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CSC 421 Computer Operating Systems II

400 levelComputing & ICT10 topics

CSC 421 covers 10 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

  1. Advanced CPU scheduling
  2. Advanced memory management techniques
  3. File system implementation and allocation
  4. Protection and access control
  5. Operating system security
  6. Distributed operating system concepts
  7. Distributed synchronisation and coordination
  8. Virtualisation and hypervisors
  9. Real-time operating systems
  10. Case studies: UNIX and Windows internals

A sample from this course

One topic, as StudyPath teaches it.

Advanced CPU scheduling

Advanced CPU scheduling focuses on how an operating system chooses which ready process should use the CPU when many processes compete at the same time. For exam purposes, you must master scheduling goals, major advanced algorithms, and how to evaluate them using measures such as waiting time, turnaround time, response time, fairness, and starvation.

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