Operating Systems Interview Questions, Answers for Freshers and Experienced asked in various Company Job Interviews

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Operating Systems Interview Questions

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What is the basic difference between unix and windows operating systems?

Bopro, College School Exams Tests, CTS, IBM, IT-Kids, Priyadarshini, Sybian Technologies, Tolani Maritime,

43 181154

How do you find path of a directory? Give its syntax.

7 16502

In vi editor how do you execute unix commands?

10 22297

what is the use of "test" command in unix?

4 21465

Give a regular expression that finds two things, try to come up with regular expressions that find each individually using "egrep" command?

5 15022

How to get a particular string as your prompt ? Give syntax of that command?

3 12474

Can we execute any simple program without installing any Operating system?

7 13141

what is the difference btn collision domain and broad cast domain?

2 6962

Could you tell something about the Unix System Kernel?

ITCO, TCS,

3 9637

What are each of the standard files and what are they normally associated with?

ITCO,

1 5724

What is the main advantage of creating links to a file instead of copies of the file?

Cisco, ING,

5 14467

Write a command to find all of the files which have been accessed within the last 30 days.

Cisco,

14 28956

What is LILO?

Cisco,

11 20679

What is the most graceful way to get to run level single user mode?

Cisco,

9 16715

What does the following command line produce? Explain each aspect of this line. $ (date ; ps -ef | awk {print $1}' | sort | uniq | wc -l ) >> Activity.log

Cisco,

4 10586

Un-Answered Questions { Operating Systems }

How long does chkdsk r take to run?

915

How do you rotate an AVL tree?

972

Does it help for a Linux system to have multiple desktop environments installed?

1040

What are the steps to install windows operating system?

795

What does 0xc0000005 mean?

1032

Explain booting the system and bootstrap program in operating system.

1137

What is Page-Stealer process?

1284

What is vlc web?

857

How to change window manager by editing your home directory?

861

Which is the recommended size for the swap space partition?

943

Is unix a network operating system?

921

Does mcafee work on linux?

852

How do I do a whois search?

931

How do I remove administrator account?

900

What is a socket file?

888

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