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OS Theory Syllabus

The document outlines the course structure for 'Operating Systems' (Course Code: 22MCA0303) offered in Semester III, detailing prerequisites, objectives, and outcomes. It covers key topics such as process management, memory management, storage management, and virtual machines, along with associated lecture hours and references. The course aims to equip students with a comprehensive understanding of operating systems, their design, and their functionalities.

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OS Theory Syllabus

The document outlines the course structure for 'Operating Systems' (Course Code: 22MCA0303) offered in Semester III, detailing prerequisites, objectives, and outcomes. It covers key topics such as process management, memory management, storage management, and virtual machines, along with associated lecture hours and references. The course aims to equip students with a comprehensive understanding of operating systems, their design, and their functionalities.

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Course Code OPERATING SYSTEMS L T P C

22MCA0303 4 0 0 4
Pre-Requisites Data Structures, C/Java Programming Semester III
Course Objectives:
The students will be able to
 understand fundamental data structures that are prevalent in most operating systems.
Course Outcomes (CO): Student will be able to
1. explain what operating systems are, what they do, and how they are designed and constructed.
2. analyze methods for process scheduling, inter-process communication, threads, process synchronization and
deadlock handling
3. deal with the management of main memory during the execution of a process
4. describe how mass storage, I/O and file systems are handled in a modern computer system
5. brief about hardware assistance technologies
UNIT – I INTRODUCTION Lecture Hrs: 10
Computer System - organization and architecture; Operating System Operations and Services - User and OS Interface
- System Calls and Services - Linkers and Loaders - OS specific applications, Design, Implementation and Structure -
OS Building, Booting and Debugging.
UNIT – II PROCESS MANAGEMENT Lecture Hrs: 14
Processes - Process Concept - Process Scheduling - Operations on Processes - Inter-process Communication; CPU
Scheduling - Scheduling criteria - Scheduling algorithms: Threads - Multithreading Models – Threading issues;
Process Synchronization - The Critical-Section problem - Synchronization hardware – Semaphores – Mutex Locks -
Classical problems of synchronization - Semaphores - Monitors; Deadlock - Methods for handling deadlocks, Deadlock
prevention, Deadlock avoidance, Deadlock detection, Recovery from deadlock.
UNIT – III MEMORY MANAGEMENT Lecture Hrs: 10
Main Memory - Contiguous Memory Allocation – Paging - Structure of the Page Table - Swapping; Virtual Memory -
Demand Paging – Copy on Write - Page Replacement - Allocation of Frames –Thrashing.
UNIT – IV STORAGE MANAGEMENT Lecture Hrs: 14
Mass Storage Structure – HDD Scheduling - RAID Structure; File-System Interface - File concept - Access methods -
Directory Structure - Protection - Memory - Mapped Files; File System Implementation - File System Structure and
operations - Directory implementation - Allocation Methods - Free Space Management; I/O Systems – I/O Hardware,
Application I/O interface, Kernel I/O subsystem.
UNIT – V VIRTUAL MACHINES Lecture Hrs: 12
Virtual Machines – History, Benefits and Features, Building Blocks, Types of Virtual Machines and their
Implementations, Virtualization and Operating-System Components; DFS and Remote File Access; Case Study on
LINUX OS;
TEXTBOOK(S) :
1. Operating System Concepts, Abraham Silberschatz, Peter Baer Galvin and Greg Gagne, John Wiley and Sons Inc.,
10th Edition, 2018
REFERENCES :
1. Andrew S Tanenbaum, Modern Operating Systems, Pearson, 5e, 2022 New Delhi.
2. William Stallings, Operating Systems, Pearson, 9e, 2018.
3. G. Sreehitha Reddy, K. Reddy Pradeep, Operating Systems : Concepts, 1e, Notion Press, Nov 2019
WEB REFERENCES :
1. https://www.coursera.org/specializations/codio-introduction-operating-systems
2. https://www.udacity.com/course/introduction-to-operating-systems--ud923
3. https://nptel.ac.in/courses/106105214

Mapping of Cos to POs and PSOs


PO1 PO2 PO3 PO4 PO5 PO6 PO7 PO8 PO9 PO10 PO11 PO12 PSO1 PSO2
CO1 2 2 1 1 1 1
CO2 2 1 1 1 1 1
CO3 3 3 3 1 1 2
CO4 1 1 2 2 1 2
CO5 2 2 1 1 1 2
(Levels of Correlation, viz., 1-Low, 2-Moderate, 3 High)

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