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Operating System (OS) Interview Questions And Answers

Operating Systems Windows Linux Unix and Mac :: Operating System (OS) Job Interview Questions and Answers

Operating System (OS) Interview Questions and Answers  will guide every kind of job seeker because computer is the basic need for any organization so every one must have so of the basic idea of computer and the Operating System is the soul of computer. So this guide is for every one who want to know the basics of Operating System called as OS.

1 What is the OPERATING SYSTEM?
2 What are the OPERATING SYSTEM TYPES?
3 What are the basic functions of an operating system?
4 Why paging is used in OS?
5 While running DOS on a PC, which command would be used to duplicate the entire diskette?
6 What resources are used when a thread created? How do they differ from those when a process is created?
7 What is the virtual memory?
8 What is Throughput, Turnaround time, waiting time and Response time?
9 What is the state of the processor, when a process is waiting for some event to occur?
10 What is the important aspect of a real-time system or Mission Critical Systems?
11 What is the difference between Hard and Soft real-time systems?
12 What is the cause of thrashing? How does the system detect thrashing?
13 What is multi tasking, multi programming and multi threading?
14 What is hard disk and what is its purpose?
15 What is fragmentation? Different types of fragmentation?
16 What is DRAM? In which form does it store data?
17 What is the Dispatcher?
18 What is the CPU Scheduler?
19 What is the Context Switch?
20 What is the cache memory?
21 What is a Safe State and what is its use in deadlock avoidance?
22 What is the Real-Time System?