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Operating System Concepts

(CTU-IT140.AE1)
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1

Introduction

  • What Operating Systems Do
  • History and Evolution of Operating Systems
  • Computer-System Organization
  • Computer-System Architecture
  • Operating-System Operations
  • Resource Management
  • Security and Protection
  • Virtualization
  • Distributed Systems
  • Kernel Data Structures
  • Computing Environments
  • Free and Open-Source Operating Systems
  • Summary
2

Operating-System Structures

  • Operating-System Services
  • User and Operating-System Interface
  • System Calls
  • System Services
  • Linkers and Loaders
  • Why Applications Are Operating-System Specific
  • Operating-System Design and Implementation
  • Comparison of Operating Systems
  • Operating-System Structure
  • Summary
3

Processes

  • Process Concept
  • Process Scheduling
  • Operations on Processes
  • Interprocess Communication
  • IPC in Shared-Memory Systems
  • IPC in Message-Passing Systems
  • Examples of IPC Systems
  • Communication in Client–Server Systems
  • Summary
4

Security and Protection

  • The Security Problem
  • Program Threats
  • System and Network Threats
  • Cryptography as a Security Tool
  • User Authentication
  • Implementing Security Defenses
  • An Example: Windows 10
  • Goals of Protection
  • Principles of Protection
  • Protection Rings
  • Domain of Protection
  • Access Matrix
  • Implementation of the Access Matrix
  • Revocation of Access Rights
  • Role-Based Access Control
  • Summary
5

Networks and Distributed Systems

  • Advantages of Distributed Systems
  • Network Structure
  • Communication Structure
  • Network and Distributed Operating Systems
  • Design Issues in Distributed Systems
  • Distributed File Systems
  • DFS Naming and Transparency
  • Remote File Access
  • Final Thoughts on Distributed File Systems
  • Summary

1

Introduction

  • Understanding the Storage-Device Hierarchy
  • Understanding the Transition from User to Kernel Mode
2

Operating-System Structures

  • Understanding the System Calls
  • Understanding the Procedure of Executing a Program
  • Understanding the Structure of Darwin
3

Processes

  • Learning the Process State Diagram

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