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Q168: What is the difference between a latch and a flip flop?
tags: microsoft intel amd nvidia hw comparch architecture hardware

Q236: What does the sticky bit do on a directory?
tags: google unix

Q520: Write some code to find all permutations of the letters in a particular string.
tags: google sw

Q232: What do you do if postfix displays an error about use when you try to start it?
tags: google shell programming unix

Q136: What are digital signatures and smart cards?
tags: microsoft sun cisco security networking

Q92: What is a far pointer (in DOS)
tags: microsoft sw programming

Q515: Order the functions in order of their asymptotic performance * 2^n * n^Googol ( 10^100) * n! * n^n
tags: google

Q201: What is the difference between deep copy and shallow copy? Which of the two does Object.clone() implement?
tags: ebay sw java

Q43: Give a fast way to multiply a number by 7.
tags: microsoft sw programming

Q34: Give a one-line C expression to test whether a number is a power of 2. [No loops allowed - it is a simple test.]
tags: microsoft sw programming

Q219: Given a set of KEY->VALUE pairs such that each KEY is unique, describe a method of storing these pairs on disk, and a method for accessing the corresponding VALUE given a KEY. Assume that RAM is fixed at 1gb and the set of pairs requires 40gb. HINT: we are trying to minimize page-transfers
tags: google software programming algorithm database

Q511: How can you convert number nine to number six with a single stroke of pen.
tags: microsoft Puzzle

Q512: How do I change my default e-mail program from Outlook to Outlook Express?
tags: microsoft sw

Q557: You have five pirates, ranked from 5 to 1 in descending order. The top pirate has the right to propose how 100 gold coins should be divided among them. But the others get to vote on his plan, and if fewer than half agree with him, he gets killed. How should he allocate the gold in order to maximize his share but live to enjoy it
tags: google microsoft puzzle

Q500: Given an N x M two dimensional array of integers where all rows and columns are sorted in ascending order, write a function that can determine if a certain value exists in the array.
tags: microsoft programming data structures

Q584: How does dynamic recompilation work in Resin (or any other Java servlet container)
tags: amazon sw

Q22: What is your ideal working environment.
tags: microsoft general

Q165: About hardware and software interrupts.
tags: microsoft intel amd nvidia hw comparch architecture hardware

Q109: struct n { int data; struct n* next}node; node *c,*t; c->data = 10; t->next = null; *c = *t; what is the effect of the last statement?
tags: microsoft sw programming

Q125: What is the simples way to check if the sum of two unsigned integers has resulted in an overflow.
tags: microsoft sw programming

Q559: Write a C program which measures the the speed of a context switch on a UNIX/Linux system
tags: google sw unix os

Q141: How is garbage collection done in java?
tags: microsoft sw programming java

Q162: How do you improve the cache performance.
tags: microsoft intel amd nvidia hw comparch architecture hardware

Q149: What is pipelining?
tags: microsoft intel amd nvidia hw comparch architecture hardware

Q51: Given two strings S1 and S2. Delete from S2 all those characters which occur in S1 also and finally create a clean S2 with the relevant characters deleted.
tags: microsoft sw programming

Q555: If the probability of observing a car in 30 minutes on a highway is 0.95, what is the probability of observing a car in 10 minutes (assuming constant default probability)
tags: google math puzzle

Q513: Given a 2-d int array in which the values WILL ALWAYS increase in both directions ie. a[i][n+1]>a[i][n] & a[z+1][y] > a[z][y]. Write a function to find whether a value is within this 2-d array in the fastest way possible.
tags: Microsoft software/sw C

Q216: How would you find out if a machine's stack grows up or down in memory?
tags: google software programming architecture

Q121: How do we test most simply if an unsigned integer is a power of two?
tags: microsoft sw programming

Q97: Write an efficient C code for tr program. tr has two command line arguments. They both are strings of same length. tr reads an input file, replaces each character in the first string with the corresponding character in the second string. eg. tr abc xyz replaces all a by x, b by y and so on.
tags: microsoft sw programming

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