Midterm Review CSE4/521 B.Ramamurthy 5/5/2019 B.Ramamurthy

Exam Date March 4, 2009 Please bring This is a closed book exam. Pencils, pens and erasers. This is a closed book exam. 5/5/2019 B.Ramamurthy

Topics Project 1 Operating systems structure Processes and thread: description and control Process Scheduling Mutual Exclusion, Synchronization and Inter-Process Communication models Memory management Class notes 5/5/2019 B.Ramamurthy

Format 5 major questions 20(+/-5) points each; Each question may have many subsections. 5/5/2019 B.Ramamurthy

Chapters Ch. 1: Read it; lot of important information you ought to know about operating system Ch. 2: up to section 2.4 Ch.3: up to 3.5 Ch. 4: up to 4.4 Ch. 5: up to 5.3 Ch. 6: up to 6.7 Ch. 8: up to 8.5 Ch.9 Class notes 5/5/2019 B.Ramamurthy

Tentative Question Topics Process Scheduling (1) : See p.191, Fig.5.3 prediction of next CPU burst IPC models: Producer/Consumer, Reader/writer, etc. (1) Process description and control + synchronization primitives such as semaphores (1) Virtual memory: Address translation, page replacement policies (2) 5/5/2019 B.Ramamurthy