You need to have your concepts clear if you have to succeed in such an interview. In the technical part, there are various types of questions as given below.
Hardware and Software Design Interview:
Do you think DOS is a real time OS?
Which data structure can be used for storage of processes information into a real time operating system?
Define friend.
What do you know about a Turing machine?
Explain Finite Automata.
Number of bytes required for long, short, int, char in DOS and UNIX OS
How many processors does a Sparc microprocessor have? and pentium?
Explain unit testing and integration testing.
RISC. When is it fast and when not?
What do you understand by atomicity?
Give examples of some real time Operating systems OS
Interview Questions for Hardware & Software Design:
Explain the different models – prototype model and waterfall model.
What do you understand by a real time system.
Explain the points of difference and compare RISC and CISC.
Explain the following terms – binary search, hashing, traversal.
Make a recursive program to determine factorial in C++ language.
What memory is required by char and int?
Make a program to determine the number of 1′s in a binary number
Explain the kernel and shell.
What is the use of indexing while dealing with databases?
Can a program be run both on unix and dos? how do we make it portable on both OS?
Why can’t we see anything on monitor’s screen while starting up the computer?
Hardware and software design technical interview questions for software, programming, hardware or maintenance job for engineers and diploma holders
well good collections of questions
and very tricky question