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FIT2100

Faculty of Information Technology

18 September 2017 02 May 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

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Faculty

Information Technology

Offered

Not offered in 2016

Synopsis

This unit will provide students with the knowledge of how a multi-programming, multi-user operating systems operates and it manages and allocate resources to different applications. Students will be able to compare and contrast various resource management allocation strategies. Students will develop and implement new resource management strategy and study its properties.

The topics covered will include an introduction to C Programming which is heavily used in development of operating systems, 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 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;
  3. apply the principle of synchronisation in developing distributed applications; and
  4. show the applicability of OS techniques and mechanisms to the wider context of computing.

Assessment

Examination (3 hours): 50%; In-semester assessment: 50%

Workload requirements

Minimum total expected workload equals 12 hours per week comprising:

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

  • Two hours lectures
  • Two hours laboratories (alternate weeks)
  • Two hours tutorials (alternate weeks)

(b.) Additional requirements (all students):

  • A minimum of 2-3 hours of personal study per one hour of lecture time in order to satisfy the reading, tute, prac and assignment expectations.

See also Unit timetable information

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

Advanced computer science
Computer networks and security
Software engineering

Prerequisites

FIT1047 or ENG1003

Prohibitions

FIT2070