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✔ Flowcharts
✔ Algorithm steps
✔ Important definitions and formulas
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What’s Inside the PDF? (Full Syllabus Coverage)
✔SECTION I: Operating System Basics:
- Evolution,Objectives & Functions
- Characteristics
- Classification of Operating Systems
- OS Services
- System Calls
- OS Structures
- Concept of Virtual Machines
Process Concepts:
- Definition
- Process Relationship
- Process States
- Process State Transactions
- Process Control Block
- Context Switching
- Threads
- Concepts of Multithreads
- Benefits of Threads
- Types of Threads
Process Scheduling:
- Definition
- Scheduling Objectives
- Types of Schedulers
- Scheduling Criteria
- Scheduling Algorithm:
- Preemptive and Non Preemptive
- FCFS,SJF,RR
Multiprocessor Scheduling:
- Types
- Performance Evaluation of the Scheduling
✔ SECTION-II: Interprocess Communication:
- Race Conditions
- Critical Section
- Mutual Exclusion
- Hardware Solution
- Strict Alternation
- Peterson’s Solution
- Producer Consumer Problem
- Semaphores
- Event Counters
- Monitors
- Message Passing
- Classical IPC Problems
- Reader & Writers Problem
- Dining Philosopher Problem
Deadlocks:
- System Model
- Deadlock Principles
- Deadlock Characterization
- Methods for Handling Deadlocks
- Deadlock Prevention
- Deadlock Avoidance
- Deadlock Detection
- Recovery from Deadlock
✔ SECTION-III:.Memory Management
- Basic Memory Management
- Logical and Physical Address Map
- Memory Allocation
- Fragmentation and Compaction
- Paging and its Disadvantages
- Virtual Memory
- Locality of Reference
- Page Fault
- Working Set
- Demand Paging Concept
- Page Replacement Policies
Input/Output Management:
- I/O Devices
- Device Controllers
- Direct Memory Access
- Principles of I/O Softwares
- Goals of Interrupt Handlers
- Device Drivers
- Device Independent
- I/O Software
- Secondary Storage Structure
- Disc Structure
- Disc Scheduling Algorithms
File Management:
- File Concept
- Access Methods
- File Types
- File Operation
- Directory Structure
- File System Structure
- Allocation Methods
✔ SECTION-IV:.Linux Basics:
- Genesis of Linux
- Architecture of Linux
- Features of Linux
- Introduction to VI Editor
- Linux Commands
- Linux Shells
- Role of Linux Shells
- Types
- Bourne Shell(sh)
- C shell(csh)
- Korn Shell(ksh)
- Bourne Again Shell(bash)
Linux Utilities:
- File Handling Utilities
- Security by File Permissions
- Process Utilities
- Disk Utilities
- Networking Commands
- Filters
- Text Processing utilities and backup utilities
Shell Programing(with bash):
- Introduction
- Shell Responsibilities
- Pipes and Redirections
- Running a Shell Script
- The Shell as a Programing Language
- Shell Meta characrters
- File Name Substitution
- Shell Variables
- Command Substitution
- Shell Commands
- The Enviornment
- Quoting
- Test Command
- Control Structure
- Arithmatic in Shell
- Shell Script Examples
- Interrupt Processing
- Functions
- Debugging Shell Script
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- Unit-wise Important Questions
- High-scoring Diagrams
- One-Page Short Notes for Quick Revision
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