Operating Systems Interview Questions You'll Most Likely Be Asked
Operating Systems Interview Questions You'll Most Likely Be Asked
OPERATING SYSTEMS
INTERVIEW QUESTIONS
YOU'LL MOST LIKELY BE ASKED
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Interview Questions
Operating Systems
Interview Questions
You'll Most Likely Be Asked
ISBN-10: 1-946383-14-7
ISBN-13: 978-1-946383-14-3
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chapter 1 General 7
chapter 4 Threads 51
chapter 9 Windows 10 91
chapter 10 Linux 95
chapter 11 Mac OS 99
HR Interview Questions 103
Index 131
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Operating Systems
Interview Questions
Review these typical interview questions and think about how you would
answer them. Read the answers listed; you will find best possible answers
along with strategies and suggestions.
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Chapter 1
General
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devices
b) Application programs – These are the programs which
specify the methods to solve user’s problems. Example of
application programs are word processor, compiler,
spreadsheet etc.
c) Operating System – It is a software which controls the
usage of computer hardware among different application
programs of different users
d) User – A user is the person who is using the computer
system
4: What is an interrupt?
Answer:
An interrupt may be defined as an occurrence of an event which
causes the Central Processing Unit to suspend executing current
program, transfer the control to another program called service
routine and upon completion of service routine, resume executing
the suspended program. An interrupt may be caused by either
hardware or software.
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Disadvantages:
a) As one machine is used as a standby therefore asymmetric
clustering system does not utilize hardware resources
efficiently
b) Asymmetric clustering system is usually expensive
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