1. INTERNATIONAL BURCH UNIVERSITY
DEPARTMENT of
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES
CEN 301
Operating System
Fall Term
Azizah Ibrahim

2. Class Schedule Class Schedule: Monday 9:00-12:00,
Office Hour:Open Door Policy

3. Course Objectives Introduce the fundamentals of Operating System
Identify main module in operating system
Know the basic management of computer hardware resources when program is working
Establish knowledge and understanding of the fundamentals of Operating System Design
Provide current direction in the development of Modern and Contemporary Operating System

4. Textbooks
1. William Stallings, Operating Systems Internals and Design Principles 5th Edition

5. Brief Contents CHAPTER 1 Operating System Overview
CHAPTER 2 Process Description and Control
CHAPTER 3 Threads, SMP and Microkernels
CHAPTER 4 Concurrency: Mutual Exclusion and Synchronization
CHAPTER 5 Concurrency: Deadlock and Starvation
CHAPTER 6 Memory management
MID TERM EXAM
CHAPTER 7 Uniprocessor scheduling
CHAPTER 8 I/O Management and Disk Scheduling
CHAPTER 9 File Management
CHAPTER 10 Security

6. Grading
Midterm 30%
Final %
Project 20%
Attendance/Quiz 10%