CSE 430 MIDTERM 1 REVIEW SHEET
Preliminary Version 18 February 2005
SPRING 2005
Exams are Thursday 24 February 2005 3:15-4:30 pm BYAC 210
Thursday 24 February 2005 6:40-7:55 pm BYAC 220
Closed book except one 8 x 5" canary colored card of handwritten notes
Exam topics In general, MT1 covers the first four syllabus topics Overview, Processes,
Threads and CPU Scheduling and Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne 6th ed. Chapters
1-6.
Exam covers Class Notes
Homework
Text
All reasonable extensions
TOPICS
Overview (S G & G Chapters 1-3 and HW #1 and HW #2 and Computer System Structures
Handouts #1, #2, #3, #4 and #5 and Virtual Machines Handout #2 (VMware))
* introduction to operating systems
* operating system as a resource allocator and a control program
* goals of an operating system
* convenience – simple program development environment
* efficiency – good performance
* types of operating systems and historical overview
* mainframe systems
* time-sharing systems
* desktop systems
* multiprocessor systems
* distributed systems
* real-time systems
* handheld systems
* feature migration
* computer system structures
* traps, interrupts and exceptions
* I/O structure
* program controlled and interrupt serviced I/O
* DMA
* storage structure
* main memory
* secondary storage
* storage hierarchy
* caching and cache consistency
