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

How to identify which shell you are using?

1002

What is virtual desktop?

952

How to jump to a particular line in a file using vim editor?

944

Explain file permission in linux.

862

How to copy files to a floppy disk safely?

876

Explain regular expressions?

876

How do you look at the contents of a file named sample.z?

814

How do you check the status of all the services?

857

How do you sort the entries in a text file in ascending order?

859

How would you create a text file without opening it?

832

How would you search for a specific employee id in a file using the vim editor?

1287

Which are the shells used in linux?

924

How do you start and stop a service?

884

Write a bash script to delete all the files in the current directory that contains the word “linux”.

893

How to terminate a running process in linux?

948

Un-Answered Questions { Operating Systems }

What brand of windows are the best?

872

Is atomic thread safe?

1011

What are system calls used for process management in linux?

1110

Suppose if we have a variable 'I' in run method, if I can create one or more thread each thread will occupy a separate copy or same variable will be shared?

1158

If you tries to mount a share ( home directory )in a client machine, and it fails how do u approach?

2286

Which sorting algorithm uses minimum number of swaps?

861

Which collection is fail safe?

863

Give a basic algorithm for searching a binary search tree?

825

Define heap?

1069

What kind of issues you get?

2067

How do I save windows live mail to my hard drive?

875

how do I get the ip address of my machine?

What is the complexity of arrays sort?

922

Explain what do you understand by registers, briefly explain the various types of registers.

956

Why is sorting important?

864

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