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

How does the user view the contents of a text file in UNIX?

IBM,

9 15436

What command will bring user back to their home directory in UNIX?

IBM, Wipro,

13 25137

What command a user use to view a long text file one page at a time in UNIX?

IBM,

8 18663

What command would users use to see what file one page at a time in UNIX?

IBM,

7 15159

What is priority inversion?

Juniper Networks,

10 38426

what are the various methods to overcome it?

Vector India,

2 10508

What is another for creating a task without using taskspawn?

2 12078

Send me some of the commands being used in linux

Aurobindo, Dr Reddys, IBM, Reddy Labs,

5 15174

Semafore is used for? a) synchronization b) dead-lock avoidence c)box d) none

HCL,

6 10966

What is the difference U have seen from a Dos environment to windows environment?

Honeywell,

1 5329

what do U mean by event driven ?

Honeywell,

1 6024

How do WinMain look like ?

Honeywell,

2519

How the messages are processed in Windows ?

Honeywell,

1 9103

What are parameters needed to distinguish an event ?

Honeywell,

2205

If there are too many page faults what is the problem?

Verifone,

2 11496

Un-Answered Questions { Operating Systems }

Can I upgrade my windows 7 computer to windows 10?

858

Explain the unmount system calls?

1001

How do you find the space complexity of a bubble sort?

890

How does a hard drive get corrupted?

963

What are the various components of a computer system?

1119

How do I clear my ram on windows 7?

849

List the advantages of bourne again shell or bash.

Is tcp or unix socket faster?

900

When the pipe is used?

1031

What is whois command in linux?

1170

Can chkdsk get stuck?

1030

What does disc error mean?

940

What does threads mean when downloading?

793

Why is linux faster than windows?

1084

How many unix commands are there?

1209

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