Undergraduate - UnitFIT3046 - Operating environments

This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2012 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

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6 points, SCA Band 2, 0.125 EFTSL

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Level	Undergraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Information Technology
Offered	Gippsland First semester 2012 (Day) Gippsland First semester 2012 (Off-campus) South Africa First semester 2012 (Day)

Synopsis

Processes and threads: interprocess communication, scheduling. Deadlock: detection, prevention, avoidance. Memory management: allocation, swapping, virtual memory. Input/output principles and examples: disks, graphical user interfaces, network terminals. File systems: files, directories, disk space management. Security: authentication, cryptography, common attacks, principles of secure system administration. Case studies: Characteristics of major PC operating systems such as Linux and Windows.

Outcomes

At the completion of this unit students will:

know the general purpose and functions of operating systems;
understand the hardware and software mechanisms used to carry out these functions;
be familiar with the principal differences between common major operating systems such as Windows and Linux;
be able to install new operating systems on PC hardware;
be willing to select operating systems based on their merits rather than their marketing.

Assessment

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

Chief examiner(s)

Associate Professor Manzur Murshed

Contact hours

2 hrs lectures/wk, 2 hrs laboratories/wk

Prerequisites

FIT1031 or FIT1001

Prohibitions

FIT2022, FIT2070, GCO2814, GCO3818

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

http://www.infotech.monash.edu.au/units/fit3046