Operating System - CSE 258
Exam Information
The final exam will be on Wednesday, May 7 from 3:30 to 5:30 in BUSN 112. The exam is closed book, closed notes. It will mostly cover materials after Midterm Exam II.
Although you should be familiar with all the content covered in the lecture notes, the topics below are worth highlighting. Make sure you understand them prior to taking the exam.
Memory Management
File System
I/O
Protection & Security
To give you some feeling of the exam: You will be tested primarily on concepts instead of tiny details; All questions will be all based on lectures, homework and programming assignments; This is the overall structure of the exam (the exact points for each problem in the actual exam may differ a little bit):
1. Quickies: (40 points, containing 7 to 8 questions for which you only need to provide short answers)
2. Memory management (address translation; TLB): 15 points
3. Memory management (page replacement): 15 points
4. File system: 20 points
5. Protection & Security: 10 points
Midterm Exam II
The second midterm exam will be in class on Thursday, April, 3 in Gentry 425. The exam is closed book, closed notes. It will cover all materials up to the class before the exam.
We will have review sessions in class before the exam. We will go over your hw2 and hw3. Also please bring your questions to class so we can address them.
Although you should be familiar with all the content covered in the lecture notes, the topics below are worth highlighting. Make sure you understand prior to taking the exam.
Process synchronization
Deadlock
Memory management (up to contiguous memory allocation & basic ideas of paging)
Format of the Exam
The format is the same as the first midterm. You will be tested primarily on concepts instead of tiny details; All questions will be all based on lectures, homework and programming assignments; This is the overall structure of the exam (the exact points for each problem in the actual exam may differ a little bit):
1. Quickies: (45 points, containing questions for which you only need to provide short answers)
2. Synchronization problem (you need to write pseudo code). 35 points
3. Deadlock: 20 points
Midterm Exam I
The first midterm exam will be during the class time on Thursday, Feb. 21 in Gentry 425. The exam is closed book, closed notes. It will cover all materials up to the class before the exam.
Functionality of OS
Architecture support to OS
OS organization
Processes
Threads
CPU scheduling
1. Quickies: (40 points, containing 5 questions for which you only need to provide short answers)
2. Process scheduling: 15 points
3. Context switch: 15 points
4. Basic concepts of processes and threads: 15 points
5. CPU scheduling: 15 points.