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  1. What is Memory-Management Unit (MMU)?

  2. Condition for deadlock occurrence?

  3. Differentiate between Complier and Interpreter?

  4. How the Kernel handles the copy on write bit of a page, when the bit is set?

  5. How can you come to the home directory?

  6. At what mode the fault handler executes?

  7. What is the main goal of the Memory Management?

  8. How do i partition the disk under red hat linux?

  9. What is Semaphore?

  10. How do you execute one program from within another?

  11. How the Swapper works?

  12. What is Throughput, Turnaround time, waiting time and Response time?

  13. What is 'ps' command for?

  14. Different types of Real-Time Scheduling?

  15. Distributed Systems?

  16. What is ?the principle of locality?

  17. What is cache memory?

  18. Difference between Primary storage and secondary storage?

  19. What is major difference between the Historic Unix and the new BSD release of Unix System V in terms of Memory Management?

  20. What is Page-Stealer process?

  21. How do you create special files like named pipes and device files?

  22. What is Fork swap?

  23. What is the window of the working set of a process?

  24. How would you kill a process?

  25. What is Context Switch?

  26. Is the Process before and after the swap are the same? Give reason.

  27. Difference - Loading and Linking?

  28. What is called a page fault?

  29. Compare Linux credit based algorithm with other scheduling algorithms?

  30. What is Expansion swap?

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