uLektz Skills

Learning Path

Non-Linear: Random Order

About the Course

Course Objective

An Operating system is an interface between the user and the computer hardware. It controls the execution of application software and manages the computer hardware. This course isn't meant to create an OS from scratch, but to teach you about the basic knowledge of how an operating system works as we know some or the other times users are very oblivious of how they are using a computer. To fully understand how your program works, you should have a general understanding of what's going on behind the scenes. It definitely makes you a better coder. If you understand that system resources like threads, file-system, memory, CPU etc...aren't just black boxes that "just work", you can code around their bottlenecks.

The course will cover almost all the basic terms, terminologies, concepts right away from an introduction to operating system, to all other related mechanisms like process, scheduling, threads, deadlocks, memory management, synchronization, file systems etc.

In the end a student will be able to develop an understanding of how the operating system works and in turn that will gain valuable insight into how the other disciplines of computer science field operates, as your interaction with those disciplines is managed by the operating system.

Outcomes

After going through this course material a students will be able :

1. To use operating system daily as Operating systems are everywhere.

2. To learn basic components of a system design so that he/she can extend the features of operating system in future.

3. To find and solve any problem occurring in operating system.

4. And most importantly they will understand, why/how to manage the computer resources efficiently and effectively, as system resources are limited.

Minimum Prerequisites:

1. Graduate standing in computer science or computer engineering.

2. Familiarity with basic data structures, computer organization, programming language like C, basic Unix commands, system utilities etc.

Description:

This OS course material is divided in the way of chapters ranging from 1 to 10, in the form of small modules. Almost all the chapters starts with basic background relevant to that particular topic making it easier to understand, along with MCQ. The very basic description of contents that will be covered in subsequent chapters is provided over here in tabular format.

Course Study Materials

Module 1: Introduction

1.1 Introduction
Introduction - Assessment 15 Questions

Module 2: Process

2.1 Process
Process - Assessment 22 Questions

Module 3: Threads

3.1 Threads
Threads - Assessment 20 Questions

Module 4: Process Scheduling

4.1 Process Scheduling
Process Scheduling - Assessment 20 Questions

Module 5: Process Synchronization

5.1 Process Synchronization
Process Synchronization - Assessment 20 Questions

Module 6: Memory Organization and Management

6.1 Memory Organization and Management
Memory Organization and Management - Assessment 22 Questions

Module 7: Virtual Memory

7.1 Virtual Memory
Virtual Memory - Assessment 22 Questions

Module 8: Deadlock

8.1 Deadlock
Deadlock - Assessment 20 Questions

Module 9: Device Management

9.1 Device Management
Device Management - Assessment 27 Questions

Module 10: File System

10.1 File System
File System - Assessment 23 Questions

Final Assessment

Final Assessment 20 Questions

The certificate issued for the Course will have

Student's Name
Photograph
Course Title
Certificate Number
Date of Course Completion
Name(s) and Logo(s) of the Certifying Bodies

Only the e-certificate will be made available. No Hard copies. The certificates issued by The Academic Council of uLektz. can be e-verifiable at www.ulektzskills.com/verify.

Students will be assessed both at the end of each module and at the end of the Course.
Students scoring a minimum of 50% in the assessments are considered for Certifications