Apple Interview Question for Software Engineer / Developers






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Congestion

- Anonymous January 27, 2012 | Flag Reply
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an example of a deadlock could be ..when two cars approach stop sign and neither of them move until the other moves..
Starvation is the term that comes to mind for the second part

- Fig Pucker March 31, 2010 | Flag Reply
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"Bottleneck" came to mind first for second part.

- Anonymous November 18, 2010 | Flag Reply
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A simple example of deadlock in real world would be of any situation which is a 'Catch 22' situation, i.e. The only way to leave a mental institution would be if the person acknowledges that he is mentally unstable, and if the person is mentally unstable then he needs treatment and cannot leave the mental institution.

One way, in computer science terms the situation can be described is a typical Network bandwidth exhaustion causing slow bit-rate.

- Midnight December 02, 2010 | Flag Reply
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1) Deadlock is a system state that two or more coordinating entities cannot change into next state due to a circular wait among themselves.
2) Two men at a narrow door, one in & one out, but no one is willing to yield.
3) Starvation.

- jzhu May 20, 2012 | Flag Reply
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dead lock can be explained as a situation where 2 objects compete for the same address space in memory

Circular dependency is can be attributed as deadlock

- test June 05, 2012 | Flag Reply


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