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This section includes 7 InterviewSolutions, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your Current Affairs knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
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What steps does the shell take after processing a command. |
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What are the uses of pipes in UNIX? |
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What are the different ways of redirecting I/O? |
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What is the alias mechanism in UNIX? |
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What do you understand by File modes in Unix? |
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There are multiple shell types of Unix. What are the features of the Bourne and Korn shell? |
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What are sockets? |
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Explain IPC. |
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What is cascading termination? |
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What is context switching ? |
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Explain PCB. |
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When an input file is opened, what are the possible errors that may occur? |
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What are the activities related to the Time Shared User Program Management? |
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What is time slice? |
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Differentiate between the user mode and monitor mode. |
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What is EIDE? |
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Explain the positioning time for a disk. |
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Explain the execution cycle for a von Neumann architecture. |
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How can the speed of interrupt driven input output systems be improved? |
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What is the need of device status table? |
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| 21. |
Why is interrupt vector used in operating systems? |
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Explain the handheld systems. List the issues related to the handheld system. |
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| 23. |
What is DLM? |
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Explain SMP. |
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What are loosely coupled systems? |
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What is graceful degradation? |
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Why is a single serial port managed with a single interrupt-driven I/O but a front-end processor is managed using a polling I/O, such as a terminal concentrator? |
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What do you understand by transaction atomicity? |
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What are merits and demerits of systems supporting multiple file structure and systems supporting a stream of bytes? |
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What are the benefits and losses of placing the functionality in a device controller rather than in placing it in the kernel? |
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How are data structures handled by NTFS and how does it recover from a crash? |
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Explain the booting process of a Windows XP system. |
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Explain the layers of a Windows XP system. |
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What problems are faced during the implementation of a network-transparent system? |
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What are the pros and cons of using circuit switching? |
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How can a VFS layer allow multiple file systems support? |
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What complications does concurrent processing add to an operating system? |
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| 38. |
When does the Belady's anomaly occur? |
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| 39. |
State the advantages of segmented paging over pure segmentation? |
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| 40. |
Why is the context switch overhead of a user-level threading as compared to the overhead for processes? Explain. |
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| 41. |
For a deadlock to occur what are the necessary conditions |
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| 42. |
What differences are there between a semaphore wait signal and a condition variable wait signal? |
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How does reference counting manage memory allocated objects? When can it fail to reclaim objects? |
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Explain how a copying garbage collector works. How can it be implemented using semispaces? |
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Why is round robin algorithm considered better than first come first served algorithm? |
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What are the different types of scheduling algorithms? |
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What are the advantages of distributed system? |
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What is a library? |
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What is a compiler? |
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| 50. |
What are the disadvantages of using threads? |
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