Unix interview questions – page 11

What are the Unix system calls for I/O?

Give an example of microkernel

What are the events done by the Kernel after a process is being swapped out from the main memory?

What is a FIFO?

Binding of Instructions and Data to Memory?

What is kernel? What is the difference between kernel and microkernel? What is the difference between unix and Linux? What is relational database,hierarchal database. and network database? their difference?

Difference between the fork() and vfork() system call?

What are the processes that are not bothered by the swapper? Give Reason.

What are the Methods for Handling Deadlocks?

What are the main difference between Micro-Controller and Micro- Processor?

How the Kernel handles the fork() system call in traditional Unix and in the System V Unix, while swapping?

What are the difference phases of software development or software life cycle?

What is the difference between Swapping and Paging? Swapping

What are states that the page can be in, after causing a page fault?

What are the basic functions of an operating system?

Describe different job scheduling in operating systems.

In what way the Fault Handlers and the Interrupt handlers are different?

What is Redirection?

What is hard disk and what is its purpose?

What is starvation and aging?

What is a Region?

Unix Command to get list of files (in subdirectories also)

Why is UNIX better for programming?

If you want to migrate a 32 bit application to a 64 bit os, what all would you check?

Differentiate between RAM and ROM?

What is active directory? How it works? What is DNS? How it works? What is DHCP? How it works? What is IAS? How it works?

What is the state of the processor, when a process is waiting for some event to occur?

What is the significance of the ?tee? command?

What is IPC? What are the various schemes available?

What are the criteria for choosing a process for swapping into memory from the swap device?