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
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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: Read it; lot of important information you ought to know about operating system
Ch. 2: up to section 2.3;
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: up to 9.4
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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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