Andy Wang Operating Systems COP 4610 / CGS 5765 Final Review Andy Wang Operating Systems COP 4610 / CGS 5765

Coverage Total: 72 points; 1 min / point 50 points based on lectures 32-43, assignment 9, and project 3 22 points for everything 11 points based on your ability to apply various principles learned in the class

File Systems and Disk Management Definitions File File header

File Systems and Disk Management Short answers File system components Disk management, naming, protection, reliability Ways to access a file Sequential, random, content-based File usage patterns

File Systems and Disk Management Short answers Disk allocation policies Contiguous, link-list, segment-based, indexed, multilevel indexed, hashed

Naming and Directories Definitions i_node Directory Name collisions Absolute path name Path resolution

Naming and Directories Short answers Different ways to organize a name space Flat name space Hierarchical name space Relational name space Contextual naming Content-based naming

Transactions and Reliability Definitions Metadata fsck Log Two-phase locking Striping

Transactions and Reliability Short answers Characteristics of a transaction RAID levels

Protection and Security Definitions Security Protection Access matrix Access control list Capability list

Protection and Security Short answers Three goals of security confidentiality, data integrity, system availability Three security components authentication, authorization, enforcement Kerberos protocol Public key encryption

Protection and Security Short answers Classes of security problems Eavesdropping, abuse of privilege, imposter, Trojan horse, salami attack, logic bomb, denial-of-service attacks

Network Protocols Definitions Protocols Port Byzantine uncertainty Two-phase commit

Network Protocols Short answers Internet protocol Unreliable data protocol Transmission control protocol

Networks and Distributed Systems Definitions Distributed systems Network Packet Arbitration Routing

Networks and Distributed Systems Short answers Ethernet arbitration techniques carrier sensing, collision detection, adaptive randomized waiting Point-to-point vs. broadcast network

RPC and Distributed FS Definitions Location transparency Microkernel operating systems Procedure stubs

RPC and Distributed FS Short answers Advantages of using RPC for IPC Design principles of NFS NFS vs. AFS xFS design principles

Project 3 Short answers Steps to obtain the content of a FAT entry

Everything CPU-IO scheduling schemes Deadlock resolution techniques Demand paging algorithms Booting sequence Process creation Address translation schemes

Some Exam-taking Techniques Use bullets instead of complete sentences State what you do know and why existing methods do not work