Undergraduate - UnitFIT2070 - Operating systems

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Level	Undergraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Information Technology
Offered	Sunway First semester 2012 (Day) Clayton Second semester 2012 (Day)

Synopsis

This unit covers software organisation of multi-user and multi-tasking computers. The principles of operating systems are covered with reference to the underlying hardware requirements and are illustrated by case studies. Topics include operating system structure and services, multi-programming processes, CPU scheduling, memory management, device management, synchronisation, deadlocks, virtual memory and file systems.

Outcomes

At the completion of this unit students will have:
A knowledge and understanding of:

• operating systems as resource managers for CPU context switching, process scheduling and job scheduling;
• memory management and virtual memory systems; I/O device drivers and management;
• file subsystems;
• resource allocation strategies;
• asynchronous and synchronous communication mechanisms and their use in operating systems;
• the philosophy and implementation of interprocess communication and its use in distributed computer systems.

Developed the skills to:

• program OS components, such as job and process schedulers, page replacement algorithms, and file management subsystems, as well as programming interrupt handlers and contact switching.

Assessment

Examination (3 hours): 60%; In-semester assessment: 40%

Chief examiner(s)

Professor Bala Srinivasan

Contact hours

2 hrs lectures/wk, 3 hr laboratory/fortnight, 1 hr tutorial/fortnight

Prerequisites

(FIT1031 or FIT1001) and (FIT1008 or FIT1015)

Prohibitions

CSE2302, FIT2022

Additional information on this unit is available from the faculty at:

http://www.infotech.monash.edu/units/fit2070/