EECS 482 --- Winter 1999

Final Exam Reading List

Final Exam Date: April 23
Time: 7:30pm-9:30pm
Place: EECS 1500, EECS 1200, and EECS 1001

The final exam is comprehensive and closed book. Approximately 80% of the grade will be based on the material since the spring break (see the bullets below for the exact reading list). About 20% will cover material before memory management (see the mid-term reading list). You are allowed to bring a single page of notes with you to the exam.

The list of reading material for the final exam is as follows:

• Memory management: Chapter 8.1-8.6
• Demand Paging: Chapter 9.1-9.3
• Page Replacement Algorithms: Chapter 9.4-9.5
• Solaris Memory Management Handout - Two-handed clock alg.
• Thrashing: Chapter 9.7
• File Systems: Chapter 10.1-10.3, 11.1-11.3
• UNIX file system implementation handouts
• Interprocess communication:
  Client/server handout (Tanenbaum Chapter 2.3)
  RPC handout handout (from Tanenbaum Chapter 2.4)
  Socket programming overview handouts
  
• Disk I/O:
  Background material - Chapter 2.3.2, 12.2.3
  Scheduling scheduling - Chapter 13.1-13.2
• Security: only the handout on cryptography