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

Explain the Difference between Process and a Thread.

HPCL, Hughes Systique Corporation,

1061

Explain the concept of Thread Pool? what its Benefits?

Sans Pareil IT Services,

1011

Given a Pid, how will you distinguish whether it is a process or a thread?

1085

How to sync two threads in multithreaded application?

MCN Solutions,

1063

What do you understand by multi-threading and multi-tasking?

Tech Mahindra,

1089

What is mutual exclusion and multithreading in OS?

Ittiam Systems,

1201

Why do we need threads?

1036

What is the Difference between a process and a thread?

Wipro,

1083

Can you access a variable within a worker thread from the main thread?

MindCracker,

984

Define die threading and tapping.

John Deere,

1002

Difference between a thread and process?

Wipro,

1168

Differentiate between Multiprocessing, Mutliprogramming and Multithreading.

Essar,

1322

Have you used threaded trees anytime in your life time?

Tech Mahindra,

1243

How do you assign priority to a worker thread?

MindCracker,

1000

How to create a worker thread?

MindCracker,

1051

Un-Answered Questions { Operating Systems }

What is a linux process?

946

How do I see background jobs in linux?

817

Can you run file explorer as a different user?

928

How do I open a shell in linux?

951

What is ssh? How to connect to a remote server via ssh?

927

Difference between calloc and malloc in data structures?

908

What are the features and benefits of unix?

923

Does windows 8.1 still get updates?

814

Why is hard drive not detected?

896

What sorting algorithm does arrays sort use?

819

What is 0xc000007b error?

888

How long does a windows 10 update take 2019?

822

How can we recover a file that was deleted in linux?

816

How do I remove windows error reporting files?

827

How do you remove a virus from your computer?

968

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