Operating Systems General Concepts Interview Questions, Answers for Freshers and Experienced asked in various Company Job Interviews

Operating Systems General Concepts Interview Questions

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Explain binary semaphore and its functionality.

Accenture,

1034

What are the popular strategies used for multiprocessor thread-scheduling?

Accenture,

1089

Explain accessors to a layman.

Adobe,

1176

Tell me about different OS related issues for a given set of C-programs (mainly address issues address space, paging etc.)

Adobe,

1069

What is an OS? Explain it to a layman.

Adobe,

1006

When does stack (process stack) overflow? What are the remedies?

Adobe,

1081

Briefly explain the concept of Virtual Memory.

Agilent,

1262

Define scheduling in OS.

Agilent,

1103

Explain the difference between logical & physical address.

Agilent, Amdocs,

1114

Explain the difference between internal and external fragmentation in memory management. Suggest ways to reduce them.

Agilent, Amdocs,

1133

Define paging and deadlock.

Agilent,

1204

Differentiate between pre-emptive and non-pre-emptive scheduling.

Akamai Technologies,

1227

Describe Operating system?

Aricent,

1037

Explain a heavy weight process?

Aricent,

1078

What are the different functions of an operating system?

Aricent,

1029

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Un-Answered Questions { Operating Systems General Concepts }

What do you mean by semaphore?

989

What do you know about system model?

1125

How does ecc works?

1049

What do you mean by ram?

1021

What is a safe state and a safe sequence?

1114

What is a hard real time OS?

1188

What are the three types of operating systems?

1041

What is an operating system on a computer?

1049

What is interprocess communication in os?

1140

Explain what is a semaphore?

1112

Do you know what is a binary semaphore? What is its use?

1178

Explain how a TP Monitor manages memory and processor resources more effectively than a typical operating system.

1960

Does 64bit mean 64bit?

1051

What are the two types of file system?

1081

Explain Marshalling?

1042

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