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 Kill a Particular Process in windows?

Tomax,

5 12313

How to change the IP Address of the system in windows 95/98 and windows 2000 server system?

Tomax,

3 9890

What is Difference between thread and process?

AirTies, Azingo, Bloomberg, Encora, Goldman Sachs, HCL, HP, MES, Microsoft, Samsung,

28 269182

How to communicate between difference process?

HP, IBM,

2 11777

What is the best way of communication in multi process environment? ex: getting log from different applications from multi servers?

HP,

1 4935

What is scheduling and How it effects the processor efficiency?

HP,

2 5902

What is virtual memory, if OS didt have that concept What are the problems can arise?

HP,

6 17021

What is the best suited algorithm to avoid internal fragmentation?

HP,

2 9977

How to escape from external fragmentation?

HP,

2 6034

What is difference in managing processes in windows, unix, RTOS?

HP,

2855

What is the difference between mutex and semaphore?

HP, Microsoft,

14 62055

What are counting semaphores?

HP, IBM,

4 17403

which is best among semaphores and mutexes?

HP,

2 7803

which is best among pipes, queues, shared memory and why?

HP,

2 7291

What are named pipes?

HP,

3 7244

Un-Answered Questions { Operating Systems }

how will you find ltg size?

What does duff stand for?

880

How do files get corrupted?

956

What are dynamic loading?

1101

What is unix orphan process?

1009

Can you cancel chkdsk while it's running?

828

How does quicksort partition work?

966

What is the use of finger command in linux?

1021

Is binary tree a bst?

906

What is scalar data type?

998

Will windows use linux kernel?

1005

Which command puts a script to sleep untill a signal is recieved?

1082

What is the difference between an argument and an option (or switch)?

864

What is the makefile in c?

986

How do I run exe files on windows?

920

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