CMSC 421: Final Exam Study Guide

The final exam will be a set of ten essay questions from the following topics:

• Protect/Security features of an operating system
• Secondary/teriary Storage
• Disk Scheduling
• Interrupt-drive I/O
• DMA transfers
• Pipes
• Shared Memory
• File Systems
• Virtual Memory
• Memory Management
• Deadlocks
• Process Synchronization
• CPU scheduling
• Processes
• Operating Systems Structures