Download Course Title Operating Systems Course Code CUIT 109 Credits

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Operating Systems
CUIT 109
Lecture hrs: 36
Practical hrs: 8
Tutorial hrs: 4
Individual Study hrs: 59 Assessment: 13
Notional Hours: 120
Credits 12
The course’s focus is on how an Operating System manages system
resources e.g. memory, CPU files etc, while avoiding possible deadlocks and
/ or starvation.
By the end of the course students should be able to :
 Describe the necessary components and functions of an operating
system.
 Compare at least two operating systems (Windows and Linux) and
evaluate their suitability to a given task or goal.
 Install a current operating system and validate that the installation was
successful.
 Explain concurrency as it relates to scheduling and dispatching.
 Describe the advantages and issues associated with virtualization.
 Analyze operating system requirements and recommend an appropriate
operating system to meet the requirements
Computer Resources, process synchronization and inter-process
communication, interrupt handling, memory management, virtual memory,
processor scheduling, device management, I/O, and the file systems, File
management, Network operating systems, Specific operating systems e.g.
Linux or Unix, Windows family.
Coursework – 30%
 15% for 2 assignments
 15% for 2 tests
Final exam – 70%
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Software
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Stallings, W. (2001) Operating Systems 3rd Edition, Pearson
Education
Tanenbaum, A. S. (2004) Modern Operating Systems 2nd Edition,
Prentice Hall
Silberchartz, A., Gagne, G. and Galvin, B.P. (2002) 7th Edition
Operating System Concepts
Linux
Windows