CS3013 Final Exam Topic Outline

The final exam is not cummulative. It covers everything from the mid-term onward. Here is an outline of the topics that were covered:

• Memory Management
  • Simple
  • 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
• Threads
  • Concepts
  • Tradeoffs
• Project 2 - Pong
  • System Calls
    • semcreate(), semattach()
    • shmcreate(), shmattach()
  • Implementation issues
    • synchronization of processes
    • moving ball, moving paddles, keeping score...
• Project 3 - Electronic Handball
  • Client - Server issues
  • Socket wrapper calls
    • sockcreate()
    • sockaccept()
    • sockconnect()
  • Implementation issues
    • synchronization of client and server
• Project 4 - Threaded Client/Server
  • Server threading
  • Pthreads library
    • pthread_create_thread()
    • pthread_destroy_thread()
    • pthread_mutex_init()
    • pthread_mutex_lock()
    • pthread_mutex_unlock()
    • pthread_mutex_destroy()

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