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What is Batch processing and what are its advantages and disadvantages?
posted Jul 13, 2015 by anonymous
  • operating system
  • os
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What are the advantages of multiprocessor system?
posted Apr 7, 2016 by Latha
  • operating system
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What is the meaning of dispatch latency in context of operating system?
posted May 31, 2014 by Amit Kumar Pandey
  • os
  • operating system
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What are the advantages and disadvantages of multiprogramming?
posted Jun 6, 2016 by Mike Kipngetich Bore
  • operating system
  • os
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What is the difference between kernel level thread and user level thread?
posted Jul 18, 2015 by anonymous
  • threads
  • process
  • operating system
  • os
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What are the disadvantages of context switching ?
posted Dec 28, 2014 by Vikram Singh
  • operating system
  • os
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OS: What does mean of "rendezvous" condition in the context of operating system ?
posted Jun 28, 2014 by Harshita
  • os
  • operating system
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What is the difference bewteen Single partition allocation and Multiple partition allocation?
posted Jul 23, 2015 by anonymous
  • os
  • operating system
  • memory management
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Please explain the high level architecture of Linux Operating System?
posted Aug 4, 2015 by anonymous
  • operating system
  • linux
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Your application home directory is full? How will you find which directory is taking how much space?
posted Oct 14, 2015 by Mohammed Hussain
  • linux
  • operating system
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First operating system designed using C programming language? [MCQ]
posted Nov 24, 2017 by anonymous
  • c
  • operating system
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OS: What is Belady's Anomaly ?
posted Jun 28, 2014 by Harshita
  • os
  • operating system
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OS: What's difference between hardware interrupt and software interrupt ?
posted Jun 1, 2014 by Ganesh Kumar
  • os
  • linux
  • unix
  • operating system
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What is the need of three scheduler i.e Long Term, Short Term and Medium Term Scheduler in an OS?
posted Jul 14, 2015 by anonymous
  • operating system
  • os
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What is compaction in context of operating system?
posted May 31, 2014 by Amit Kumar Pandey
  • os
  • operating system
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OS: Differences between compile time, load time and execution time bindings ?
posted Jun 1, 2014 by Vikram Singh
  • operating system
  • os
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What are the reasons for process suspension?
posted May 19, 2015 by Shivaranjini
  • operating system
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What is virtual memory, how is it implemented, and why do operating systems use it?
posted Aug 5, 2015 by Mohammed Hussain
  • operating system
  • memory management
  • virtual memory
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Why cache memory is faster than RAM?
posted Mar 18, 2016 by Chirag Gangdev
  • operating system
  • memory
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What are the advantages and disadvantages of an inverted page table as compared to a normal page table?
posted May 26, 2016 by anonymous
  • operating system
  • os
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When designing the file structure for an operating system, what attributes are considered?
posted Apr 15, 2016 by Latha
  • operating system
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How does swapping result in better memory management?
posted Apr 15, 2016 by Latha
  • operating system
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What are the different types of CPU registers in a typical operating system design?
posted Apr 8, 2016 by Latha
  • operating system
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What is the cause of thrashing? How does the system detect thrashing?
posted Feb 25, 2016 by Mohammed Hussain
  • operating system
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What is the latency, transfer and seek time with respect to disk I/O?
posted Mar 31, 2016 by Jayshree
  • operating system
  • os
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What are the different functions of Syntax phase, Scheduler?
posted Sep 7, 2015 by Mohammed Hussain
  • operating system
  • os
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How does dynamic loading aid in better memory space utilization?
posted Apr 6, 2016 by Sathyasree
  • operating system
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OS: What are the advantages of having multiprocessor over the single processor in a system ?
posted May 31, 2016 by Vikram Singh
  • operating system
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What are some pros and cons of a command line interface?
posted Apr 8, 2016 by Latha
  • operating system
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What is thrashing in context of operating system?
posted Dec 8, 2015 by anonymous
  • os
  • operating system
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What is the difference among Contiguous File Allocation, Linked File Allocation and Indexed File Allocation method?
posted Jul 27, 2015 by anonymous
  • operating system
  • os
  • file system
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Peterson's solution to the critical section problem, is not guaranteed on modern architecture why?
posted Dec 28, 2013 by Atiqur Rahman
  • operating system
  • programming
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What is process spawning?
posted May 22, 2015 by Shivaranjini
  • operating system
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When the process issues an I/O request: a) It is placed in an I/O queue b) It is placed in a waiting queue...
posted Jun 2, 2018 by anonymous
  • interview questions
  • operating system
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Why is partitioning and formatting a prerequisite to installing an operating system?
posted Apr 9, 2016 by Sathaybama
  • operating system
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What is DMA i.e. direct memory access, please describe in detail?
posted Aug 1, 2015 by anonymous
  • operating system
  • os
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What is the purpose of swapping in virtual memory?
posted Aug 5, 2015 by Mohammed Hussain
  • operating system
  • virtual memory
  • memory management
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What is the difference between dynamic and static linking?
posted Jul 21, 2015 by anonymous
  • operating system
  • os
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What are various multiprocessor thread-scheduling strategies of threads?
posted Mar 31, 2016 by Jayshree
  • operating system
  • multithreading
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Explain about paged segmentation and segment paging?
posted Sep 7, 2015 by Mohammed Hussain
  • operating system
  • os
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Explain briefly the procedure for re-installing Grub in Linux ?
posted Sep 29, 2015 by Mohammed Hussain
  • linux
  • operating system
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Which is the best page replacement algorithm and Why? How much time is spent usually in each phases and why?
posted May 12, 2016 by Hasan Raza
  • operating system
  • os
  • interview questions
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What is a Thread and how it is different from Process?
posted Jul 18, 2015 by anonymous
  • operating system
  • os
  • threads
  • process
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What is "chmod" command? What do you understand by this line “r-- -w- --x?
posted Dec 9, 2015 by Mohammed Hussain
  • linux
  • operating system
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What is Priority Based Scheduling for processes in an Operating System, please explain with detail?
posted Jul 15, 2015 by anonymous
  • operating system
  • scheduling
  • process
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What are the various states of a process?
posted Jul 13, 2015 by anonymous
  • operating system
  • os
  • process
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If two processes which shares same system memory and system clock in a distributed system, What is it called?
posted Aug 26, 2015 by Mohammed Hussain
  • operating system
  • process
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What is a PCB i.e. Process Control Block in context of OS why it is needed and what are the advantage of it?
posted Jul 14, 2015 by anonymous
  • process
  • os
  • operating system
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What are the basic functions of an operating system ?
posted Dec 2, 2014 by Vikram Singh
  • operating system
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OS: How I can see number of threads belong one process running in machine ?
posted Nov 20, 2016 by Neeraj Mishra
  • linux
  • interview questions
  • operating system
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