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

Explain the Difference between Process and a Thread.

HPCL, Hughes Systique Corporation,

1111

Explain the concept of Thread Pool? what its Benefits?

Sans Pareil IT Services,

1079

Given a Pid, how will you distinguish whether it is a process or a thread?

1157

How to sync two threads in multithreaded application?

MCN Solutions,

1129

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

Tech Mahindra,

1156

What is mutual exclusion and multithreading in OS?

Ittiam Systems,

1263

Why do we need threads?

1079

What is the Difference between a process and a thread?

Wipro,

1142

Can you access a variable within a worker thread from the main thread?

MindCracker,

1040

Define die threading and tapping.

John Deere,

1066

Difference between a thread and process?

Wipro,

1220

Differentiate between Multiprocessing, Mutliprogramming and Multithreading.

Essar,

1409

Have you used threaded trees anytime in your life time?

Tech Mahindra,

1315

How do you assign priority to a worker thread?

MindCracker,

1050

How to create a worker thread?

MindCracker,

1119

Un-Answered Questions { Operating Systems }

What is shadow ram?

1169

What is thread injection?

1295

What Command used to lock user password?

1154

Which type of memory allocation is referred for linked list?

1243

Do threads share registers?

924

How do I start apache in linux?

973

What is page fault? Its types?

994

Can we run sh file in windows?

1002

Describe main memory and secondary memory storage in brief.

1076

What is the difference between a Stack and a Queue.

1020

You suspect that you have two commands with the same name as the command is not producing the expected results. What command can you use to determine thelocation of the command being run?

1160

What does umask 077 mean?

1044

Are there beta or release candidate versions that can be downloaded for testing purposes?

861

What is a csv file and how do I open it?

964

Write the stack overflow condition.

1093

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