CS3013 Final Exam Topic Outline

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

• Parallel Systems and Threads
  • Concepts
  • Implementation
• Memory Management
  • Simple
  • Paging
    • Page Tables
    • Associative Registers
    • Multilevel Paging
    • Inverted Page Tables
  • Segmentation
• Virtual Memory
  • Swapping and Demand Paging
  • Page Faults
  • Page Replacement Algorithms
  • Thrashing
  • Paging Tradeoffs
• I/O Devices
  • Block vs. Character
  • Disks
    • Scheduling
• Project 2 - Hidden Processes
  • Adding system calls
  • System call implementation
    • sys_hide(), sys_hide(), hide_init()
    • root.c modification
    • Makefile modifications
  • Adding /proc modules
  • Scan module implementation
• Project 3 - Remote Shell
  • Sockets
    • Connection setup
    • Send and receive
  • Server
  • Client
  • fork() and exec() and use in shell

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