CS 4740 - Operating Systems I

3 unit(s)

CS 3750 Introduction to computer operating system design and implementation issues. Historical development of operating systems; management of processes, concurrent processes, memory, storage, and I/O systems; protection and security; ethical issues relating to security and privacy; and case studies of operating systems.

Prerequisites: CS 3100 and CS 3740.

Hours: (Lecture, 2 hours; laboratory, 2 hours)

Course Learning Outcomes List

Students will be able to:

Explain the structure, functions, and components of operating systems (PLO #2.4);
Apply concepts of process management, CPU scheduling, and concurrency to solve problems;
Analyze memory management and virtualization techniques, including address spaces, paging, segmentation, and virtual memory;
Describe and evaluate file systems, storage, including RAID, and I/O mechanisms for persistence;
Use Unix commands to evaluate the privacy and security settings for files, users, etc.;
Discuss a variety of ethical issues, including the ethical implications of improperly configured security settings; and,
Develop and apply C programming skills to design and implement operating system components. Be able to use a variety of Unix commands, including pipes.

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