Operating Systems Study Guide

K-State at Salina Operating Systems Class

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• Exam 2 - Process Management is available.
• The Memory Management quiz is also available on K-State Online.

Contents:

• 1. Introduction to Operating Systems
  • 1.1. Basic Operating System Concepts
  • 1.2. History of Operating Systems
  • 1.3. Current Operating Systems Research Topics
  • 1.4. Computer Architecture
  • 1.5. Basics of How Operating Systems Work
  • 1.6. Parts of an Operating System
  • 1.7. Operating-System Design and Implementation
  • 1.8. Operating-System Structure
  • 1.9. System Boot
  • 1.10. The Operating System Environment
  • 1.11. User Interface
  • 1.12. System Calls
  • 1.13. System Programs
• 2. Processes Management
  • 2.1. Understanding Processes
  • 2.2. The Process Manager’s Job
  • 2.3. The Process Scheduler
• 3. Interprocess Communication and Synchronization
  • 3.1. Interprocess Communication
  • 3.2. Synchronization Facilities
  • 3.3. Classic Synchronization Problems
• 4. Memory Management
  • 4.1. Memory Management Hardware
  • 4.2. Legacy Memory Management Schemes
  • 4.3. Paged Memory Management
  • 4.4. Virtual Memory Management
  • 4.5. Memory Management in Modern Operating Systems
• 5. File System Management
  • 5.1. File System Abstractions
  • 5.2. A File
  • 5.3. Directories and File System Tables
  • 5.4. File System Services
  • 5.5. File System Standards
  • 5.6. File System Errors
  • 5.7. Disk Scheduling
• 6. Device Management
  • 6.1. Device Drivers
  • 6.2. Waiting for I/O
  • 6.3. Blocking and Nonblocking I/O
  • 6.4. The Top and Bottom Halves of Drivers
  • 6.5. Device Driver Implementation
  • 6.6. Using Buffers to Improve Performance
• 7. Quick Review
  • 7.1. Basic Operating System Concepts
  • 7.2. Process Management
  • 7.3. Synchronization
  • 7.4. Memory Management
  • 7.5. File Management
• 8. Glossary
• 9. Home Work and Lab Assignments
  • 9.1. Homework - Introduction Questions
  • 9.2. Homework - Analysis of Schedulers
  • 9.3. Lab 1 - Windows Process Creation Monitoring
  • 9.4. Lab - Multithreaded Programming - Matrix Multiplication
  • 9.5. Lab 2 - Multithreaded Programming and Synchronization
  • 9.6. Homework - Memory Management
  • 9.7. Lab 3 - Linux Kernel Modules
  • 9.8. Lab 4 - Linux Device Drivers
• 10. Take Home Essay Exams
  • 10.1. Exam 1 - Introduction
  • 10.2. Exam 2 - Process Management
  • 10.3. Exam 3 - IPC, Synchronization and Memory Management

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page