CSCI 4320 (Principles of Operating Systems):
Review for Final Exam

Format of the exam

The exam will be during the regularly scheduled exam periods (8:30am--11:30am December 11 and 8:30--11:30am December 13). You may attend either time. It should take you about 75 minutes, but you may use the full 3 hours if you choose. You may use your textbook and any notes or papers you care to bring, but you may not use other books, or of course each other's papers. You may bring a calculator if you choose, although any calculations on the exam should be doable with pencil and paper only.

The exam will be comprehensive, but will focus on material covered since Exam 2.

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.

Reading to review

You should have read (or at least skimmed) all of chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12. The following is a list of sections to read more carefully and/or review.

You may also find it helpful to read the half-page between-chapters introductions on pages 1, 87, 237, and 395.

Additional hints

You may find it helpful to review homeworks and previous exams, and their solutions.