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What does Marshalling in Context of OS?

posted Aug 28, 2014 by Amit Kumar Pandey

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OS: How does the re-direction work internally in unix system ?

posted Apr 9, 2016 by Vikram Singh

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How can we define the virtual memory for Windows 7 OS?

posted Dec 7, 2014 by Amit Kumar Pandey

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What is cycle stealing in OS?

posted Jan 4, 2016 by Latha

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What are device drivers?

posted Apr 11, 2016 by Sathyasree

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What is thrashing ?

posted Dec 7, 2014 by Ganesh

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Does variable length partition schema suffers from internal fragmentation?

posted May 10, 2018 by anonymous

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Linux: Why the same binary shows different different output for the time comand ?

posted Jul 5, 2014 by Ganesh

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What does Binding in Context of OS?

posted Aug 28, 2014 by Amit Kumar Pandey

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What is the difference between early binding and late binding? How it is related to dynamic binding?

posted Mar 4, 2016 by Mohammed Hussain

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Reasons why we see application hang problems?

posted Dec 28, 2015 by Manikandan J

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What is the use of Page Replacement Algorithm, please explain each one with example?

posted Jul 24, 2015 by anonymous

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When does the condition 'rendezvous' arise?

posted May 22, 2015 by Shivaranjini

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Detailed info about snooping used in cache Cache Coherency ?

posted Apr 23, 2015 by Sachidananda Sahu

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What is major difference between the Historic Unix and .. of Memory Management?

posted Jan 5, 2016 by Mohammed Hussain

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What is fragmentation and it's type ?

posted Nov 13, 2014 by Neeraj Mishra

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Explain the following file systems : NTFS, Macintosh(HPFS), FAT.

posted Dec 28, 2015 by Sathyasree

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What is cache-coherency and how does it maintain ?

posted Dec 14, 2014 by Neeraj Mishra

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What is nohup in UNIX?

posted Dec 14, 2015 by Mohammed Hussain

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How a system can be prevented from deadlock ?

posted Sep 1, 2014 by Neelam

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Describe the Buddy system of memory allocation?

posted Mar 31, 2016 by Jayshree

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What is Concurrency? Expain with example Deadlock and Starvation.

posted Dec 28, 2015 by Sathyasree

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Differentiate internal commands from external commands.

posted Apr 11, 2016 by Sathyasree

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What are the different tasks of Lexical analysis?

posted Aug 18, 2015 by Mohammed Hussain

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Which are various file allocation strategy and which one is best? why?

posted Jul 20, 2017 by anonymous

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What is root partition?

posted Apr 11, 2016 by Sathyasree

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Is fragmentation possible in data link layer?

posted May 17, 2018 by anonymous

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Can we always prevent a deadlock from happening by providing for additional resources of the same kind?

posted May 10, 2018 by anonymous

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What is Tizen operating system?

posted Feb 12, 2018 by Panchika Trivedi

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What is symmetric multiprocessing ?

posted May 11, 2015 by Vikram Singh

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Difference between text and binary files ?

posted Sep 19, 2014 by Harshita

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What is mounting in context of OS?

posted May 31, 2014 by Amit Kumar Pandey

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What Init process does ?

posted Aug 24, 2014 by Ganesh

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What will happen if one of your web-server or appserver crashs during its execution?

posted Dec 22, 2015 by Mohammed Hussain

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How many states are possible for a process in OS and what are they?

posted Apr 6, 2016 by Sathyasree

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How would a filenamed EXAMPLEFILE.TXT appear when viewed under the DOS command console operating in Windows 98?

posted May 11, 2015 by Shivaranjini

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How to find out stack grows upward (towards higher memory address) or downward (towards lower memory address) ?

posted May 20, 2018 by Harshita

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what is virtual memory and use of it ?

posted Nov 13, 2014 by Neeraj Mishra

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What is process migration and where it is exactly used ?

posted Nov 14, 2014 by Neeraj Mishra

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What is preemptive multitasking?

posted Apr 9, 2016 by Sathaybama

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Under DOS, what command will you type when you ...

posted May 19, 2015 by Shivaranjini

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What is an idle thread and does it really exist ? How can a programmer create such thread ?

posted Dec 28, 2014 by Harshita

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Media Server: What is function of session control & resource manager in context of Media Server?

posted Jun 15, 2014 by Amit Kumar Pandey

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What does Semantics in Context of OS?

posted Aug 28, 2014 by Amit Kumar Pandey

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What is Throughput, waiting time and Response time?

posted May 14, 2015 by Shivaranjini

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What is NOS?

posted May 22, 2015 by Shivaranjini

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What is daemon ?

posted Nov 13, 2014 by Ganesh Kumar

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What is demand paging ?

posted May 11, 2015 by Vikram Singh

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What is inverted table ?

posted Sep 1, 2014 by Neelam

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Why does the need of process synchronization ?

posted Jan 3, 2016 by Harshita