VMware Software Interview Questions and Answers

Measure the height of a room using a thread.

• Tie one end of the thread to a known height point, such as a door handle.

• Hold the other end of the thread and let it hang down to the floor.

• Mark the point where the thread touches the floor.

• Repeat the process at different points in the room to get multiple measurements.

• Take the average of the measurements to estimate the height of the room.

To print a linked list in reverse order, we can use recursion or a stack data structure.

• Recursion: Traverse the linked list recursively until the end, then print the current node.

• Stack: Traverse the linked list and push each node onto a stack. Then pop and print the nodes from the stack.

Process scheduling is the method by which the operating system decides the order in which processes are executed.

• Process scheduling determines the fairness and efficiency of resource allocation.

• Different scheduling algorithms prioritize different factors such as CPU utilization, response time, and throughput.

• Examples of scheduling algorithms include First-Come, First-Served (FCFS), Round Robin, and Shortest Job Next (SJN).

Deadlock is a situation in which two or more processes are unable to proceed because each is waiting for the other to release a resource.

• Deadlock occurs when two or more processes are stuck in a circular wait.

• Four necessary conditions for deadlock are mutual exclusion, hold and wait, no preemption, and circular wait.

• Examples of deadlock prevention techniques include resource allocation graphs and bankers' algorithm.

• Deadlock avoidance techniques involve resource scheduling alg...read more

Dijkstra algorithm is a graph search algorithm that finds the shortest path between nodes in a weighted graph.

• Dijkstra algorithm uses a priority queue to select the node with the smallest distance from the source node.

• It maintains a distance array to keep track of the shortest distance from the source node to each node in the graph.

• The algorithm iteratively selects the node with the smallest distance and updates the distances of its neighboring nodes.

• It continues until all no...read more