Study Guide for Ceng 334 OS Course

This study guide is to help you organize your efforts in learning the course subject (and therefore get sufficient grade to pass).  As I have mentioned in the class that the lecture notes are highlights of the material covered in the text book and aimed to introduce the basic concepts. You should study the sections covered from the book, be able to solve the problems at the end of each section, and test yourself by solving the past exams as found on the course home page.

Chapter 1:      INTRODUCTION

Chapter 2:      PROCESSES and THREADS

Chapter 3:      DEADLOCKS

Chapter 4:      MEMORY MANAGEMENT

Chapter 5:      INPUT/OUTPUT

Chapter 6:      FILE SYSTEMS

Chapter 10:      CASE STUDY 1 - UNIX Chapter 11:      CASE STUDY 2 - Windows 2000