Operating Systems - Syllabus

This topic covers the definition and explanation of what an operating system is, its role, and its importance in computer systems.

This topic explores the two different perspectives of an operating system: the user view and the system view.

This topic discusses the historical development and evolution of operating systems, from early mainframe systems to modern distributed systems.

This topic covers the different types of operating systems, including single-user, multi-user, multi-tasking, and real-time systems.

This topic explains the concept of system calls, which are interfaces between the operating system and application programs.

This topic discusses how operating systems handle system calls, including the mechanisms and techniques used to manage system calls.

This topic covers the different types of system programs, including utility programs, language translators, and system utilities.

This topic explores the internal structure of operating systems, including the kernel, device drivers, and system libraries.

This topic explains the role of the shell in operating systems, including its functions and features.

This topic discusses the concept of open-source operating systems, including their advantages, disadvantages, and examples.

This topic covers various project management techniques used to plan, organize, and control projects. It includes developing project management plans and implementing, monitoring, and controlling projects.

This topic focuses on creating an environment that fosters collaboration and teamwork. It includes communications planning, organizing and conducting effective meetings, and other collaborative development strategies.

Methods of communication between processes, including race conditions and critical sections.

Techniques for achieving mutual exclusion, including busy waiting, sleep and wakeup, semaphores, monitors, and message passing.

Solutions to classic inter-process communication problems, including producer-consumer, sleeping barber, and dining philosopher problems.

Goals and techniques for scheduling processes, including batch, interactive, and real-time systems.

This topic covers various project management techniques used to plan, organize, and control projects. It includes developing project management plans and implementing, monitoring, and controlling projects.

This topic focuses on creating an environment that fosters collaboration and teamwork. It includes communications planning, organizing and conducting effective meetings, and other collaborative development strategies.

Methods of communication between processes, including race conditions and critical sections.

Techniques for achieving mutual exclusion, including busy waiting, sleep and wakeup, semaphores, monitors, and message passing.

Solutions to classic inter-process communication problems, including producer-consumer, sleeping barber, and dining philosopher problems.

Goals and techniques for scheduling processes, including batch, interactive, and real-time systems.

This topic covers deadlock prevention techniques, which ensure that deadlocks cannot occur by preventing one of the necessary conditions for deadlock.

This topic discusses deadlock avoidance techniques, which ensure that the system will never enter a deadlock state.

This topic explains deadlock detection algorithms, which are used to detect when a deadlock has occurred in a system.

This topic covers recovery techniques for deadlocks, including preemption and rollback.

The organization of memory in a computer system, including main memory, RAM, ROM, and auxiliary memory. This topic covers the memory address map and connection to the CPU.

The primary storage for data and program instructions in a computer system, including RAM and ROM chips.

A type of memory that uses hardware organization and match logic to perform read and write operations.

A small, fast memory that stores frequently accessed data, using locality of reference and mapping to improve performance.

Secondary storage devices, including magnetic disks and magnetic tapes, used to store data and programs when not in use by the CPU.

Understanding the concept of a file and its importance in C programming.

Opening, closing, naming, and basic operations on files in C.

Reading data from and writing data to a file in C, including functions such as fgetc(), fputc(), fprintf(), and fscanf().

Using functions ftell(), fseek(), and rewind() to access and manipulate file pointers in C.

This topic covers the fundamentals of designing databases, including the relational database model, normalization, and transforming E-R diagrams into relations.

This topic focuses on designing forms and reports, including formatting and assessing usability to create effective user interfaces.

This topic explores the design of interfaces and dialogues, including interaction methods and devices, and designing interfaces and dialogues in graphical environments.

Addressing common challenges and considerations that arise during the implementation phase of software development.

Exploring the principles, benefits, and best practices of open-source software development.

Methods for estimating missing values in experimental designs, including CRD and RBD.

Discussion of the benefits and drawbacks of Completely Randomized Design (CRD) and Randomized Block Design (RBD).

A type of experimental design that accounts for two blocking factors to reduce variability.

Methods for analyzing data from a Latin Square Design (LSD) experiment.

Overview of the development and evolution of the Linux operating system.

Understanding kernel modules, their types, and their role in extending Linux kernel functionality.

Managing processes in Linux, including process creation, synchronization, and termination.

Linux scheduling algorithms and their role in allocating system resources to processes.

Methods and mechanisms for communication between processes in Linux.

Linux memory management techniques, including memory allocation, deallocation, and protection.

Different file system management approaches used in Linux, including organization and structure.

Linux device management approaches, including device drivers and hardware interaction.