Final Exam Info

The final exam will be 10:30-12:30 on Monday, May 2nd in 136 Debartolo.

The format will be similar to that of the midterm – expect about 5 to 6 pages. All of the material covered in the course is relevant:

• Chapter 3-11: Processes and Threads (Project 1/2, HW A)
• Chapter 12-24: Memory Management (Project 5)
• Chapter 25-34: Concurrency and Synchronization (Project 3/4, HW B)
• Chapter 35-45: Storage and Filesystems (Project 6)
• Chapter 53-55: Security

You may be asked to do the following:

• Define essential terms.
• Sketch and describe the hardware capabilities that underly each part of an operating system.
• Sketch and describe the key data structures within an operating system.
• Compare and evaluate different policies for scheduling processes, memory, and storage.
• Solve problems of synchronization and correctness.
• Compute the expected performance and capacity of a system from its basic properties.
• Write small amounts of C or assembly code related to the above.