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What is MUTEX ?
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What isthe difference between a 'thread' and a 'process'?
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What is INODE?
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Explain the working of Virtual Memory.
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How does Windows NT supports Multitasking?
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Explain the Unix Kernel.
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What is Concurrency? Expain with example Deadlock and Starvation.
·
What are your solution strategies for "Dining Philosophers
Problem" ?
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Explain Memory Partitioning, Paging, Segmentation.
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Explain Scheduling.
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Operating System Security.
·
What is Semaphore?
·
Explain the following file systems : NTFS, Macintosh(HPFS), FAT .
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What are the different process states?
·
What is Marshalling?
·
Define and explain COM?
·
What is Marshalling?
·
Difference - Loading and Linking ?
·
What
are the basic functions of an operating system?
·
Explain
briefly about, processor, assembler, compiler, loader, linker and the functions
executed by them.
·
What
are the difference phases of software development? Explain briefly?
·
Differentiate
between RAM and ROM?
·
What
is DRAM? In which form does it store data?
·
What
is cache memory?
·
What
is hard disk and what is its purpose?
·
Differentiate
between Complier and Interpreter?
·
What
are the different tasks of Lexical analysis?
·
What
are the different functions of Syntax phase, Sheduler?
·
What
are the main difference between Micro-Controller and Micro- Processor?
·
Describe
different job scheduling in operating systems.
·
What
is a Real-Time System ?
·
What
is the difference between Hard and Soft real-time systems ?
·
What
is a mission critical system ?
·
What
is the important aspect of a real-time system ?
·
If
two processes which shares same system memory and system clock in a distributed
system, What is it called?
·
What
is the state of the processor, when a process is waiting for some event to
occur?
·
What
do you mean by deadlock?
·
Explain
the difference between microkernel and macro kernel.
·
Give
an example of microkernel.
·
When
would you choose bottom up methodology?
·
When
would you choose top down methodology?
·
Write
a small dc shell script to find number of FF in the design.
·
Why
paging is used ?
·
Which
is the best page replacement algorithm and Why? How much time is spent usually
in each phases and why?
·
Difference
between Primary storage and secondary storage?
·
What
is multi tasking, multi programming, multi threading?
·
Difference
between multi threading and multi tasking?
·
What
is software life cycle?
·
Demand
paging, page faults, replacement algorithms, thrashing, etc.
·
Explain
about paged segmentation and segment paging
·
While
running DOS on a PC, which command would be used to duplicate the entire
diskette?
