Operating Systems Interview Questions
Questions Answers Views Company eMail

Explain the concept of Reentrancy?

ADP, Microsoft, Seasia Infotech,

1 9418

Explain Belady's Anomaly?

TCS,

6 44771

List the Coffman's conditions that lead to a deadlock?

Cap Gemini, HCL, HP,

2 20391

What are short, longand mediumterm scheduling?

Accenture, SwanSoft Technologies, TCS,

2 12174

What are turnaround time and response time?

IBM, Maveric, TCS, WUB,

6 60021

What are the typical elements of a process image?

Accenture,

3 18778

What is the Translation Lookaside Buffer (TLB)?

1 7112

What is the resident set and working set of a process?

1 13444

When is a system in safe state?

2 14545

What is cycle stealing?

2 14713

What is meant by arm-stickiness?

Infosys,

1 10567

What are the stipulations of C2 level security?

1 4812

What is busy waiting?

3 11799

Explain the popular multiprocessor thread-scheduling strategies.

1 10072

When does the condition 'rendezvous' arise?

2 10023


Un-Answered Questions { Operating Systems }

How do I find the linux version?

505


What is process termination in unix?

471


Can you enlist some commonly used network commands?

600


What exactly is data?

518


What is difference between file and directory?

537






What is dangling pointer and how to avoid it?

545


Differentiate between queue and deque.

510


What is the full form of ipc?

582


How do I stop a windows script host?

429


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

470


What is the definition of windows operating system?

431


How do I move my downloads folder?

463


Describe tree database.

524


How do I turn off windows error reporting?

418


Users come to you and they will be saying mail server is very slow, what are the necessary steps you will take to resolve this issue in Linux?

514