CS502 Final Exam Topic Outline

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

• Virtual Memory
  • Page faults
  • Page replacement algorithms
  • Thrashing
  • Paging tradeoffs
  • WinNT specifics
  • Linux specifics
• File Systems
  • Concepts
  • Implementation
    • Files
    • Directories
    • Storing files (aliases)
  • Disk management
    • Blocks
    • Partitions
  • Linux specifics
  • WinNT specifics
• I/O Devices
  • Hardware
  • Software
  • Disks
    • Scheduling
  • Clocks
• Project 3: Macro Shell
  • Sockets
    • Connection setup
    • Send and receive
  • Server
  • Client

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