CS502 Mid-Semester Exam Topic Outline

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

• Introduction
  • History
  • Structure
  • Concepts
    • Processes
    • Shells
    • Files
    • System Calls
• Processes
  • Implementation
  • Scheduling
  • Synchronization
• Inter Process Communication / Synchronization
  • Monitors
  • Conditional Critical Regions
  • Software Signals
  • Message Passing
• Memory Management
  • Simple
  • Variable and Fixed Partitions
  • Swapping
  • Paging
    • Page Tables
    • Associative Registers
    • Multilevel Paging
    • Inverted Page Tables
  • Segmentation
• Threads
  • Concept
  • Motivation
• Multiprocessor OS
  • Concepts
  • Implementation
• A Simple Operating System
  • CreateProcessSysProc()
  • Dispatcher()
  • ProgramErrorInterruptHandler()
  • TimerInterruptHandler()
  • SystemCallInterruptHandler()
  • Changes needed for mulitprocessor OS

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