating system (os)?

1042

What is the concept of reentrancy?

1107

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