Networking, Socket Programming, Inter-Process
Communication
1. User(s) are complaining of delays when using the
network. What would you do?
2. What are some of the problems associated with
operating a switched LAN?
3. Name some of the ways of combining TCP/IP traffic
and SNA traffic over the same link.
4. What sort of cabling is suitable for Fast Ethernet
protocols?
5. What is a Class D IP address?
6. Why do I sometimes lose a server's address when
using more than one server?
7. What is Firewall?
8. How do I monitor the activity of sockets?
9. How would I put my socket in non-blocking mode?
10. What are RAW sockets?
11. What is the role of TCP protocol and IP protocol.
12. What is UDP?
13. How can I make my server a daemon?
14. How should I choose a port number for my server?
15. Layers in TCP/IP
16. How can I be sure that a UDP message is received?
17. How to get IP header of a UDP message
18. Writing UDP/SOCK_DGRAM applications
19. How many bytes in an IPX network address?
20. What is the difference between MUTEX and
Semaphore?
21. What is priority inversion?
22. Different Solutions to dining philosophers
problem.
23. What is a message queue?
24. Questions on Shared Memory.
25. What is DHCP?
26. Working of ping, telnet, gopher.
27. Can I connect two computers to internet using same
line ?

Operating Systems
1. What is MUTEX ?
2. What isthe difference between a 'thread' and a
'process'?
3. What is INODE?
4. Explain the working of Virtual Memory.
5. How does Windows NT supports Multitasking?
6. Explain the Unix Kernel.
7. What is Concurrency? Expain with example Deadlock
and Starvation.
8. What are your solution strategies for "Dining
Philosophers Problem" ?
9. Explain Memory Partitioning, Paging, Segmentation.
10. Explain Scheduling.
11. Operating System Security.
12. What is Semaphore?
13. Explain the following file systems : NTFS,
Macintosh(HPFS), FAT .
14. What are the different process states?
15. What is Marshalling?
16. Define and explain COM?
17. What is Marshalling?
18. Difference - Loading and Linking ?