CS 3204: Operating Systems - Spring 2003

Final Exam topics


The topics from which you might expect questions for the final exam are given below. The topics in bold will be emphasized in the final exam.
  1. Introduction
  2. Using the OS
  3. OS organization
  4. Computer Organization
  5. Device Management
  6. Process Management
  7. Process Scheduling
  8. Process Synchronization
  9. Deadlocks
    • Avoidance
    • Prevention
    • Detection and Recovery
  10. Memory Management
    • Single partition
    • Overlays
    • Fixed partitioning
    • Dynamic partitioning
    • Paging
    • Demand Paging
    • Segmentation
    • Segmentation with paging
  11. File systems
    • User view of files, directories, etc.
    • File system implementation
    • Disk space management
    • File system performance

© Mir Farooq Ali, 2003.