CS3013 Final Exam Topic Outline

Here is an outline of the topics that might be on the final exam:

• Memory Management
  • Simple
  • Object Modules
  • Linking and Loading
  • Variable and Fixed Partitions
  • Swapping
  • Paging
    • Page Tables
    • Associative Registers
    • Multilevel Paging
    • Inverted Page Tables
  • Segmentation
  • WinNT specifics
  • Linux specifics
• Virtual Memory
  • Page faults
  • Page replacement algorithms
  • Thrashing
  • Paging tradeoffs
  • WinNT specifics
  • Linux specifics
• Simple Operating System
  • semaphore.c() (in relation to events)
• File Systems
  • Basic File Implementation
• I/O Devices
  • Device independent layer
  • Device driver
  • Interrupt handler
• Software interrupts
  • signal()
  • wait()
• Project 2
  • Adding system calls
  • Events
    • System calls
    • Internal structures
    • Functionality
  • Producer/Consumer

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