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

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RTOS (43)
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Operating Systems General Concepts (1242)
Data Structures (2039)

Operating Systems Interview Questions

Questions Answers Views Company eMail

How to Kill a Particular Process in windows?

Tomax,

5 12205

How to change the IP Address of the system in windows 95/98 and windows 2000 server system?

Tomax,

3 9818

What is Difference between thread and process?

AirTies, Azingo, Bloomberg, Encora, Goldman Sachs, HCL, HP, MES, Microsoft, Samsung,

28 268562

How to communicate between difference process?

HP, IBM,

2 11710

What is the best way of communication in multi process environment? ex: getting log from different applications from multi servers?

HP,

1 4896

What is scheduling and How it effects the processor efficiency?

HP,

2 5828

What is virtual memory, if OS didt have that concept What are the problems can arise?

HP,

6 16883

What is the best suited algorithm to avoid internal fragmentation?

HP,

2 9920

How to escape from external fragmentation?

HP,

2 5952

What is difference in managing processes in windows, unix, RTOS?

HP,

2824

What is the difference between mutex and semaphore?

HP, Microsoft,

14 61783

What are counting semaphores?

HP, IBM,

4 17312

which is best among semaphores and mutexes?

HP,

2 7742

which is best among pipes, queues, shared memory and why?

HP,

2 7232

What are named pipes?

HP,

3 7161

Un-Answered Questions { Operating Systems }

What are reported commands?

1105

What is a regular file in unix?

968

What are the five types of operating system?

1051

Differentiate between iterable and iterator.

1060

What is meant by 32bit and 64bit operating system?

956

Can I use ie with google chrome?

947

Explain the different types of pathnames that are used in unix.

859

Why is merge sort faster?

855

What is Internet Address Classes?

1368

What is a property class?

967

What is directory unix?

920

Where do I find .exe files?

957

What is glibc linux?

953

What are the 7 elements of communication?

957

How to add network printer in windows xp?

839

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