Operating System 101

Operating System 101

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Operating System Overview:

â€¢ What is an Operating System?
â€¢ Operating System Services
â€¢ Evolution of Operating System

Process in Operating System:

â€¢ Process Introduction
â€¢ Process state
â€¢ Process Control Block
â€¢ Context Switch
â€¢ Operations on Processes
â€¢ Scheduling Queues

Scheduling in Operating System:

â€¢ What is Scheduling?
â€¢ Schedulers
â€¢ Criteria for CPU Scheduling Algorithm
â€¢ Non-Preemptive Vs. Preemptive Scheduling
â€¢ Types of Scheduling Algorithms

Scheduling Algorithm I:

â€¢ First Come First Serve
â€¢ Shortest Job First
â€¢ Shortest Remaining Time First
â€¢ What is Priority?
â€¢ Non-preemptive Priority Scheduling
â€¢ Preemptive Priority Scheduling

Scheduling Algorithm II:

â€¢ Round Robin Scheduling
â€¢ Multiprocessor Scheduling
â€¢ Time Sharing Multiprocessor Scheduling
â€¢ Space Sharing Scheduling
â€¢ Gang Scheduling

Threads in Operating System:

â€¢ What is a Thread?
â€¢ User level Thread
â€¢ Kernel level threads
â€¢ Differences and Similarities between Threads and Processes
â€¢ Inter-process communication
â€¢ Message-Passing System

Process Synchronization I:

â€¢ Process Synchronization
â€¢ How process synchronization is achieved?
â€¢ Critical Section Problem
â€¢ Solution to Critical Section Problem
â€¢ Two Process Solutions
â€¢ Semaphore
â€¢ Binary Semaphore
â€¢ Classic Problems of Synchronization

Process Synchronization II:

â€¢ Bounded Buffer Producer-consumer Problem
â€¢ The Readers- Writers Problem
â€¢ The Dining-Philosophers Problem

Deadlock in Operating System I:

â€¢ Deadlock
â€¢ Necessary Conditions
â€¢ Resource-Allocation Graph
â€¢ Methods for Handling Deadlocks
â€¢ Deadlock Avoidance
â€¢ Banker's Algorithm

Deadlock in Operating System II:

â€¢ Example of Bankers Algorithm
â€¢ Deadlock Detection
â€¢ Detection Algorithm
â€¢ Example of Detection Algorithm
â€¢ Recovery from Deadlock

Memory Management I:

â€¢ Memory Management
â€¢ Physical and Logical address
â€¢ Overlays
â€¢ Swapping
â€¢ Contiguous Memory Allocation
â€¢ Memory Allocation Method

Memory Management II:

â€¢ Sample Problem on Memory Allocation
â€¢ Paging
â€¢ Segmentation
â€¢ Comparison between Paging and Segmentation

Virtual Memory and Page Replacement:

â€¢ Virtual Memory
â€¢ Demand Paging
â€¢ Page Fault
â€¢ Page Replacement Technique
â€¢ FIFO
â€¢ Optimal Page Replacement Algorithm
â€¢ LRU Page Replacement
â€¢ Thrashing

File System:

â€¢ File concept
â€¢ File Attributes
â€¢ File Operations
â€¢ Common File Types
â€¢ File Access Methods
â€¢ File Allocation Methods

Disk Scheduling:

â€¢ Disk Scheduling
â€¢ First Come-First Serve (FCFS)
â€¢ Shortest Seek Time First (SSTF)
â€¢ SCAN
â€¢ C-SCAN
â€¢ LOOK

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ReleaseDate 2013-08-12
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	WAGmob
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2013-08-12
Format	Kindle eBook

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