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What is the meaning of register and main memory(ram) ?

Asked By: Omer Alwi | Asked On: Jun 6th, 2011

And give the difference between them

Answered by: Vaibhav on: May 1st, 2012

Registers are present in the CPU and are directly associated with ALU.So,overhead involved in accessing information from the registers is the lowest

Answered by: Deepika Sudam Nawale. on: Aug 24th, 2011

registers are used for storing the values.
eg ADD R1,R2
where R1,R2 are registers for performing the operation addition.

and main memory is also used for storing and registers are stored in main mem.

Differentiate between complier and interpreter?

Asked By: Interview Candidate | Asked On: Mar 6th, 2005

An interpreter reads one instruction at a time and carries out the actions implied by that instruction.  it does not perform any translation.  but a compiler translates the entire instructions.

Answered by: Sandhya.Kishan on: Apr 23rd, 2012

The compiler converts a high level language instruction into into machine language where as an interpreter converts the high level instruction into some intermediate form and after that, the instructi...

While running dos on a pc, which command would be used to duplicate the entire diskette?

Asked By: Interview Candidate | Asked On: Mar 6th, 2005

Diskcopy Java thread states

Answered by: Sandhya.Kishan on: Apr 23rd, 2012

Diskcopy command is used to duplicate the diskette,while running DOS on PC.

Why paging is used?

Asked By: Interview Candidate | Asked On: Mar 6th, 2005

Paging is solution to external fragmentation problem which is to permit the logical address space of a process to be noncontiguous, thus allowing a process to be allocating physical memory wherever the latter is available.

Answered by: Sandhya.Kishan on: Apr 23rd, 2012

Paging is a process of dividing the memory into equal sized logical blocks.When any page is required the operating system searches for that page in the secondary memory and copies that page to the mai...

What is context switch?

Asked By: Interview Candidate | Asked On: Mar 6th, 2005

Switching the cpu to another process requires saving the state of the old process and loading the saved state for the new process. This task is known as a context switch.Context-switch time is pure overhead, because the system does no useful work while switching. Its speed varies from machine to machine,...

Answered by: Sandhya.Kishan on: Apr 23rd, 2012

Context switching is a process of storing and restoring the state of the CPU So that the execution of the process can be resumed from the same point where it had been switched. There are 3 situations ...

What is throughput, turnaround time, waiting time and response time?

Asked By: Interview Candidate | Asked On: Mar 6th, 2005

Throughput – number of processes that complete their execution per time unitturnaround time – amount of time to execute a particular processwaiting time – amount of time a process has been waiting in the ready queueresponse time – amount of time it takes from when a request was submitted until the first...

Answered by: karankote nagekar abhishek on: Apr 18th, 2012

Throughput: Number of processes completed per unit time. Turnaround time: The interval from time of submission of the process to the time of completion of the process. Waiting time: The sum of the pe...

Answered by: SantoshBaral on: Mar 30th, 2007

Throughput:Total amount of work done in a unit of time.Waiting Time:The amount of time that is taken by a process in ready queue.Turn Around Time:The sum total of waiting time & execution time is ...

What is heartbeat in clustering?

Asked By: sunilbaglur | Asked On: May 5th, 2011

Answered by: Sandhya.Kishan on: Mar 14th, 2012

Heartbeat cluster is a program that runs specialized scripts automatically whenever a system is initialized or rebooted.This cluster allows clients to know about the presence (or disappearance!) of pe...

What is dhcp relay agent?

Asked By: sunilbaglur | Asked On: May 6th, 2011

Answered by: Sandhya.Kishan on: Mar 14th, 2012

It is a Bootstrap Protocol that relays DHCP(Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) messages between clients and servers for DHCP on different IP Network.using DHCP in a single segment network is easy. I...

How will you troubleshoot user login problem?

Asked By: ramraje | Asked On: Mar 4th, 2011

Answered by: raju on: Feb 21st, 2012

check whether Caps lock is on ,user is in AD or not...

Kerberos port no

Asked By: sunilbaglur | Asked On: Dec 23rd, 2011

What is the port no used by kerberos protocol?

Answered by: Peram on: Jan 12th, 2012

88

Active directory user accounts

Asked By: sunilbaglur | Asked On: Dec 23rd, 2011

Can we create multiple user accounts in active directory in a single shot? If so what is the command or tool used?

What are the difference between win 2003 and win 2008 os?

