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    This document outlines a course on operating systems. The course aims to provide student teachers knowledge and skills on computer architecture and how operating systems work. Key topics covered include process management, threads, process synchronization, deadlocks, memory management, virtual memory, and file systems. Assessment will be through continuous assessment worth 50% and a final exam worth 50%. The exam will be a 100 mark theory paper.

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    MUFULIRA COLLEGE OF EDUCATION

    Mathematics Department
    Computer Studies Section

    OPERATING SYSTEMS
    Course outline

    BACK GROUND
    The course Operating Systems will enable student teachers have knowledge and skills on the
    architecture and underlying functionality of computer systems.

    RATIONALE
    The course is very important as it equips the student teachers with relevant knowledge and skills
    on how computers are made and how they operate. Furthermore, it provides the student teacher
    with the necessary teaching and learning knowledge and skills for pupils of computer studies at
    secondary school level in Zambia.

    LEARNING OUTCOMES
    By the end of the course students will:
     use computer arithmetic in hardware construction and organization,
     identify computer components and their functions,
     disassemble and assemble a computer system,
     explain representation of programs in computers,
     explain the interdependence of software and hardware in the memory system,
     explain the bus structure,
     apply principles of Input/output structures and processor design,
     apply concepts needed for designing modern operating systems,
     explain key features of a modern operating system.

    COURSE CONTENT

    1. Introduction to Operating Systems (OS)


     Concept of Operating Systems
     Historical Perspective and Evolution
     Operating System Components
     Operating System Services
     Operating System Structure
    2. Process Management
     Concept of Process management
     Process and CPU Scheduling
     Operations on Processes
     Multiple-Processor Scheduling
     Disk Scheduling
     Batch, Online and Real-Time Scheduling
     Inter-Process Communication

    3. Threads
     Concepts of threads
     User and Kernel threads
     Multithreading Modules
     Solaris, Windows and Linux - threads

    4. Process Synchronization
     Concept of Process Synchronization
     Race Conditions
     Critical-Section Problem
     Mutual Exclusion
     Semaphores

    5. Deadlocks
     Concept of Deadlock
     Deadlock Characterization
     Methods for Handling Deadlocks
     Deadlock Prevention
     Deadlock Avoidance
     Deadlock Detection
     Recovery from Deadlock
     Two Phase Locking

    6. Memory Management
     Concept of Memory manage
     Memory Management Functions
     Memory Architecture Evolution
     Swapping
     Multiprogramming with Partitions
     Contiguous Memory Allocation
     Paging
     Segmentation
    7. Virtual Memory
     Virtual Memory concept
     Demand Paging
     Page Replacement
     Allocation of Frames
     Thrashing
     Memory Management with bit maps and linked lists
     Buddy Systems

    8. File Systems
     Concepts File Systems
     Directory Structure
     Security and Protection
     File-System Structure
     Allocation Methods
     Free-Space Management
     Directory Implementation
     Efficiency and Performance
     Log-Structured File System

    ASSESSMENT
    Continuous Assessment, weighted at 50%

    Final Examination, weighted at 50%


    There shall be one (1) theory paper carrying 100 marks, weighted at 50%.

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