Hello Everyone, In this Blog Post I am sharing Operating system questions asked in Amazon Cloud Support Associate interview. I have compiled all these questions from different resources at one place. I hope you will find these questions helpful for your preparation.
1. What to do if laptop is hanging a lot?
2. How to fix a slow computer?
3. What is RAM ? What is a thread ? What is a Pthread ?
4. Can CPU goes beyond 100%?
5. How to install and use a software which need more space than the available space
6. in your system ?
7. Virtual Memory - how I'm able to run a 7GB game with my 4 GB RAM? Why the
8. game gets slow in such cases - which OS I primarily work on and why?
9. Memory pages; Buffer and Caches. Difference between buffer and cache.
10. Explain deadlock? How can we prevent it? Explain semaphores in layman
11. language?
12. CPU scheduling Algorithms and questions based on them.
13. Explain different page replacement algorithm, and which is the most efficient?
14. Can round-robin be pre-emptive?
15. What is Active directory ?
16. Explain Boot process (either windows/linux)
17. What is Bash? How would you explain Bash/PowerShell to a non-technical
18. person?
19. How do you access root?
20. Commands to check memory and disk space in OS either Linux or windows?
21. What command checks for running processes?
22. where are the USB drivers installed in Linux
23. System date/time management, network time protocol
24. Managing Users and groups - explain chmod command.
25. File permissions
26. Managing software’s - installation, uninstallation, upgrade etc.
27. Managing system services and background processes
28. How to view logs in windows ?
29. Which directory are log files stored?
30. A user says that whenever they try to use the system, it keeps rebooting, what
31. could be the cause of this? How would you go about trying to find out what's
32. causing the issue?
33. A client's system/server is having bad performance, what could potentially be
34. causing this? How would you go about trying to find out the cause of this
35. problem?
36. If I have to run a management script in my system at a particular time each day,
37. how will I proceed? What exactly goes inside cron jobs scripts - Difference
38. between processes and threads, pages and fragments
39. BSOD
If you have any doubts/queries, Please ask in comment section.
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can you please suggest resource from where we can learn about answers of above questions
ReplyDeleteHi, there is no place , where you can find all answers at one place.
DeleteYou will.have to Google all questions seperately, just google you will get all answers. In case if you will face any problem, just write here the question. I will send you the link.
Hope it will help you.
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