Quizzes - 10% Individual Assignment - 15% Presentation - 15% Group Assignment - 20% Final Exam - 40%

1.1 What is computer system? 1.2 What is processor register 1.3 Instruction Execution 1.4 Interrupts 1.5 The memory hierarchy 1.6 Cache memory

2.1 What is Operating System? 2.2 Why Operating System is needed? 2.3 What kinds are there? 2.4 What is the function of Operating Systems?

3.1 What is the function of Processor? 3.2 What is process? 3.3 2 state model 3.4 5 state model 3.5 7 state model 3.6 Process Description 3.7 Principles of Concurrency 3.8 Principles of Deadlock

4.1 What is Threads? 4.2 Threads compared with processes 4.3 What is Symmetric Multiprocessing 4.4 What is the purpose of SMP 4.5 The relationships between threads and processes 4.6 What is kernel 4.7 The categories of kernels

5.1 What is memory management 5.2 The memory management technique 5.2.1 Fixed Partitioning 5.2.2 Dynamic Partitioning 5.2.3 Simple Paging

6.1 Hardware and Control Structures 6.2 The execution of program 6.3 Types of Memory

7.1 I/O Devices 7.2 Organization Of The I/O Function 7.3 I/O Buffering

8.1 What is File Management 8.2 File System Properties 8.3 Criteria for File Organization

9.1 Client/Server Computing 9.2 Clusters 9.3 Computer Security Threats 9.4 Computer Security Techniques