The major goals for a student taking this course are

• To introduce basic as well as advance concepts in operating systems.
• To identify software design issues for modern systems.

Upon completion of this course, students should

• Understand the basic and current concepts underlying modern operating systems
• Understand important issues in the design of these concepts in modern operating systems
• Understand how the operating system's responsibilities are distributed among its components (e.g., the resource manager, the scheduler, and the memory manager).
• Understand concurrency with respect to process execution.
• Understand the levels of abstraction with respect to memory.
• Understand how the I/O system and the operating system interact.

Upon completion of this course, students should be able to

• Identify the components of the operating system
• Identify the major process scheduling algorithms and the pros and cons associated with each algorithm
• Specify the circumstances in which deadlocks occur
• Know the different levels of memory and how it is managed
• Know what a process is and what a thread is
• Know how I/O occurs.