This week’s topics
Final assessment and submission
- Final coursework submission
- Assessment against all criteria
What you will be able to do
- 1.1 Outline a range of common operating systems for computers and mobile devices.
- 1.2 Describe the historical development and need for operating systems.
- 1.3 Explain the key components of an operating system.
- 1.4 Explain how operating systems manage hardware and software resources.
- 1.5 Analyse the different kinds of operating system that exist.
- 1.6 Evaluate common trade-offs in resource management for operating systems.
- 2.1 Compare different file system types.
- 2.2 Describe different approaches to memory management.
- 2.3 Describe the role of device drivers in facilitating communication with hardware devices.
- 2.4 Explain the role of virtual (swap) memory.
- 2.5 Explain the role of paging in allowing for non-contiguous memory allocation.
- 2.6 Analyse the difference between fixed and dynamic loading and linking strategies.
- 3.1 Describe what is meant by a process.
- 3.2 Explain the contents of the process control block and its importance.
- 3.3 Explain the way that processes are represented for management by operating systems.
- 3.4 Analyse the range of responsibilities an operating system has for managing the execution of processes.
- 4.1 Outline the difference between independent and cooperating processes.
- 4.2 Describe what is meant by concurrency.
- 4.3 Explain the memory sharing and message passing approaches to inter process communication.
- 4.4 Analyse deadlock and race conditions as potential problems in concurrent processing settings and propose strategies to mitigate them.
- 4.5 Evaluate the importance of low-level and high-level inter process communication.
- 5.1 Develop kernel modules that interact with hardware devices and system resources.
- 5.2 Implement system calls to extend kernel functionality and interact with user-level applications.
- 5.3 Implement kernel-level programs to perform different tasks.
- 5.4 Use debugging to test kernel-level code to ensure stability and performance.
Activity
Final assessment week: submission of the unit assignment.
Study materials
The teaching notes, exercises and videos of this week are in the student portal. Your portal is set up as soon as you receive final acceptance, so you can open them before the semester starts.
