Madras University Operating System Syllabus

Has there any chance in the Paper VIII Operating Systems of B Sc Computer Science of University of Madras or is it same as last year? Can you provide me the syllabus of Operating System of B Sc Computer Science of University of Madras?

I am student of University of Madras and from here doing BCA degree searching for the Operating System Syllabus. Will you please provide me BCA Semester III Operating System Syllabus of University of Madras so that I can prepare well for university annual exam?

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University of Madras is a public state university in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.

Established in 1857, it is one of the oldest and premier universities in India. The university was incorporated by an act of the Legislative Council of India

Semester III - BCA212 - Operating Systems

Lecturer/Lab Hours per Week: 6
Duration: 3 hrs
Max Makrs: 100
Credit: 4

UNIT I :

Introduction: Views- Goals - Types of System- OS Structure - Components - Services - System Structure - Layered Approach - Virtual Machines - System Design and Implementation. Process Management: Process - Process Scheduling - Cooperating Process - Treads - Inter-process Communication. CPU Scheduling: CPU Schedulers - Scheduling Criteria - Scheduling Algorithms.

UNIT II :

Process Synchronization: Critical-Section Problem - Synchronization Hardware - Semaphores Classical Problems of Synchronization - Critical Region - Monitors. Deadlocks: Characterization- Methods for Handling Deadlocks - Deadlock Prevention - Avoidance - Detection - Recovery.

UNIT III :

Memory Management: Address Binding - Dynamic Loading and Linking - Overlays - Logical and Physical Address Space - Contiguous Allocation - Internal & External Fragmentation. Non-Contiguous Allocation: Paging and Segmentation Schemes - Implementation - Hardware-Protection - Sharing - Fragmentation.

UNIT IV :

Virtual Memory: Demand Paging - Page Replacement - Page Replacement Algorithms - Thrashing. File System: File Concepts - Access Methods - Directory Structures - Protection Consistency Semantics - File System Structures - Allocation Methods - Free Space Management.

UNIT V :

I/O System: Overview - I/O Hardware - Application I/O Interface - Kernel I/O Subsystem - Transforming I/O Requests to Hardware Operations - Performance. Secondary Storage Structures: Protection - Goals - Domain - Access matrix - The Security Problem - Authentication - Threats - Threat Monitoring - Eyncrption.

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