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

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Operating Systems Interview Questions

Questions Answers Views Company eMail

If fsck is running, one thind u should not do.. what's that?

3 8132

If you try to send an e-mail to someone and the following message appear "Message Undeliverable", what could be wrong?

Wipro,

3 9071

How do you give a user access to an application or program that needs to run as root without giving them the root password?

3 9788

When you "ping server" and "ping server.domainname", you get different results. Why?

4 10931

How would you truncate a log file that is growing too large if you don't have space to compress it or to move it somewhere else? How would you do it?

3 13086

What is uadmin and what does it do?

3 12059

If you have multiple ethernet interfaces, how do you keep it from routing between them?

2 7469

You can receive e-mail, but when u try to send e-mail .. u can't send any. What is wrong?

4 8113

If you have forgotten the root password for a server, how do you get back in?

HP,

4 10803

Security point of view,What's there in NIS+ than NIS?

Locuz,

3 8937

How can you search for commands at the boot prompt if you only know part of the command?

9 14094

Tell me some of the differences between Solaris and Sun OS?

Lucent,

8 13890

How can you set EEPROM settings from Solaris?

Aricent, HP,

4 17580

What is OBP and how u r going to access it?

3 12035

What is LOM and how ur going to access it?

3 8823

Un-Answered Questions { Operating Systems }

How many types of data structures are there?

1102

What are the features of a window?

836

What are the mv command options?

886

What is the command for registry editor?

858

How can I use windows software on android?

815

Who invented data structure?

1059

Whats the difference between select() and poll()?

1638

Explain the command rate in reference to ram?

1065

Explain what is standard unix streams ?

976

How to get a list of tables, views and columns in firebird database?

891

What are different types of filters used in linux?

870

What is ordered map?

846

What does mkdir mean?

1126

What is meant by windows operating system?

767

What is thread and process?

815

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