Final Exam Info

The final exam will take place 7:30-9:30PM on Thursday, May 8th in our usual room. The exam is closed book – no prepared notes or calculators. Expect to make use of the fast metric math skills that you practiced throughout the semester.

Please note that there will be no bathroom breaks during the exam, so plan accordingly.

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/B)
• Chapter 12-24: Memory Management (Project 5, HW E)
• Chapter 25-34: Concurrency and Synchronization (Project 3/4, HW C/D)
• Chapter 35-45: Storage and Filesystems (Project 6, HW F)
• 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.