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Decks in this class (21)
Week 1
What does an os do,
What were computers like in the e...,
What did early machines have 1950...
20
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Week 2
What is the shell,
Define these terms binariesproces...,
What are these common shells whic...
30
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Week 3
What are some general characteris...,
What does it mean for a language ...,
What is a compiled language
21
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Week 4
What is the process,
Are processes tied to a specific ...,
What hardware does the concept of...
26
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Week 5
What questions do scheduling have...,
What is the workload in the sched...,
How is effectiveness is schedulin...
18
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Week 6
What is the stack,
What is the heap,
Explain malloc and free
18
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Quiz 5
One way to allow multiple process...,
The following code is correct fro...,
What happens when a process attem...
15
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Quiz 1 (Intro & Shell)
In an operating system ______ mem...,
Early consumer pc os es such as m...,
Suppose a process needs to call t...
15
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Quiz 2
Stack allocated variables continu...,
Does a variable allocated using m...,
In c the programmer is responsibl...
15
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Quiz 3 (Processes)
The following command is the corr...,
What happens if i run int ptr 0 p...,
The act of switching processes be...
15
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Quiz 4 Scheduling
In a context switch a process is ...,
What is a disadvantage of fifo it...,
Consider a sjf scheduler which re...
7
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Week 7
Suppose we have the following 010...,
What are the steps for converting...,
How does the os find a free page
20
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Week 8
What is concurrency,
At the process level programmers ...,
Unless explicitly synchronized pr...
28
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Week 9
What are the design goals for cou...,
What is a sloppy counter,
What are condition variables
10
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Week 11
What is persistent storage,
What are the requirements for os ...,
How does the os keep track of how...
18
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Week 12
To be useful cpu needs access to ...,
Generally speaking the more data ...,
What are the relative speeds of t...
36
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Quiz 6
What happens in the case of a tlb...,
Tlb stands for transaction lookas...,
What does temporal locality refer...
14
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Quiz 7
What is thread local storage,
Spinlocks work quite well on mult...,
In programming a race condition i...
15
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Quiz 8
An approximate counter represents...,
What is a condition variable just...,
Semaphores cannot be used to enfo...
15
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Quiz 9
How can an os quickly find free s...,
What is the lseek function used f...,
A superblock is a special type of...
15
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Quiz 10
What does the principle of econom...,
What are the security related goa...,
What does the principle of least ...
15
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