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Operating Systems Syllabus

The Operating Systems syllabus covers fundamental concepts including types, services, and structures of operating systems. It delves into processes, inter-process communication, memory management, and disk management, detailing scheduling algorithms, critical sections, deadlocks, and memory allocation techniques. Each unit provides a comprehensive overview of essential topics necessary for understanding operating systems.

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Operating Systems Syllabus

The Operating Systems syllabus covers fundamental concepts including types, services, and structures of operating systems. It delves into processes, inter-process communication, memory management, and disk management, detailing scheduling algorithms, critical sections, deadlocks, and memory allocation techniques. Each unit provides a comprehensive overview of essential topics necessary for understanding operating systems.

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Operating Systems Syllabus

Unit 1: Introduction

- Concept of Operating Systems

- Generations of Operating Systems

- Types of Operating Systems

- OS Services

- System Calls

- Structure of an OS - Layered, Monolithic, Microkernel Operating Systems

- Concept of Virtual Machine

- System Call Interface for Process Management: fork, exit, wait, waitpid, exec

Unit 2: Processes

- Definition

- Process Relationship

- Different States of a Process

- Process State Transitions

- Process Control Block (PCB)

- Context Switching

- Thread: Definition, Various States, Benefits of Threads, Types of Threads, Concept of Multi

Threads

- Process Scheduling: Foundation and Scheduling Objectives

- Types of Schedulers

- Scheduling Criteria: CPU Utilization, Throughput, Turnaround Time, Waiting Time, Response Time
Operating Systems Syllabus

- Scheduling Algorithms: Pre-emptive and Non-preemptive, FCFS, SJF, RR, Priority, Preemptive

Priority, SRTF

Unit 3: Inter-process Communication

- Critical Section

- Race Conditions

- Mutual Exclusion

- Hardware Solution

- Strict Alternation

- Peterson's Solution

- The Producer-Consumer Problem

- Semaphores

- Message Passing

- Classical IPC Problems: Reader's and Writer Problem, Dining Philosopher Problem

- Deadlocks: Definition, Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Deadlock, Deadlock Prevention

- Deadlock Avoidance: Banker's Algorithm (Safety and Resource Request Algorithm)

- Deadlock Detection and Recovery

Unit 4: Memory Management

- Basic Concept

- Logical and Physical Address Map

- Memory Allocation: Contiguous Memory Allocation - Fixed and Variable Partition

- Internal and External Fragmentation


Operating Systems Syllabus

- Compaction

- Paging: Principle of Operation, Page Allocation, Hardware Support for Paging, Page Fault,

Demand Paging

- Page Replacement Algorithms: Optimal, FIFO, Second Chance (SC), Least Recently Used (LRU)

Unit 5: Disk Management

- Disk Structure

- Disk Scheduling Algorithms: FCFS, SSTF, LOOK, C-LOOK, SCAN, C-SCAN

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