CSCI 4320 (Principles of Operating Systems):
Review for Exam 2
Format of the exam
The exam will be in class November 16. You will have 75 minutes.
You may use your textbook and any notes or papers you care to bring,
but you may not use other books or each other's papers.
For this exam you may also bring a calculator.
Lecture topics to review
You are responsible for all material presented during lecture,
but the following is a list of topics I consider most important.
- Memory management.
- Review of process management (from chapter 4).
- CPU scheduling.
There will be no questions focusing exclusively on material
covered by the previous exam, but it is not impossible that
a question might draw in part on material covered before
Exam 1 (as one of the questions in Homework 3 did).
Reading to review
You should have read (or at least skimmed) all of chapters
5, 8, and 9;
the following is a list of sections to read more carefully / review.
- Chapter 8 (all sections except 8.7).
- Chapter 9 (all sections, but can skip/skim details in sections
9.5, 9.6, 9.7, 9.8, and 9.9).
- Chapter 4 (sections 4.2 and 4.3).
- Chapter 5 (sections 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.6, and 5.7).