CS2013-final-report

Body of Knowledge coverage
KA Knowledge Unit Topics Covered Hours
OS
OS
OS/Overview of
Operating Systems
OS/Operating System
Principles
Overview of OS basics 2
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 3
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
2
SF
SF/Virtualization &
Isolation
Rationale for protection and predictable performance, levels of
indirection, methods for implementing virtual memory and virtual
machines
2
OS OS/Virtual Machines Paging and virtual memory, virtual file systems, virtual file, portable
virtualization, hypervisors
2
OS
OS/Device
Management
Characteristics of serial & parallel devices, abstracting device
differences, direct memory access, recovery from failures
3
PD
PD/Parallelism
Fundamentals
Multiple simultaneous computations; programming constructs for
creating parallelism, communicating, and coordinating
2
PD
PD/Distributed
Systems
Distributed message sending; distributed system and service design 3
OS
OS/Security and
Protection
Overview of system security, policy, access control, protection,
authentication
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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