Asked By: sunilbaglur | Asked On: May 5th, 2011

Answered by: santosh on: Nov 30th, 2011

Difference between 2003 server and 2008 server 1.we can install windows 2008 server either in full version(install all services& applications) or server core(only install minimal required services), ...

Answered by: kifill76 on: Sep 28th, 2011

Primary difference is visualization management and power management tools.

Difference between logical and physical address space?

Asked By: Interview Candidate | Asked On: Mar 6th, 2005

->the concept of a logical address space that is bound to a separate physical address space is central to proper memory management.Logical address – generated by the cpu; also referred to as virtual address.Physical address – address seen by the memory unit.->logical and physical addresses are...

Answered by: pankaj chourshia on: Nov 13th, 2011

logical address is the address generated by the CPU But physical add is the actual add of any process.

Answered by: saro kumar das on: Nov 1st, 2011

cpu basically generates logically address but physical address is the actual address of the process in the memory.

What is the important aspect of a real-time system or mission critical systems?

Asked By: Interview Candidate | Asked On: Mar 6th, 2005

A real time operating system has well defined fixed time constraints. Process must be done within the defined constraints or the system will fail. An example is the operating system for a flight control computer or an advanced jet airplane. Often used as a control device in a dedicated application such...

Answered by: Ajay Ahuja on: Oct 19th, 2011

Guest What is the important aspect of a real-time system or Mission Critical Systems? A real time operating system has well defined fixed time constraints. Process must be done within the defined con...

Root hints

Asked By: sunilbaglur | Asked On: Jul 8th, 2011

What are root hints?

Answered by: kifill76 on: Sep 28th, 2011

root hints are DNS data store table used in basic terms to locate authoritative dns servers.

Check os errors

Asked By: sunilbaglur | Asked On: Jul 8th, 2011

Which tool is used to check for application and os errors in a server?

Answered by: kifill76 on: Sep 28th, 2011

Within a windows system event logs capture system, applications, a security events by default. Dependent upon error or events captured there is a plethora of tools which can be used to diagnose and gain in-depth analysis. once such common set of tools are sysinternals suite.

What is the difference between synchronization and mutual exclusion?

Asked By: RAVI | Asked On: Jul 15th, 2006

Answered by: Jared Southern on: Sep 23rd, 2011

As I understand it, and I'm just revising it, Conditional synchronisation is the mechanism that allows one to achieve mutual exclusion in a program.

Regards

Jared

Answered by: rakesh trichy on: Oct 11th, 2008

Mutual Exclusion:1. Lock and unlock operations are always performed by the same thread. 2. Thread blocked on semaphore cannot be awakened by a signal. Synchronization: 1. Lock and unlock operations...

Describe different job scheduling in operating systems?

Asked By: Interview Candidate | Asked On: Jul 27th, 2005

Scheduling is the activity of the deciding when process will receive the resources they request.Fcfs: --- fcsfs stands for first come first served. In fcfs the job that has been waiting the longest is served next.Round robin scheduling: ---round robin scheduling is a scheduling method where each process...

Answered by: priya adak on: Sep 20th, 2011

job scheduling also called as long term scheduling....It select the process from these pool and load them into memory for execution..It controls the degree of multiprogramming....If the degree of mult...

Answered by: thukral.rahul on: Jan 12th, 2010

Windows uses priority based pre-emptive CPU / Job scheduling algorithm.

What are the basic functions of an operating system?

Asked By: Interview Candidate | Asked On: Sep 6th, 2005

Operating system controls and coordinates the use of the hardware among the various applications programs for various uses. Operating system acts as resource allocator and manager. Since there are many possibly conflicting requests for resources the operating system must decide which requests are allocated...

Answered by: Rahul on: Aug 31st, 2011

-Interface between User Copmuter and Copmuter Harware.
-create the environment to user can execute the process.
-intermediate between application and hardware.
-control the execution of application program.

Answered by: khan.abul786 on: May 24th, 2010

Basically operating system is a system sofware and a set of instructions which creates a plateform for the user to interact with the computer hardware. It works as an intermediary between the computer...

What is the difference between process and thread?

Asked By: Beena | Asked On: Sep 16th, 2005

Answered by: sneha on: Aug 23rd, 2011

A process is a collection of one or more threads thread is a subset of a process multitasking of two or more process is known as process based multitasking multitasking of two or more threads is kn...

Answered by: crazy19892002 on: Jul 29th, 2009

Process is program that is in execution, but threads are the division of process in multiple task simultaneously.

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