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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What is the difference in interrupt mechanism from software to hardware?

HP,

1 5285

What are the problems can stack based management in recursive calling of functions?

HP,

1 5379

What is an interrupt lattency?

HP,

1 4723

What is interrupt table?

HP,

5 9416

What is difference between synchronous and asynchronous threads and when can we use them?

HP,

2 13893

How to find the number of sockets created in your system?

CA,

1 5950

When the process is hung...what the immediate solution you will give?

CA,

1 4890

What is busy waiting?

3 32410

What has triggered the need for multitasking in PCs?

1 9037

What is cache memory?

TCS,

3 7173

Give examples for 8 / 16 / 32 bit Microprocessor?

1 8758

What does microprocessor speed depend on?

3 17811

What is the disadvantage of microprocessor?

College School Exams Tests, TCS, Team Computers,

5 29934

What is the difference between microprocessor and microcontroller?

4Cplus, Alcatel, HCL, IBM, Infosys, National Instruments, Samsung,

64 206549

What is the difference between primary & secondary storage device?

11 79448

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Un-Answered Questions { Operating Systems General Concepts }

List the possible threads a thread can have?

1036

What is the difference between a file and a directory?

1140

What is a Real Time Operating System? Elaborate.

1302

Explain the concept of deadlocks? Why they are used?

1153

What are numerous ways in which a thread can enter the waiting state?

1087

Can you list the coffman's conditions that lead to a deadlock?

1170

What do you know about a pipe? When is it used?

1036

Tell me if you know how are the wait/signal operations for monitor different from those for semaphores?

1095

How to stop a long running thread?

1100

What is bounded-buffer problem?

1237

What do you mean by parallel processing?

1113

What are 4 types of operating systems?

1131

When does thrashing occur?

1054

What are the deadlock avoidance algorithms?

1179

What is a long term scheduler & short term schedulers?

1022

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