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AIUS-OS.AE1
OS
- Practice in 14 Hands-On Labs — nothing to install
- 19 Interactive Lessons and 248 topics mapped to the official exam objectives
- 61 Practice Test Questions
Beginner Self-paced · 1 year access
14 Hands-On LiveLabs
Practice real IT tasks in guided environments.
- Real environments
- Auto-graded
- No installation
19Interactive Lessons
248Topics
14LiveLab
61Practice Test Questions
1346Flashcards
1346Glossary of terms
01 / Lessons & labs
See exactly what you will learn and practice
Lessons
19 Interactive Lessons · 248 topics01 Introduction 16 topics · 3 LiveLab +
- What Operating Systems Do
- Computer-System Organization
- Computer-System Architecture
- Operating-System Operations
- Resource Management
- Security and Protection
- Virtualization
- Distributed Systems
- Kernel Data Structures
- Computing Environments
- Free and Open-Source Operating Systems
- Summary
- Practice Exercises
- Exercises
- Further Reading
- Bibliography
3 LiveLab in this lesson — see the labs panel →
02 Operating-System Structures 15 topics · 3 LiveLab +
- Operating-System Services
- User and Operating-System Interface
- System Calls
- System Services
- Linkers and Loaders
- Why Applications Are Operating-System Specific
- Operating-System Design and Implementation
- Operating-System Structure
- Building and Booting an Operating System
- Operating-System Debugging
- Summary
- Practice Exercises
- Exercises
- Further Reading
- Bibliography
3 LiveLab in this lesson — see the labs panel →
03 Processes 13 topics · 1 LiveLab +
- Process Concept
- Process Scheduling
- Operations on Processes
- Interprocess Communication
- IPC in Shared-Memory Systems
- IPC in Message-Passing Systems
- Examples of IPC Systems
- Communication in Client–Server Systems
- Summary
- Practice Exercises
- Exercises
- Further Reading
- Bibliography
1 LiveLab in this lesson — see the labs panel →
04 Threads & Concurrency 12 topics · 1 LiveLab +
- Overview
- Multicore Programming
- Multithreading Models
- Thread Libraries
- Implicit Threading
- Threading Issues
- Operating-System Examples
- Summary
- Practice Exercises
- Exercises
- Further Reading
- Bibliography
1 LiveLab in this lesson — see the labs panel →
05 CPU Scheduling 13 topics · 1 LiveLab +
- Basic Concepts
- Scheduling Criteria
- Scheduling Algorithms
- Thread Scheduling
- Multi-Processor Scheduling
- Real-Time CPU Scheduling
- Operating-System Examples
- Algorithm Evaluation
- Summary
- Practice Exercises
- Exercises
- Further Reading
- Bibliography
1 LiveLab in this lesson — see the labs panel →
06 Synchronization Tools 14 topics +
- Background
- The Critical-Section Problem
- Peterson's Solution
- Hardware Support for Synchronization
- Mutex Locks
- Semaphores
- Monitors
- Liveness
- Evaluation
- Summary
- Practice Exercises
- Exercises
- Further Reading
- Bibliography
07 Synchronization Examples 10 topics +
- Classic Problems of Synchronization
- Synchronization within the Kernel
- POSIX Synchronization
- Synchronization in Java
- Alternative Approaches
- Summary
- Practice Exercises
- Exercises
- Further Reading
- Bibliography
08 Deadlocks 13 topics · 1 LiveLab +
- System Model
- Deadlock in Multithreaded Applications
- Deadlock Characterization
- Methods for Handling Deadlocks
- Deadlock Prevention
- Deadlock Avoidance
- Deadlock Detection
- Recovery from Deadlock
- Summary
- Practice Exercises
- Exercises
- Further Reading
- Bibliography
1 LiveLab in this lesson — see the labs panel →
09 Main Memory 12 topics +
- Background
- Contiguous Memory Allocation
- Paging
- Structure of the Page Table
- Swapping
- Example: Intel 32- and 64-bit Architectures
- Example: ARMv8 Architecture
- Summary
- Practice Exercises
- Exercises
- Further Reading
- Bibliography
10 Virtual Memory 15 topics · 2 LiveLab +
- Background
