1. Sarah Diesburg Operating Systems COP 4610
Exam Review
Sarah Diesburg
Operating Systems
COP 4610

2. Coverage Total: 50 points; 1 min / point
46 points based on lectures 17-25, assignments 5-7 and project 2
6 points based on your ability to apply various principles learned in the class
(2 extra bonus points)

3. Monitors, Condition Variables, and Readers-Writers
Definitions
Monitor
Lock
Condition variable

4. Monitors, Condition Variables, and Readers-Writers
Short answers
Hoare vs. Mesa monitors
Correct a broken solution (readers-writers)
Semaphore vs. monitors

5. Deadlocks
Definitions
Deadlock
Starvation
Checkpointing

6. Deadlocks Short answers
Correct a broken solution (dining philosophers)
Four conditions for deadlocks
Deadlock prevention techniques
Banker’s algorithm

7. Memory Protection
Definitions
Interprocess communication
System call

8. Memory Protection Short answers Hardware-supported mechanisms
Software-supported mechanisms
Steps to switch between kernel and user modes
Context switching between processes vs. threads

9. Address Translation Definitions Segment External fragmentation
Internal fragmentation
Translation lookaside buffers (abbreviated TLB)

10. Address Translation Short answers Base-and-bound translation
Segmentation-based translation
Paging-based translation
Segmented-paging translation
Paged page tables

11. Caching and TLBs Definition Caching Temporal locality Spatial locality
Cache pollution
Translation lookaside buffer

12. Caching and TLBs Short answers Design issues of caching
Four types of cache misses
Ways to perform TLB lookups
Write-through vs. write-back policies
Effective access time

13. Demand Paged Virtual Memory
Definitions
Demand paging
Page fault
Belady’s anomaly
Thrashing
Working set

14. Demand Paged Virtual Memory
Short answers
Steps to carry out a page fault
Page replacement policies
4 state bits for a page table entry

15. Device Management Definitions Polling/interrupts/DMA/double buffering
Device controller/device driver
Memory-mapped I/O
Disk-related terms
Disk measurement metrics

16. Device Management Short answers Categories of I/O devices
Ways to access a device
Disk arm scheduling policies
Latency and bandwidth computations

17. Project 2 Definition Programming Kernel module
Steps to add a system call