CSE 430 MIDTERM 1 REVIEW SHEET
29 September 2007
FALL 2007
Exams are Thursday 4 October 2007 3:15-4:30 pm BYAC 240
Thursday 4 October 2007 6:40-7:55 pm BYAC 270
Closed book except one 8 x 5” colored card of handwritten notes
Exam topics In general, MT1 covers the first three syllabus topics Overview, Processes, and
Threads, and Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne 7th ed. Chapters 1, 2, 3, and 4.
Exam covers Class Notes
Homework
Text
All reasonable extensions
TOPICS
Overview (S G & G Chapters 1 and 2 and HW #1 and HW #2 and Computer System Structures
Handouts #1, #2 and #3.)
Introduction
* What operating systems do?
* operating system as a resource allocator and a control program
* goals of an operating system
* convenience – simple program development environment
* efficiency – good performance
* user view
* system view
* defining operating systems
* Computer-System Organization
* Computer-System Operation
* Storage Structure
* main memory
* secondary storage
* storage hierarchy
* caching and cache consistency
* I/O Structure
* program controlled and interrupt serviced I/O
* DMA
* traps, interrupts and exceptions
* Computer System Architecture
* Single Processor Systems
* Multiprocessor Systems
* Clustered Systems
* Operating System Structure - multiprogramming
* Operating System Operations
* Hardware protection - what’s needed/why/how it works
* dual mode
* privileged instructions
* I/O protection
* memory protection
* CPU protection and timer
* the role of system calls
* Process Management
* Memory Management
