All lecture notes up to Lecture 10
Chapters 1, 2, 3, and 5 in the textbook

Introduction (Chapter 1, lecture 1):
  Concepts:   
    Where does the OS fit in?
    difference between hardware interface and OS interface
    typical OS functions
    kernel mode/user mode
    resources managed by OS
  
Concurrency, processes, and system calls (Chapters 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2,4, lecture 2)
  Concepts: 
    concurrency, issues related to concurrency, process, 
    process context, system call

OS interfaces (Lectures 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
  system calls
    process management: fork(), exit(), execv(), wait()
    file and I/O operation: open(), create(), dup(), read(), write(), lseek(),
                            stat()
    Inter-process communication: pipe()
    Signal handling: signal(), sigprocmask(), sigaction()

  Concepts and techniques:
    I/O redirection, catching signal, blocking signal, 

Process management (Lecture 8, Chapters 3.1, 3.2, 3.3)

  concepts and techniques:
    process, process context, process control block, context switching,
    dispatching loop, mechanism for the OS to regain control,
    information to be saved to maintain context,  
    process state transition

CPU scheduling (Lecture 9, Chapters 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.6, 5.7, 5.8)

  concepts and techniques:
    the cases when CPU scheduling happens
    job queue/ready queue/device queue
    Performance metrics: CPU utilization, throughput, turnaround time, 
    wait time, response time, fairness
    Deterministic modeling for analyzing a CPU scheduling algorithm
    preemptive and non-preemptive 
    Scheduling policies, their strengths and weaknesses: FIFO, Round Robin, 
    SJF, priority scheduling, multilevel feedback queues, lottery scheduling
    
Genesis: from raw hardware to processes (Lecture 10, Chapter 2.11)

  concepts: OS booting sequence

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concepts and techniques: 
   define the concepts (What), 
   explain how each technique works (How),
   apply techniques to new situations (e.g. use deterministic modeling for 
   analyzing new policies).

OS interface: Need to know all the tricks you use in your make project, such 
   as I/O redirection and pipe.

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Question types:

  1. True/False  (40)
  2. definition and short explanation (10) 
  3. Longer questions (testing your understanding of 
     various concepts and/or techniques) (20) 
  4. OS interface programming (project 1 related) (30)