Syllabus
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Course Code: MCA-20-13 Course Name: Operating Systems |
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| MODULE NO / UNIT | COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE | NOTES |
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| 1 | Introductory Concepts: Operating system functions, structure, types viz. Batch processing systems, multi-programming systems, Time-sharing systems, desktop systems, multi-processor systems, distributed systems, clustered systems, real-time systems, handheld systems, open-source operating systems. Operating System Structures: System Components, Operating system services, system calls, system programs. CPU Scheduling: Process concepts, process operations, inter-process communication, scheduling criteria, scheduling algorithms, Comparative study of scheduling algorithms, Multiple processor scheduling. |
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| 2 | Concurrent Processes: Critical section problem, Semaphores, Classical process co-ordination problems and their solutions, monitors. Deadlocks: Deadlock characterization, Deadlock handling, Deadlock prevention and avoidance, Deadlock detection and recovery. |
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| 3 | Memory Management: Swapping, Paging, Segmentation, Virtual memory concepts: Demand Paging, Page replacement Algorithms, Thrashing. Storage Management: File concepts, File access methods, Directory Structure, File-system mounting, File sharing, Protection, File system structure and implementation, Directory implementation, File allocation methods, Recovery. Disk scheduling criteria and algorithms. |
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| 4 | Protection & Security: Goals of protection, domains of protection, access matrix. Security: Security problem, threats, security tools, classification. Distributed Systems: Types of network-based OS, Network structure and topologies, Communication structure & Protocol, design issues. Distributed File-system: Remote file access, File replication. Distributed synchronization: Mutual exclusion, Concurrency control, deadlock handling. |
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