Undergraduate - UnitFIT3046 - Operating environments

This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2014 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 2014 (Day) Gippsland First semester 2014 (Off-campus) South Africa First semester 2014 (Day)
Coordinator(s)	Assoc. Professor Manzur Murshed (Gippsland); Ms Paula Murray (South Africa)

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)

Professor Bala Srinivasan

Workload requirements

Minimum total expected workload equals 12 hours per week comprising:

(a.) Contact hours for on-campus students:

Two hours of lectures
One 2-hour laboratory

(b.) Study schedule for off-campus students:

Off-campus students generally do not attend lecture and tutorial sessions, however should plan to spend equivalent time working through the relevant resources and participating in discussion groups each week.

(c.) Additional requirements (all students):

A minimum of 8 hours independent study per week for completing lab and project work, private study and revision.

This unit applies to the following area(s) of study

Applications development and networks

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