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Operating System Overview |
- Concept, Main functions, and Components of an OS.
- Computer systems & Operating system structure.
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- Understand the role and structure of an OS.
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Processes and Threads |
- Process model, states, and management.
- Operations on processes, Context switching.
- Introduction to Threads.
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- Grasp the concepts of processes and threads.
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Process Scheduling |
- Process characteristics and scheduling mechanisms.
- Scheduling in batch, interactive, and real-time systems.
- Thread scheduling.
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- Learn how the OS manages CPU time.
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Inter-Process Communication |
- Need for IPC and related issues.
- Shared resource mechanisms (Signal, Pipe, Shared Memory).
- Message passing mechanisms (Socket, RPC, RMI).
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- Understand how processes communicate.
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Process Synchronization |
- Concept of synchronization and the Critical Section problem.
- Solutions: "Busy waiting" and "Sleep and wakeup".
- Classic synchronization problems.
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- Solve problems of concurrent resource access.
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Deadlock |
- Concept and necessary conditions for deadlock.
- Resource allocation graph.
- Methods for handling deadlock (prevention, avoidance, detection).
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- Understand and handle deadlock situations.
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File System |
- General overview of files and file systems.
- Low-level file implementation, Directory system.
- Shared file protection, Semantic consistency, Error recovery.
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- Learn how data is stored and managed.
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Memory Management |
- Basic concepts of memory management.
- Continuous allocation model (Linker Loader, Base & Limit).
- Non-continuous allocation model (Paging, Segmentation).
- Virtual Memory.
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- Understand how the OS manages main memory.
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