Recent posts under tag operating system

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What are some pros and cons of a command line interface?

posted Apr 8, 2016 by Latha

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What are the different types of CPU registers in a typical operating system design?

posted Apr 8, 2016 by Latha

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What are the primary functions of VFS?

posted Apr 8, 2016 by Latha

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What is the difference between hardware encryption and software encryption?

posted Apr 7, 2016 by anonymous

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What are the advantages of multiprocessor system?

posted Apr 7, 2016 by Latha

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Describe Main memory and Secondary memory storage in brief.

posted Apr 7, 2016 by Latha

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What is Direct Access Method?

posted Apr 6, 2016 by Sathyasree

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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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What is the basic function of paging?

posted Apr 6, 2016 by Sathyasree

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How does dynamic loading aid in better memory space utilization?

posted Apr 6, 2016 by Sathyasree

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In the context of memory management, what are placement and replacement algorithms?

posted Mar 31, 2016 by Jayshree

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Describe the Buddy system of memory allocation?

posted Mar 31, 2016 by Jayshree

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What is the latency, transfer and seek time with respect to disk I/O?

posted Mar 31, 2016 by Jayshree

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What are various multiprocessor thread-scheduling strategies of threads?

posted Mar 31, 2016 by Jayshree

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How are the wait/signal operations for monitor different from those for semaphores?

posted Mar 30, 2016 by Latha

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In loading programs into memory, what is the difference between load-time dynamic linking and run-time dynamic linking?

posted Mar 30, 2016 by Latha

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List out some reasons for process termination?

posted Mar 30, 2016 by Latha

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Why cache memory is faster than RAM?

posted Mar 18, 2016 by Chirag Gangdev

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I am using windows 10 Single Language, Wifi driver disappeared while using internet ?What to do?

posted Mar 13, 2016 by Shivam 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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OS: Difference between formatted piping and low level piping and when to use what ?

posted Feb 27, 2016 by Harshita

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Few questions about Cache memory

posted Feb 25, 2016 by Chirag Gangdev

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What is the cause of thrashing? How does the system detect thrashing?

posted Feb 25, 2016 by Mohammed Hussain

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What is the important aspect of a real-time system or Mission Critical Systems?

posted Feb 25, 2016 by Mohammed Hussain

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Difference Between 3 (FAT32 vs. NTFS vs. exFAT) File Systems.

posted Feb 7, 2016 by Sunita

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What happen internally in the system when return type of main () function make as void ?

posted Jan 13, 2016 by Vikram Singh

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What does the swapping system do if it identifies the illegal page for swapping?

posted Jan 6, 2016 by Mohammed Hussain

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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 cycle stealing in OS?

posted Jan 4, 2016 by Latha

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What are the typical elements of a process image?

posted Jan 4, 2016 by Latha

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What are short, long and medium-term scheduling?

posted Jan 4, 2016 by Latha

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What is the concept of Reentrancy in context of operating system please explain in detail?

posted Jan 4, 2016 by Latha

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What are the various Coffman's conditions that can lead to a deadlock?

posted Jan 4, 2016 by Latha

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Why does the need of process synchronization ?

posted Jan 3, 2016 by Harshita

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What is Concurrency? Expain with example Deadlock and Starvation.

posted Dec 28, 2015 by Sathyasree

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Explain Memory Partitioning, Paging, Segmentation.

posted Dec 28, 2015 by Sathyasree

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

posted Dec 28, 2015 by Sathyasree

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Reasons why we see application hang problems?

posted Dec 28, 2015 by Manikandan J

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What is protection rings in the PC architecture?

posted Dec 22, 2015 by Mohammed Hussain

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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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What is nohup in UNIX?

posted Dec 14, 2015 by Mohammed Hussain

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How do you find which processes are using a particular file?

posted Dec 14, 2015 by Mohammed Hussain

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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

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How do you find how many cpu are in your system and there details?

posted Dec 9, 2015 by Mohammed Hussain

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What is thrashing in context of operating system?

posted Dec 8, 2015 by anonymous

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What is the typical sector size in an operating system?

posted Nov 19, 2015 by anonymous

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What are the types of time slicing in operating system?

posted Nov 19, 2015 by anonymous

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What is the difference among VIRT, RES, and SHR in top output in Linux memory management?

posted Oct 30, 2015 by Manikandan J

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What is nPartition and Virtual Partition?

posted Oct 20, 2015 by anonymous

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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