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FIT2065

Faculty of Information Technology

18 September 2017 20 April 2024

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This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2016 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.

Monash University

6 points, SCA Band 2, 0.125 EFTSL

Undergraduate - Unit

Refer to the specific census and withdrawal dates for the semester(s) in which this unit is offered.

Faculty

Information Technology

Offered

Caulfield

  • First semester 2016 (Day)
  • First semester 2016 (Online)

Notes

The ONLINE offering of this unit is only available to BITS Gippsland DE students.

Synopsis

The main topics covered in this unit include computer systems, operating systems, process management and coordination, memory management including modern implementations of virtual memory, file systems, operating system security, shell variant scripting, regular expressions, Unix utilities, Unix file system, Unix system administration and installation, Unix programming, research and development.

Outcomes

At the completion of this unit, students should be able to:

  1. analyse and evaluate various strategies used by an operating system in managing the system resources and running applications efficiently;
  2. analyse and identify parameters that can improve the performance of multi-programming operating systems, in particular, the Unix;
  3. apply the principle of threading and synchronisation in developing distributed applications; and
  4. demonstrate the ability of using Unix tools for system administration.

Assessment

Examination (2 hours): 60%; In-semester assessment: 40%

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.) Additional requirements (all students):

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

See also Unit timetable information

Chief examiner(s)

Dr Malik Khan

Prerequisites

One of FIT1001, FIT1031 or CSE1201 or equivalent

Prohibitions

CPE3007, CPE2008, CSE2208, CSE2391, CSE3001, CSE3208, CSE3391, FIT3041, GCO3813

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

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