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Process Management Interview Questions - Operating System

Last Updated: 01 September 2025

Process management is function of an operating system, responsible for creating, scheduling, and terminating processes. It ensures efficient CPU utilization through schedu...read more

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Program for HRRN CPU Scheduling Algorithm

Last Updated: 10 January 2025

The Highest Response Ratio Next (HRRN) scheduling algorithm is a non-preemptive scheduling technique used in operating systems to manage the execution of processes. It is ...read more

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Types of Scheduling Queues

Last Updated: 23 July 2025

Process Queues play an important role in process scheduling. This article will discuss different types of Scheduling Queues in detail along with their characteristics.Type...read more

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Operating System as an Extended Machine

Last Updated: 23 July 2025

The architecture of a computer is very primitive and awkward to program at the machine level language. So it is obvious that the user would not want to interact directly w...read more

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Turn Variable in Operating System

Last Updated: 23 July 2025

The turn variable is defined as a synchronization mechanism that is implemented in the user mode. The turn variable is also known as the Strict Alternation Approach. It is...read more

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Fork System Call in Operating System

Last Updated: 23 July 2025

In many operating systems, the fork system call is an essential operation. The fork system call allows the creation of a new process. When a process calls the fork(), it d...read more

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Critical Regions in Operating System

Last Updated: 06 August 2025

In an operating system, a critical region refers to a section of code or a data structure that must be accessed exclusively by one method or thread at a time. Critical reg...read more

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What is Spinlock in Operating System?

Last Updated: 23 July 2025

Operating systems depend on synchronization mechanisms to effectively manage multiple users access to shared resources. Spinlocks are one of these mechanisms that are cruc...read more

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Kernel Level Threads in Operating System

Last Updated: 23 July 2025

Pre-requisites: Thread in Operating SystemAn operating system is a program loaded into a system or computer. and manage all the other program which is running on that OS P...read more

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Context Switching in Operating System

Last Updated: 20 September 2025

Context switching is the process where the CPU stops running one process, saves its current state, and loads the saved state of another process so that multiple processes ...read more

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Difference Between Mutex and Monitor in OS

Last Updated: 23 July 2025

Pre-requisites: Monitors in Process SynchronizationIn the field of Computer Science and OS, Mutex, and Monitor are most of the important fundamental mechanisms which are s...read more

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Cooperating Process in Operating System

Last Updated: 23 July 2025

Pre-requisites: Process SynchronizationIn an operating system, everything is around the process. How the process goes through several different states. So in this article,...read more

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Swapping in Operating System

Last Updated: 15 January 2026

Swapping is a memory management technique in which a process is temporarily moved from main memory (RAM) to secondary storage (disk) and vice versa. This allows the operat...read more

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Difference Between Host and Guest Operating System

Last Updated: 23 July 2025

An Operating System (OS) can be defined as a mediator, which works between the software hardware of a computer The common task of OS includes memory management, managing ...read more

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Chain processes vs Fan of processes using fork() function in C

Last Updated: 23 July 2025

Fork System Call: The fork system call is used for creating a new process, which is called the child process, which runs concurrently with the process that makes the fork(...read more

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