Advanced
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What is MUTEX ? ANS : Mutex is a program object that allows multiple program threads to share the same resource, such as file access, but not simultaneously. When a program is started a mutex is creat...
Advanced
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The following questions are used for screening the candidates during the first interview. The questions apply mostly to fresh college grads pursuing an engineering career at Intel. 1. Have you studied...
Advanced
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Some of the Best Hardware Questions Put together by FreshersHome.com. With the Help of Sharpened.net. Is it possible to increase the number of available PCI slots on my computer? How can I print to a ...
Intermediate
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Following are Hardware design interview questions: Reply if you have any answers. 1. Give two ways of converting a two input NAND gate to an inverter 2. Given a circuit, draw its exact timing response...
Advanced
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The Following are Embedded systems interview questions, Please do go through them, if you have answers do reply: 1. Can structures be passed to the functions by value? 2. Why cannot arrays be passed b...
Intermediate
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Why do we gradually increase the size of inverters in buffer design? Why not give the output of a circuit to one large inverter? Give the logic expression for an AOI gate. Draw its transistor level eq...
Advanced
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Following are Computer architecture and design interview questions: Reply if you have any answers. 1. What is pipelining? 2. What are the five stages in a DLX pipeline? 3. For a pipeline with ‘n’ stag...
Medium
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RAID can improve availability and tolerate specific disk failures, depending on the level, but it usually reproduces accidental deletion, corrupted writes, and malicious changes across the array. It d...
Easy
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SATA SSDs use the SATA interface and typically the AHCI command model, while NVMe SSDs use the NVMe protocol, commonly over PCIe. NVMe supports greater parallelism and can offer higher throughput and ...
Medium
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Error-correcting memory stores redundant information that allows supported hardware to detect and correct certain memory errors. The exact coverage depends on the implementation; a common scheme corre...
Easy
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RAM provides fast working memory for running programs and is ordinarily volatile, so its contents are lost when power is removed. Persistent storage such as an SSD retains data without power and gener...
Medium
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Check monitor power, input selection, cable, and the intended video output before assuming a failed motherboard. Confirm whether the system completes POST using documented lights, beep codes, or diagn...
Medium
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Monitor temperature, clock frequency, utilization, power limits, and workload behavior over time. Thermal throttling can show high temperatures accompanied by reduced clocks and declining sustained pe...