SYLLABUS - Diploma CSE 3rd Semester

CHAPTER - 1 INTRODUCTION

• ?? Operating System
• ?? Mainframe Systems
• ?? Desktop Systems
• ?? Multiprocessor Systems
• ?? Distributed Systems
• ?? Clustered Systems
• ?? Real-Time Systems
• ?? Handheld Systems
• ?? Feature Migration
• ?? Computing Environments

CHAPTER – 2 COMPUTER- SYSTEM STRUCTURES

• ?? Computer-System Operation
• ?? I/O Structure
• ?? Storage Structure
• ?? Storage Hierarchy
• ?? Hardware Protection
• ?? Network Structure

CHAPTER – 3 OPERATING SYSTEM STRUCTURES

• ?? System Components
• ?? Operating-System Services
• ?? System Calls
• ?? System Programs
• ?? System Structure
• ?? Virtual Machines
• ?? System Design and
• ?? Implementation
• ?? System Generation

CHAPTER - 4 PROCESSES AND MULTITHREADING

• ?? Process Concept
• ?? Process Scheduling 
• ?? Operations on Processes
• ?? Cooperating Processes
• ?? Inter process Communication
• ?? Communication in Client –Server Systems
• ?? Multithreading Models

CHAPTER – 5 CPU SCHEDULING

• ?? Basic Concepts
• ?? Scheduling Criteria
• ?? Scheduling Algorithms
• ?? Multiple-Processor Scheduling
• ?? Real-Time Scheduling
• ?? Algorithm Evaluation
• ?? Process Scheduling Models

CHAPTER – 6 MEMORY MANAGEMENT

• ?? Swapping
• ?? Contiguous & Non-Contiguous Memory Allocation
• ?? Paging
• ?? Segmentation
• ?? Segmentation with Paging

CHAPTER – 7 FILE-SYSTEM INTERFACE & IMPLEMENTATION

• ?? File-system interface
• - File Concept
• - Access Methods
• - Directory Structure
• - File-System Mounting
• - File Sharing
• - Protection
• ?? File system implementation
• - File-System Structure
• - File-System Implementation
• - Directory Implementation
• - Allocation Methods
• - Free-Space Management
• - Efficiency and Performance
• - Recovery

CHAPTER – 8 I/O SYSTEMS & MASS STORAGE STRUCTURE

• ?? I/O systems
• - I/O Hardware
• - Application I/O Interface
• - Kernel I/O Subsystem
• - Transforming I/O to Hardware Operations
• - STREAMS
• - Performance
• ?? Mass storage structure
• - Disk Structure
• - Disk Scheduling
• - Disk Management
• - Swap-Space Management

CHAPTER – 9 VIRTUAL MEMORY – Definition

• ?? Demand paging
• ?? Page Replacement Algorithm
• ?? Thrashing

CHAPTER– 10 DEAD LOCKS

• ?? Basic Concepts
• ?? Deadlock Detection, Prevention
• ?? Handling algorithm, excluding Banker's Algorithm