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Technical FundamentalsStart here. 44 questions · ~352 min
Balancing Memory and PerformanceHard
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Tests how candidates trade SRAM, flash, CPU time, latency, determinism, and energy under embedded-system constraints.

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Threads vs ProcessesMedium
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Compare thread and process isolation, memory sharing, communication cost, and practical selection criteria.

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Handling Race ConditionsHard
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Tests how to identify shared-state races and choose mutexes, atomics, memory ordering, and interrupt-safe synchronization in embedded systems.

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Optimizing PySpark JobsHard
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Tests practical PySpark optimization across execution plans, shuffles, partitions, joins, caching, and memory.

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Trade-offs in Data StructuresHard
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Compare data structures by access patterns, cache behavior, memory cost, and concurrency when optimizing throughput.

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Handle Spark Skew and MemoryHard
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Tests how to diagnose Spark data skew and prevent executor or driver memory failures at scale.

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Bit Manipulation for HardwareHard
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Tests how masks, shifts, volatile access, and read-modify-write operations make hardware register code efficient and reliable.

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Avoiding Deadlocks in JavaHard
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Evaluate Java concurrency design choices that prevent deadlocks while reducing lock contention and executor saturation.

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