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Operating Systems Interview Questions

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

1096

What are the major differences between Thread and Process?

1459

What is LiveLock?

1179

What is a volatile keyword?

1175

Tell me the difference between yielding and sleeping?

1060

What happens if we don’t override a run method?

1217

Discuss a Thread Life Cycle?

1139

What are the thread states?

1109

What do you mean by thread starvation?

1176

Which JVM parameter is used to control the stack size of a thread?

1089

What is the major difference between Thread.start() & Thread?run() method?

1167

What are the states associated with the thread?

1118

What is an immutable object? How can it help in writing a concurrent application?

1133

What is context-switching in multi-threading?

1223

What is the use of Synchronized keyword?

1084

Un-Answered Questions { Operating Systems }

Where are windows mail files stored?

924

Why is hard drive not detected?

944

What is a dialog box in windows 10?

921

Explain the difference between pid and ppid with example.

1157

Are unix sockets faster than tcp?

912

A pair of redundant systems are operating, how would you ensure that when one of them goes down, the other one will take over its operation?

1176

How do I find com ports in linux?

931

Explain what is meant by CORE DUMPS?

1120

What are apk files?

977

How do I get to the windows desktop?

907

Are dll files binary?

988

Define ancestor and descendant ?

1104

What will you prefer for traversing through a list of elements between singly and doubly linked lists?

969

Why are dll files missing?

1026

What happens if we put duplicate key in hashmap?

922

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