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Syllabus BCA206
Operating System and Unix
Gujarat University SY BCA Syllabus (Revised) Effective from June, 2006
| PART - I | 70% | |
| 1. | Introduction | 5% |
| Operating System Software | ||
| Types of Operating System | ||
| 2. | Process Management & Process Synchronization | 20% |
| Process Scheduling Policies | ||
| Process Scheduler | ||
| Scheduling Algorithms ( FCFC, SIN, Priority, SRT, RR ) | ||
| Parallel Processing | ||
| Process Synchronization | ||
| Test and set | ||
| WALL and SIGNAL | ||
| Semaphores | ||
| Process Cooperation | ||
| PProducer and Consumers | ||
| Readers and Writers | ||
| 3. | Deadlock | 8% |
| Deadlocks | ||
| Conditions for deadlock | ||
| Deadlock Modeling | ||
| Strategies for handling deadlocks | ||
| 4. | Memory Management | 15% |
| Single-User Contiguous Scheme | ||
| Fixed partition | ||
| Dynamic Parition | ||
| Allocation and Deal location Methods | ||
| Relocatable Dynamic Partition Paged Memory Allocation | ||
| Demand paging | ||
| Page replacement Algorithms ( FIFO, LRU ) | ||
| Paging | ||
| Segmentation | ||
| Virtual Memory | ||
| 5. | File Management | 10% |
| File manager | ||
| Interacting with file manager | ||
| File Organization | ||
| Physical storage allocation | ||
| Data Compression | ||
| Access Controls | ||
| 6. | Device Manage Ment | 10% |
| System Devices | ||
| Direct access storage devices | ||
| Component of the I/O subsystem | ||
| Communication among devices | ||
| management of I/O requests | ||
| Device Handler seek strategies | ||
| 7. | Introduction and Comparison of Network and Distributed Operating systems | 2% |
| PART - II LINUX / UNIX Operating System |
30% | |
| 1. | Introduction | |
| The UNIX Operating system | ||
| LINUX and GNU | ||
| The UNIX Architecture | ||
| Features of UNIX | ||
| 2. | Understanding The Unix Command | |
| Locating commands | ||
| Internal and external commands | ||
| Command structure | ||
| Flexibility of Command usage | ||
| 3. | Genral – Purpose Utilities | |
| Man | ||
| cal | ||
| date | ||
| echo | ||
| printf | ||
| bc | ||
| script | ||
| passwd | ||
| who | ||
| uname | ||
| tty | ||
| 4. | The File System Of Unix | |
| The parent – child relationship | ||
| Absolute and relative pathnames | ||
| The HOME variable | ||
| file attributes | ||
| compressing and Archiving files | ||
| Is | ||
| pwd | ||
| mkdir | ||
| cat | ||
| cp | ||
| rm | ||
| mv | ||
| more | ||
| file | ||
| wc | ||
| od | ||
| cmp | ||
| comm | ||
| diff | ||
| gzip | ||
| gunzip | ||
| tar | ||
| zip and unzip | ||
| chmod | ||
| Un | ||
| unmask | ||
| find | ||
| 5. | The Shell | |
| Working with Bourne shell and Bash shell | ||
| Wild-card, Redirection, pipes and tee | ||
| ( Any editor can be used to write shell script ) | ||
| 6. | Comunication | |
| Finger | ||
| talk | ||
| mesg | ||
| emailbasic | ||
| mailx | ||
| pi | ||
| 7. | Filters | |
| Pr | ||
| head | ||
| tail | ||
| cut | ||
| past grep | ||
| egrep | ||
| sort | ||
| uniq | ||
| tr | ||
| 8. | Shell Programming | |
| Shell scripts | ||
| read | ||
| Command line arguments | ||
| exit status command | ||
| logical operation and String handling | ||
| looping | ||
| set | ||
| shift | ||
| Document | ||
| trap | ||
| debugging | ||
| TEXT BOOK: | ||
| Understanding Operating Systems Ida M Flynn/Ann Mciver mchoes ,Thomson . Learning ( Chapters to be covered are : 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 and 10) | ||
| UNIX Concepts and Applications, Sumitabha Das 3rd Edition TMH ( Chapters to b ecovered are : 1,2,3,4,5,6,9,12,14 and 16 Some of the commands , given in the list to be covered from ch : 7,9,13,15 ) | ||
| REFERNCE BOOKS | ||
| Operating System Concepts, Silberschatz & Galvi , Addison Weslry | ||
| The Unix Programming Environment , Brain Kerninghan & Pike , PHI | ||
| Student Guide to Unix , Harley Hahn, MGH | ||
| A User Guide to Unix System , Rebecca Thomas & Yeats , TMH |
| Total Marks of this Subject | 100 Marks |
| External (University ) Examination | 70 Marks |
| Internal Sessional Examination | 20 Marks |
| Term Work | 10 Marks |
| Teaching Hours per week | 3 Hrs |
| Practicals | BASED on Unix / Linux Operating System ( Part – II ) |
Last Updated on 10th Jun 2009