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Operating Systems & RTOS
Operating Systems & RTOS Interview Questions
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What is the difference between a general-purpose OS and a real-time OS (RTOS)?
Operating Systems & RTOS
RTOS Fundamentals
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What is the RTOS tick and how does it affect system behavior?
Operating Systems & RTOS
RTOS Fundamentals
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What is context switching and what happens during one?
Operating Systems & RTOS
RTOS Fundamentals
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What is the difference between a thread and a process?
Operating Systems & RTOS
Threads and Processes
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What is the difference between concurrency and parallelism?
Operating Systems & RTOS
Threads and Processes
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What is the difference between a mutex, a binary semaphore, and a counting semaphore?
Operating Systems & RTOS
Synchronization
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What is priority inversion and how is it solved?
Operating Systems & RTOS
Synchronization
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What is a deadlock and how do you prevent it?
Operating Systems & RTOS
Synchronization
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What is mutual exclusion and what is a critical section?
Operating Systems & RTOS
Synchronization
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What are the design rules for writing an Interrupt Service Routine (ISR)?
Operating Systems & RTOS
Interrupts
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What is the difference between a hardware interrupt and a software interrupt?
Operating Systems & RTOS
Interrupts
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What makes a function reentrant and why does it matter in embedded systems?
Operating Systems & RTOS
Reentrant Functions and volatile
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What does the volatile keyword do and when is it required in embedded C?
Operating Systems & RTOS
Reentrant Functions and volatile
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How is memory managed in an RTOS and why is heap fragmentation a concern?
Operating Systems & RTOS
Memory Management
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What causes stack overflow in an RTOS task and how do you detect it?
Operating Systems & RTOS
Memory Management
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How does a watchdog timer work in an RTOS context?
Operating Systems & RTOS
Watchdog Timers
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What is a spinlock and when is it appropriate to use one?
Operating Systems & RTOS
Spinlocks and Atomic Operations
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What are atomic operations and why do they matter?
Operating Systems & RTOS
Spinlocks and Atomic Operations
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What is the difference between preemptive and cooperative scheduling?
Operating Systems & RTOS
Advanced Topics
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What are common inter-task communication mechanisms in an RTOS?
Operating Systems & RTOS
Advanced Topics
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