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Merrick School of Business
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A first objective of this course is to provide concepts, theories and frameworks to enable students to:
The first hour of each class meeting will review the main concepts, structure, and mechanisms of operating systems (see outline for specific topics).
A second objective of this course is to familiarize students with Windows XP and Linux operating systems. The students will be able to:
Class handouts will be available on the Web at the following address of the course syllabus:
Note: To print properly this syllabus set top and bottom margins to 1" in your browser.
| Mini-projects (6) | 30% |
| Assignments (weekly) | 20% |
| Mid-term exam | 20% |
| Final exam | 30% |
The mini-projects are hands-on exercises in a given operating system. Your grade in the mini-projects will depend upon the content and structure of the final written report. The mini-projects are to be made in groups of three students. I created ten groups for this semester and will add your names after the first class meeting. Each group will work using a MIS Lab machine throughout the semester, and will have administrative privileges in their respective machines. Each group will create a report with screen capture of what you did (download free software for screen capture from Nonags) and post your group project report in the mini-project entry (1 to 6) of the Assignments folder of one of the group members in WebTycho. If the files become too large, please zip them before posting (again download free software from Nonags, if you do not have it). If you have problems capturing to your liking the reports, please use a free software from PrimoPDF to create a PDF file. In Linux use Ksnapshot (a standard software in KDE graphical desktop) to capture the screen, as needed.
The assignments are to take part on an on-line Forum discussion on topics related to the concepts of operating systems. The assignments are to be done individually, and posted on the course Conference in WebTycho up to 11 PM of the day before class meets. You are supposed to post a contribution to the discussions -- read what was posted before and add something new. I will post a question for discussion in weeks 2-6 and 10-14, and each student should post a follow-up message to my questions. Please take into consideration what others have already said and what I may have already replied.
The mid-term exam will consist of two parts: (a) concepts and (b) products. This is an open-book, open notes, exam. Bring your projects and assignments for they may help you. You will need to explain your answers in two to three lines. Be sure that the answer you select matches the explanation you provide. If you choose the right answer but there is no, or a wrong, explanation your answer will be considered wrong. If you choose the wrong answer but you provide the right explanation your answer will be considered right.
The final exam will consist of two parts: (a) concepts and (b) products. This is an open-book, open notes, exam. Bring your projects and assignments for they may help you. You will need to explain your answers in two to three lines. Be sure that the answer you select matches the explanation you provide. If you choose the right answer but there is no, or a wrong, explanation your answer will be considered wrong. If you choose the wrong answer but you provide the right explanation your answer will be considered right.
Deitel, H., Deitel, P., Chofness, D. Operating Systems, 3rd ed.: Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson/Prentice-Hall, 2004.
Mini- projects
Assignments
Mid-term Exam
Final Exam
TEXTBOOK
Books on Reserve in the Library
Web references
Look here for additional web references. Posted weekly, as needed.
| OUTLINE | |||
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| 8:15 - 9:15 | 9:25 - 10:45 | Assignments | |
| 02/02 | Introduction and group formation | Windows XP overview (21.1-21.5). | |
| 02/09 | Computer & OS overview (1,2) | Linux overview (20.1-.3) and Fedora customization | Complete information on Forum and introduce yourself |
| 02/16 | Process description and control (3) | Basic tools to manage Windows XP | mp 1 - treasure hunting in Windows |
| 02/23 | Threads, SMP and Microkernels (4) | Kernel, process and treads: Windows (21.6) and Linux (20.4,.5) | |
| 03/02 | Concurrency and Dealock (5,6,7) | Basic tools to manage Linux | mp 2 - treasure hunting in Linux |
| 03/09 | Scheduling (8) | User management: Windows and Linux. Using Sudo in Fedora Core 4. | |
| 03/16 | Memory Management (9,10,11) | Memory in Windows (21.7) and Linux (20.6). | mp 3 - managing users in Windows and Linux |
| 03/23 | Spring Break | Spring Break | |
| 03/30 | Mid-Term exam | Mid-Term exam | |
| 04/06 | Disk performance (12). Virtualization in Windows and Linux. | Windows services and disk management (21.8,.9) | mp 4 - memory management in Windows and Linux |
| 04/13 | File systems, RAID, and storage management (13) | Linux filesystems (20.7,.8). | |
| 04/20 | Performance, SMP, Clusters (14, part of 15, part of 18) | Windows networking (21.10 - .12) | mp 5 - File systems in Windows and Linux |
| 04/27 | Distributed Processing and Client/Server (17, part of 18) | Linux daemons and networking (20.10,.11) | |
| 05/04 | Security (19) | Security in Windows (21.13) and Linux (20.13) | mp 6 - networking in Windows and Linux |
| 05/11 | Course wrap-up | Final exam review | |
| 05/18 | Final exam | ||
Note: numbers between parenthesis refer to chapter(s) in the textbook
This page is maintained by Al Bento who can be reached at abento@ubalt.edu This page was last updated on January 31, 2006. Although we will attempt to keep this information accurate, we can not guarantee the accuracy of the information provided.