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Quiz: OS Interview Questions

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The OS questions asked most in campus interviews, with crisp answers: process vs thread, scheduling, deadlock, paging, virtual memory, thrashing and more.

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  1. Question 1

    Which scheduling algorithm minimises average waiting time (preemptive version)?

  2. Question 2

    A process that has finished but whose parent hasn't called wait() is a:

  3. Question 3

    Deadlock prevention vs avoidance — which is correct?

  4. Question 4

    With 4 KB pages, what is the offset of logical address 9000?

  5. Question 5

    Which is a symptom of thrashing?