Question 1

Given only survey responses where each student reports the size of their own room, and with no other information, how would you estimate the average room size?

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Question 2

Given two dates, write a function to count the number of days between them.

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Question 3

What are the stages of a pipeline processor?

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Question 4

What are the differences between a vector and a linked list?

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Question 5

Given a race track with 5 lanes, 25 bunnies, and no timer, how many races are required to determine the top 3 fastest bunnies?

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Question 6

How do you support multi-threading without kernel involvement?

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Question 7

Explain, at the hardware level, what a SIGSEGV (segmentation fault) is, what causes it, and how it is generated.

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Question 8

Give an algorithm to find the k-th largest element in an unsorted vector of integers.

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Question 9

How do you implement a multiplexer in an FPGA?

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