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,

1015

Explain the concept of Thread Pool? what its Benefits?

Sans Pareil IT Services,

974

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

1049

How to sync two threads in multithreaded application?

MCN Solutions,

992

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

Tech Mahindra,

1009

What is mutual exclusion and multithreading in OS?

Ittiam Systems,

1152

Why do we need threads?

1003

What is the Difference between a process and a thread?

Wipro,

1016

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

MindCracker,

928

Define die threading and tapping.

John Deere,

970

Difference between a thread and process?

Wipro,

1126

Differentiate between Multiprocessing, Mutliprogramming and Multithreading.

Essar,

1222

Have you used threaded trees anytime in your life time?

Tech Mahindra,

1184

How do you assign priority to a worker thread?

MindCracker,

959

How to create a worker thread?

MindCracker,

1025

Un-Answered Questions { Operating Systems }

Should you format a ssd?

862

What are the possible return values of kill() system call?

805

How do I combine multiple folders on a mac?

934

How do I register a dll file in windows 7 32 bit?

693

How do I install a patch in windows?

809

How do I restore my computer to factory settings windows 7 without cd?

782

Can you move program files x86 to another drive?

873

Boot sequence of linux on embedded platform

3183

What is the use of ls command?

1004

What is the home directory in unix?

892

How do I add a toolbar?

863

Can a 64 bit computer run 32 bit programs?

913

briefly describe the shell's responsibilities?

1208

How many sorting are there in data structure?

838

Can I disable delivery optimization?

968

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