CS 308 Operating Systems / CS 331 Computer Networks

CS 331 HW 1:

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CS308 Operating Systems Study Guide
Part I: (Chapter 1) Overview –Introduction (1.1 – 1.4)
What is an Operating System?
What are the main purposes of the Operating System?
Efficient or Convenient Design? (Give an example of each)
How does a user interact with the computer hardware? (the layout)
List the main components to a computer system and their function.
What does it mean to “boot up?”
Describe the Information Processing Cycle.
Describe the Application Processing Cycle.
Describe three computer system architectures.
What is multiprogramming?
What is Time Sharing/Multitasking?
Describe volatile vs. non-volatile storage
What is main memory?
What is secondary storage?
Computer System Design: Single processor Vs. Multi-processor
Illustrate a single processor chip and a dual core chip including access to main memory.
What is a blade server?
What is symmetric multi-processing (SMP)?
What is a clustered system? And how is the system connected?
What is the difference between job scheduling and CPU scheduling?
Compare graceful degradation and fault tolerant system.
How are standard applications processed?
How are parallelization applications processed?