FI:PB153 Operating Systems Applications - Course Information

PB153 Operating Systems and their Interfaces

Extent and Intensity

2/0. 2 credit(s) (plus extra credits for completion). Type of Completion: zk (examination).

Teacher(s)

Ing. Mgr. et Mgr. Zdeněk Říha, Ph.D. (lecturer)

Guaranteed by

doc. RNDr. Vlastislav Dohnal, Ph.D.
Department of Computer Systems and Communications – Faculty of Informatics
Contact Person: Ing. Mgr. et Mgr. Zdeněk Říha, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Computer Systems and Communications – Faculty of Informatics

Timetable

Wed 14:00–15:50 D3

Prerequisites

! PB152 Operating Systems &&!NOW( PB152 Operating Systems )
Basic knowledge of architectures and principles of computing systems. (at least on the level of PB150 or PB151).

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

• Applied Informatics (programme FI, B-AP)
• Bioinformatics (programme FI, B-AP)
• Economic Information Systems (programme ESF, B-SI)
• Informatics with another discipline (programme FI, B-BI)
• Informatics with another discipline (programme FI, B-EB)
• Informatics with another discipline (programme FI, B-FY)
• Informatics with another discipline (programme FI, B-GE)
• Informatics with another discipline (programme FI, B-GK)
• Informatics with another discipline (programme FI, B-CH)
• Informatics with another discipline (programme FI, B-IO)
• Informatics with another discipline (programme FI, B-MA)
• Informatics with another discipline (programme FI, B-SO)
• Informatics with another discipline (programme FI, B-TV)
• Informatics (programme FI, B-IN)
• Public Administration Informatics (programme FI, B-AP)
• Mathematical Informatics (programme FI, B-IN)
• Parallel and Distributed Systems (programme FI, B-IN)
• Computer Graphics and Image Processing (programme FI, B-IN)
• Computer Networks and Communication (programme FI, B-IN)
• Computer Systems and Data Processing (programme FI, B-IN)
• Programmable Technical Structures (programme FI, B-IN)
• Embedded Systems (programme FI, N-IN)
• Service Science, Management and Engineering (programme FI, N-AP)
• Social Informatics (programme FI, B-AP)
• Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing (programme FI, B-IN)

Course objectives

At the end of the course students will be able to understand and explain the basics of operating systems architectures, processes, memory and I/O management, filesystems. Based on the acquired knowledge student will be able to use services (API) offered by common OS types (Unix, Linux, Windows).

Syllabus

• Operating systems architectures, kernel, interfaces, services
• Process management, processes, threads, scheduling, process synchronization
• Memory management
• IO Management, File systems
• Interfaces and services of Unix, Linux and Windows.

Literature

recommended literature
• SILBERSCHATZ, Abraham, Peter B. GALVIN and Greg GAGNE. Operating system concepts with Java. 7th ed. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, 2007, xxiv, 966. ISBN 9780471769071. info
• SILBERSCHATZ, Abraham, Peter B. GALVIN and Greg GAGNE. Applied operating system concepts. 1st ed. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2000, xviii, 840. ISBN 0471365084. info
• STALLINGS, William. Operating systems :internals and design principles. 4th ed. Upper Saddle River: Prentice-Hall, 2001, xviii, 779. ISBN 0-13-031999-6. info

Teaching methods

lectures

Assessment methods

Written test (scanned by IS), to pass at least 50% of points is required.

Language of instruction

Czech

Further Comments

Study Materials
The course is taught annually.

Listed among pre-requisites of other courses

• PB152 Operating Systems
  !PB153&&!NOW(PB153)  
• PB152cv Operating Systems - practicals
  (PB153 || PB152) && (PB111 || PB071 || SOUHLAS)  

• Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2014, recent)
  
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