1. Midterm Review
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2. Exam Date March 19, 2008 Please bring This is a closed book exam.
Pencils, pens and erasers.
This is a closed book exam.
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3. Topics Project 1 Operating systems structure
Processes and thread: description and control
CPU Scheduling
Mutual Exclusion, Synchronization and Inter-Process Communication models
Memory management
Class notes
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4. Format 5 major questions 20(+/-5) points each;
Each question may have many subsections.
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5. Chapters Ch. 1: Introduction: 1.1, 1.5, 1.6
Ch. 2: Processes and threads: 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5
Ch.3: Memory Management: 3.3, 3.4, 3.5
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6. Tentative Question Topics
Process Scheduling (1)
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)
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