CSCI 3323 (Principles of Operating Systems), Fall 2017:
Review for Midterm Exam

Format of the exam

The exam will be in class October 11. You will have 75 minutes. As is usually true for my exams, it is ``open book / open notes'', which means you can consult paper or electronic copies of the textbook and your notes, sample solutions from this year only, your own graded work, and anything on the course Web site. You may not use other books, materials from this course from previous years, a calculator or computer (except as needed to consult allowed sources), or (of course) each other's papers. Some questions will be similar in format to those in the homework assignments; others will be multiple-choice or true/false. You might be asked to write or comment on code/pseudocode, but it's unlikely that you'll be asked to write more than a few lines.

Lecture topics to review

You are responsible for all material presented during lecture (except for recent material on memory management); the following is a list of major topics to review:

Reading to review

You should have read all of chapters 1 and chapter 2 and skimmed chapter 6. Probably the best way to approach reviewing the reading is to skim all of it, paying more attention to topics I covered in class, and (re)read the last (summary) section of each chapter.

Other tips

You should also be sure to review all homeworks (and sample solutions) and any non-opinion minute essay questions.



Berna Massingill
2017-10-03