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Operating Systems Interview Questions

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What are the advantage of using threads?

1119

State the advantages of segmented paging over pure segmentation?

1189

Explain booting the system and bootstrap program in operating system.

1143

Name the different types of memory?

1019

Explain thread.

1123

What do you know about interrupt?

1089

why is the context switch overhead of a user-level threading as compared to the overhead for processes? Explain.

1090

What is dlm?

1052

What are the necessary conditions for deadlock to occur?

1040

What are the various ipc mechanisms?

1048

What are the benefits and losses of placing the functionality in a device controller rather than in placing it in the kernel?

1139

What are pages?

1059

What are the activities related to the time shared user program management?

983

How are data structures handled by ntfs?

1167

What are loosely coupled systems?

1129

Un-Answered Questions { Operating Systems }

How do I check disk space in linux?

1048

Why is quicksort better than mergesort?

925

What's a command word?

1182

Is mac faster than linux?

869

Which sorting is best in time complexity?

954

Does arraylist guarantee insertion order?

908

How do I use nslookup in linux?

1050

How do I remove a soft link in linux?

1082

What is the current microsoft operating system?

1030

What is default array size?

1007

Which is better hashset or treeset?

1015

How do I get my windows start menu back?

886

What is array indexing?

1024

How can I tell if a program is 64 bit?

915

What causes the rpc.ttdbserverd process to be cpu bound?

1104

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