CS2013-final-report

Assignment Five: Memory management
Assignment Six: File systems and HDD scheduling
Assignment Seven: Network support and distributed systems
Body of Knowledge coverage
KA Knowledge Unit Topics Covered Hours
OS OS/Overview of Operating Systems High-level overview of all topics 2
OS OS/Operating System Principles Processes, process control, threads. 2
OS OS/Scheduling and Dispatch Preemptive, non-preemptive scheduling, schedulers and
policies, real-time scheduling
3
SF
SF/Resource Allocation and
Scheduling
Kinds of scheduling 2
OS OS/Concurrency Exclusion and synchronization; deadlock 3
OS OS/Memory Management Memory management, working sets and thrashing;
caching
OS OS/File Systems Files (metadata, operations, organization, etc.);
standard implementation techniques; file system
partitioning; virtual file systems; memory mapped files,
journaling and log structured file systems
SF SF/Virtualization & Isolation Rationale for protection and predictable performance,
levels of indirection, methods for implementing virtual
memory and virtual machines
OS OS/Virtual Machines Paging and virtual memory, virtual file systems, virtual
file, portable virtualization, hypervisors
OS OS/Device Management Characteristics of serial & parallel devices, abstracting
device differences, direct memory access, recovery
from failures
PD PD/Parallelism Fundamentals Multiple simultaneous computations; programming
constructs for creating parallelism, communicating, and
coordinating;
PD PD/Distributed Systems Distributed message sending; distributed system and
service design;
OS OS/Security and Protection Overview of system security, policy, access control,
protection, authentication
3
2
2
2
3
2
3
2
OS
OS/Real Time and Embedded
Systems
Memory/disk management requirements in real-time
systems; failures, risks, recovery; special concerns in
real-time systems
2
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