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1. The Process Abstraction
What exactly is an abstraction,
How do abstractions simplify appl...,
How is a file an example of abstr...
19
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0. Midterm Questions
What is gwas special talent,
Which of the following is a requi...,
Intra process within communicatio...
43
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2. Processes and File Handles
What do threads do,
What does the address space do,
What do files do
11
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3. Fork() and Pipe()
How is a process created,
What does fork do,
What are the two major problems w...
16
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4. Synchronization
What do threads do,
How does the os create the illusi...,
Why is the illusion of concurrenc...
33
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5. Deadlock and Exec
What do locks do,
Walk through the steps of acquiri...,
What is deadlock
17
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6. Interrupt and Exception Handling
What is the most challenging part...,
Describe how a process dies,
What does wait do
28
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7. Context Switching
What is the one historical limita...,
Why do computers come with multip...,
What is batch scheduling
16
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8. Threads and Thread Implementations
What makes up a thread,
What are problems with the cpu th...,
What is batch scheduling
26
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9. Intro to Scheduling
What are the three states of a th...,
Why does a thread transition from...,
Why does a thread transition from...
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17. Swapping
What two things happen when we ru...,
What are the requirements for hav...,
What is swapping
18
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10. Simple Schedulers
What three pieces of information ...,
Describe the steps of random sche...,
Describe the steps of round robin...
10
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11. A Scheduling Story
How do oracular schedulers predic...,
Describe the process of implement...,
What happens to cpu bound threads...
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12. Intro to Memory Management
What is time multiplexing,
What are three examples of time m...,
What is space multiplexing
25
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13. Virtual Addresses
Where does the stack start and wh...,
Where does the heap start and whi...,
Will the stack and the heap ever ...
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14. Address Translation
What does the hardware memory man...,
What does the os memory managemen...,
When considering virtual address ...
18
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15. Page Translation
Ideally what do we want from addr...,
Segments are too large leading to...,
What is execution locality
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18. Page Replacement
On certain architectures the mmu ...,
What is a tlb fault,
What is a page fault
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16. Paging
What two things do we need to do ...,
What is a page table entry pte,
What are the 4 parts of a page ta...
12
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19. Disks
What is stable storage,
What are the two categories of st...,
Describe the hard drive category ...
26
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20. Files
What does a file have to do to be...,
What are the two minimum expectat...,
What are a few causes of data los...
14
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21. Intro to File Systems
What are the 5 components of the ...,
What does a hierarchical file sys...,
Describe how location plays a rol...
16
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22. File System Data Structures
What is an inode,
What information is contained in ...,
How does the system translate an ...
11
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23. File System Caching and Consistency
How do we make a big slow thing l...,
What is a buffer cache,
What are two ways that operating ...
26
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24. Journaling and FFS
What is not atomic when it comes ...,
What is atomic when it comes to c...,
What is journaling
27
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25. Log-Structured File Systems
From 1982 to 1991 what happened t...,
How do we make a big slow thing l...,
What do we call the memory used t...
21
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26. RAID
Describe workshop papers,
Describe conference papers,
Describe journal papers
26
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27. Full Virtualization
What does it mean for an operatin...,
What is a guest os,
How do virtual machines differ fr...
29
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28. Xen and the Art of Virtualization
What kind of paper is xen and the...,
Whats the wrong way part of xen a...,
What is the tradeoff to employing...
21
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29. Container Virtualization
How did we create a virtual machine,
What are the three implications o...,
How do we create a virtual operat...
24
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30. Performance and Benchmarking
Why do we care about os system pe...,
What is the four step process of ...,
Why is measuring system performan...
12
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31. Amdahl's Law
Before performing an experiment a...,
Why should we be wary of the prem...,
Why are outliers special and dese...
14
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32. LA: Hints for Computer System Design
What are 8 hints that butler lamp...,
Describe the hint separate normal...,
Describe the hint plan to throw o...
9
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33. LA: OS Implications of Fast, Cheap, Non-Volatile Memory
Lets say we have a new nvram syst...,
Explain why paging and 4k page si...,
Explain why unifying memory and f...
10
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34. Short Answer Questions_Final
We have described at least two pl...,
Describe the difference between f...,
State amdahls law and describe ho...
13
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35. Medium Length Questions_Final
We discussed three types of virtu...,
We discussed three types of virtu...,
We discussed three types of virtu...
3
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36. LA: Cross-Device I/O Sharing
Alice has music playing on her sm...
1
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