Punjab Technical University | 6th
operating system
📚 Syllabus - OS (B-TECH Electronics and Communication Engineering 6th)
PART-A
1. Introduction to Operating system, Role of Operating System as resource manager, function of
kernel and shell, operating system structures, views of an operating system.
2. Process management: CPU scheduling, Scheduling Algorithms, PCB, Process synchronization,
Deadlocks, Prevention, Detection and Recovery.
3. Memory Management: Overlays, Memory management policies, Fragmentation and its types,
Partitioned memory managements, Paging, Segmentation, Need of Virtual memories, Page
replacement Algorithms, Concept of Thrashing.
PART-B
4. Device Management: I/O system and secondary storage structure, Device management policies,
Role of I/O traffic controller, scheduler.
5. File Management: File System Architecture, Layered Architecture, Physical and Logical File
Systems, Protection and Security.
6. Brief study to multiprocessor and distributed operating systems.
7. Case Studies: LINUX / UNIX Operating System and Windows based operating systems.
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