Operating System

1. Explain process states and transitions.
2. Implement multithreading in user, kernel, and hybrid levels.
3. Resolve race conditions and deadlocks using semaphores and monitors.
4. Describe memory swapping and partitioning techniques.
5. Understand virtual memory concepts and solve memory allocation issues.
6. Analyze caching and thrashing issues and apply replacement policies.

13 weeks, about 78 hours in total. Yours will differ.

1. Week 1Module 1: Process Management

   • Unit 1: Processes and State · 2 hours

     Understand the definition of a process and its various states (new, running, ready, blocked, terminated).. Learn how the operating system manages processes and allocates resources.. Study the Process Control Block (PCB) and its role in process management..

   • Unit 2: Context Switching · 2 hours

     Explore the concept of context switching and its importance in multitasking.. Understand the steps involved in context switching and its overhead.. Learn about procedures and system calls and their role in process execution..

   • Unit 3: Interrupts and Interrupts Handler · 2 hours

     Understand the concept of interrupts and their types (hardware and software).. Learn about interrupt handlers and their role in servicing interrupt requests.. Study interrupt masking and unmasking techniques..

2. Week 2Module 2: Concurrency – Multithreading

   • Unit 1: Threads & Multithreading · 2 hours

     Explore the concept of threads and multithreading.. Understand the benefits of multithreading in improving performance and concurrency.. Learn about POSIX threads and the Pthreads API..

   • Unit 2: Types of Threads · 2 hours

     Study different multithreading models (many-to-one, one-to-one, many-to-many).. Learn about thread creation and termination techniques.. Understand the differences between threads and processes..

   • Unit 3: Threads Data Structure and Lifecycle · 2 hours

     Explore the thread control block (TCB) and its contents.. Understand the thread lifecycle and its various states (new, ready, running, blocked, terminated).. Study thread state transitions..

3. Week 3Module 3: Process Synchronization

   • Unit 1: Race condition, Critical Region and Mutual Exclusion · 2 hours

     Define race condition and its causes.. Understand the concept of critical regions and mutual exclusion.. Learn techniques to resolve race conditions..

   • Unit 2: Deadlocks · 2 hours

     Describe the concept of deadlock and its conditions.. Learn about deadlock detection and avoidance techniques.. Study deadlock prevention strategies..

   • Unit 3: Synchronization · 2 hours

     Explore process synchronization techniques.. Understand the use of semaphores and monitors in solving synchronization problems..

4. Week 4Module 3: Process Synchronization

   • Unit 4: Synchronization Problems · 6 hours

     Study various synchronization problems, including the producer-consumer problem, the readers-writers problem, and the dining philosophers problem.. Learn how to solve these problems using synchronization primitives..

5. Week 5Module 4: Memory Management

   • Unit 1: Memory Swapping · 3 hours

     Describe memory swapping techniques.. Understand the concepts of swap in and swap out.. Learn about the advantages and disadvantages of memory swapping..

   • Unit 2: Memory Partition · 3 hours

     Explore contiguous and non-contiguous memory allocation techniques.. Understand memory partitioning and its types (fixed, variable, dynamic).. Study partition allocation methods (first fit, best fit, worst fit, next fit)..

6. Week 6Module 4: Memory Management

   • Unit 3: Virtual Memory · 6 hours

     Explain the concept of memory segmentation and paging.. Understand the differences between segmentation and paging.. Learn how to solve memory allocation issues in non-contiguous memory spaces..

7. Week 7Module 4: Memory Management

   • Unit 4: Caching and Thrashing · 6 hours

     Understand the importance of cache memory.. Learn about cache concepts, memory hierarchy, and memory cache lookup techniques.. Study the advantages of cache memory in improving system performance..

8. Week 8Module 4: Memory Management

   • Unit 5: Replacement Policies · 6 hours

     Find out the cause of thrashing in operating systems.. Demonstrate policies to address thrashing issues.. Study various page replacement algorithms (FIFO, Optimal, LRU)..

9. Week 9Module 1: Process Management

   • Unit 1: Processes and State · 6 hours

     Review process management concepts, including process states, context switching, and interrupt handling.. Practice solving problems related to process scheduling and resource allocation..

10. Week 10Module 2: Concurrency – Multithreading

    • Unit 1: Threads & Multithreading · 6 hours

      Review concurrency and multithreading concepts.. Practice writing simple multithreaded programs using Pthreads API.. Solve problems related to thread synchronization and communication..

11. Week 11Module 3: Process Synchronization

    • Unit 1: Race condition, Critical Region and Mutual Exclusion · 6 hours

      Review process synchronization concepts, including race conditions, deadlocks, and synchronization primitives.. Practice solving synchronization problems using semaphores and monitors.. Analyze and compare different synchronization techniques..

12. Week 12Module 4: Memory Management

    • Unit 1: Memory Swapping · 6 hours

      Review memory management concepts, including memory swapping, partitioning, and virtual memory.. Practice solving memory allocation problems using different allocation methods.. Analyze the performance of different memory management techniques..

13. Week 13Module 4: Memory Management

    • Unit 4: Caching and Thrashing · 6 hours

      Review caching concepts and replacement policies.. Practice solving problems related to cache memory and thrashing.. Analyze the impact of cache memory on system performance..