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 there are too many page faults what is the problem?

1 5474

Which is the best page replacement algorithm and Why ?

Honeywell, Intel, TCS,

5 38771

Why paging is used ?

1 5625

What are the basic functions of an operating system?

Satyam,

7 25562

Explain briefly about, processor, assembler, compiler, loader, linker and the functions executed by them.

1 8632

Differentiate between RAM and ROM?

DELL, Polytechnic Ibadan,

8 18774

What is DRAM? In which form does it store data?

1 4396

What is cache memory?

1 4799

Differentiate between Complier and Interpreter?

TCS,

2 5492

What are the different tasks of Lexical analysis?

4 17407

What are the different functions of Syntax phase, Scheduler?

Satyam,

1 12356

What are the main difference between Micro-Controller and Micro- Processor?

1 3599

Difference between Primary storage and secondary storage?

1 3788

What is multi tasking, multi programming, multi threading?

IBM,

2 7430

Difference between multi threading and multi tasking?

1 4184

Un-Answered Questions { Operating Systems }

Can I use command prompt to repair windows 10?

893

How is a hashset implemented?

926

What is the purpose of a stub zone dns ?

939

Why is 32 bit referred to as x86?

935

Elucidate on the different ids used in the unix process?

951

Is nvme better for gaming?

884

What is $# in unix?

963

What can be a reason for the solaris system slowing down? How can it be rectified?

1005

Can ssd drives fail?

890

What is the difference between syswow64 and system32?

989

How do I create a simple exe file in notepad?

926

What's the difference between a hashtable and a hashmap?

903

Explain shmseg?

743

If we are terminated at the middle of the program execution in UNIX,what will happen to the program, it will continue running r terminate r the o/p will be send to your mail?

1428

Does linux have threads?

862

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