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COMP25111 - Operating Systems

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Virtualisation
Where are the two main places we ...,
What is the principle of virtuali...,
Describe virtual machines
11  cards
Processes
What is a program,
What is a process,
What is context
34  cards
Exceptions
What is an exception,
What exceptions are handled by th...,
What examples of hardware excepti...
15  cards
Virtual Memory
What is virtual memory,
What are the benefits of virtual ...,
What is paging or swapping
26  cards
Queues
What is a queue,
What is a pointer,
Describe a cyclic buffer
11  cards
Process Scheduling
What is a scheduler,
What processing modes are there a...,
What are the process states
10  cards
Atomicity
What is atomicity,
How can we assure atomicity,
What cant happen during an atomic...
3  cards
Eager and Lazy loading
What principle does eager and laz...,
What is eager loading,
What are the benefits disadvantag...
5  cards
Ordering
What is asynchronous execution,
What is a race condition,
How can we create ordering or syn...
11  cards
Resources: Input and Output
How does the os interface with io,
Give examples of stream devices,
Give examples of block devices
9  cards
Resources: Memory
What is memory made up of,
What is an address space,
What is ram
10  cards
Resources: Caching
What is caching,
What principles does caching work on,
Give examples of caching
6  cards
User
What are two ways a user can inte...,
What is a filing system,
What does the file store filing s...
42  cards
Security
What is the main concern for the ...,
How do we block users from changi...,
How is a users account protected
15  cards
Kernel
Where does the kernel reside and ...,
How does the user space connect w...,
What does the kernel do
10  cards

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