CECS 327 REVIEW TOPICS FOR MIDTERM 2
The 2nd midterm is scheduled for Monday, 11/17/2008, and will cover the topics listed below. The
midterm will be a closed-book, closed-notes exam.
1. Chapter 5 – Distributed objects and remote invocation
Distributed object model (Section 5.2.3)
Remote method invocation semantics (Section 5.2.4)
Implementation of remote method invocation (Section 5.2.5)
Distributed garbage collection (Section 5.2.6)
Software support required for remote procedure call (Section 5.3)
Java RMI (Section 5.5)
2. Chapter 6 – Operating system support
Core OS functionality (Section 6.2)
Protection of resource from illegitimate/improper access - user mode vs. supervisor mode,
isolation of address space, context switching (Section 6.3)
Processes and threads – process creation and management, thread creation and management,
relation between process and threads, architectures for multi-threaded servers, state associated
with execution environments an threads, threads implementation (user-level vs. kernel-level
threads) (Section 6.4)
Invocation between address spaces and performance consideration (Section 6.5)
Operating system architecture – monolithic kernel vs. microkernel (Section 6.6)