- Demand Paging
- Copy-on-Write
- Page Replacement
- Allocation of Frames
- Thrashing
- Memory Compression
- Allocating Kernel Memory
- Other Considerations
- Operating-System Examples
- Summary
- Practice Exercises
- Exercises
- Further Reading
- Bibliography
2 LiveLab in this lesson — see the labs panel →
11 Mass-Storage Structure 13 topics · 1 LiveLab +
- Overview of Mass-Storage Structure
- HDD Scheduling
- NVM Scheduling
- Error Detection and Correction
- Storage Device Management
- Swap-Space Management
- Storage Attachment
- RAID Structure
- Summary
- Practice Exercises
- Exercises
- Further Reading
- Bibliography
1 LiveLab in this lesson — see the labs panel →
12 I/O Systems 12 topics +
- Overview
- I/O Hardware
- Application I/O Interface
- Kernel I/O Subsystem
- Transforming I/O Requests to Hardware Operations
- STREAMS
- Performance
- Summary
- Practice Exercises
- Exercises
- Further Reading
- Bibliography
13 File-System Interface 10 topics +
- File Concept
- Access Methods
- Directory Structure
- Protection
- Memory-Mapped Files
- Summary
- Practice Exercises
- Exercises
- Further Reading
- Bibliography
14 File-System Implementation 13 topics · 1 LiveLab +
- File-System Structure
- File-System Operations
- Directory Implementation
- Allocation Methods
- Free-Space Management
- Efficiency and Performance
- Recovery
- Example: The WAFL File System
- Summary
- Practice Exercises
- Exercises
- Further Reading
- Bibliography
1 LiveLab in this lesson — see the labs panel →
15 File-System Internals 13 topics +
- File Systems
- File-System Mounting
- Partitions and Mounting
- File Sharing
- Virtual File Systems
- Remote File Systems
- Consistency Semantics
- NFS
- Summary
- Practice Exercises
- Exercises
- Further Reading
- Bibliography
16 Security 11 topics +
- The Security Problem
- Program Threats
- System and Network Threats
- Cryptography as a Security Tool
- User Authentication
- Implementing Security Defenses
- An Example: Windows 10
- Summary
- Exercises
- Further Reading
- Bibliography
17 Protection 17 topics +
- Goals of Protection
- Principles of Protection
- Protection Rings
- Domain of Protection
- Access Matrix
- Implementation of the Access Matrix
- Revocation of Access Rights
- Role-Based Access Control
- Mandatory Access Control (MAC)
- Capability-Based Systems
- Other Protection Improvement Methods
- Language-Based Protection
- Summary
- Practice Exercises
- Exercises
- Further Reading
- Bibliography
18 Virtual Machines 12 topics +
- Overview
- History
- Benefits and Features
- Building Blocks
- Types of VMs and Their Implementations
- Virtualization and Operating-System Components
- Examples
- Virtualization Research
- Summary
- Exercises
- Further Reading
- Bibliography
19 Networks and Distributed Systems 14 topics +
- Advantages of Distributed Systems
- Network Structure
- Communication Structure
- Network and Distributed Operating Systems
- Design Issues in Distributed Systems
- Distributed File Systems
- DFS Naming and Transparency
- Remote File Access
- Final Thoughts on Distributed File Systems
- Summary
- Practice Exercises
- Exercises
- Further Reading
- Bibliography
Hands-On Labs Our edge
14 LiveLabs- Understanding the Storage-Device Hierarchy
- Understanding the Transition from User to Kernel Mode
- Understanding Types of Linked Lists
- Understanding the System Calls
- Understanding the Procedure of Executing a Program
- Understanding the Structure of Darwin
- Learning the Process State Diagram
- Understanding the Multithreading Models
- Understanding Dispatch Latency
- Understanding the Safety Algorithm
- Understanding Steps in Handling a Page Fault
- Understanding Page Replacement Algorithms
- Understanding the Types of Disk Scheduling Algorithms
- Understanding the Allocation Methods
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