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Operating systems

Processes, threads, scheduling, memory and deadlock — the interview's favourite systems round.

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Question 1 of 8

What do two threads of the same process share that two processes do not?

Question 2 of 8

Which is NOT one of the four Coffman conditions for deadlock?

Question 3 of 8

What is thrashing?

Question 4 of 8

A context switch between two processes requires:

Question 5 of 8

Which scheduling policy gives the lowest average waiting time, given all run times are known in advance?

Question 6 of 8

What problem do semaphores and mutexes exist to solve?

Question 7 of 8

In virtual memory, the page table maps:

Question 8 of 8

A user-space program asks the kernel to do something via:

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