About the Course

Operating System Fundamentals is a graduate-level certificate course in operating systems. This course addresses all about the basic operating system abstractions, mechanisms, and their implementations. The core of the course contains concurrent programming (threads and synchronization), inter-process communication, memory management, and File systems.

Why Take This Course?

Some of the main goals for this course are;

Students will be exposed to theoretical and practical knowledge and understanding regarding operating systems concepts
Students will understand the rationale behind current OSs (like Linux) designs and implementations depending on the evolution of various OS constructs

Requirements

No prior technical experience is required

Course Curriculum

Total learning: 17 lessons Time: 8 weeks

Lessons 17

Lecture1.1

Introduction
Lecture1.2

Introduction to OS Concepts
Lecture1.3

Introduction OS: Processes
Lecture1.4

System calls
Lecture1.5

Operating system structure
Lecture1.6

Processes &Threads
Lecture1.7

Memory management
Lecture1.8

Design issues for paging system
Lecture1.9

Implementation issues
Lecture1.10

Segmentation
Lecture1.11

File systems
Lecture1.12

I/O
Lecture1.13

Dead locks
Lecture1.14

Multimedia O.S
Lecture1.15

Multiple processor systems
Lecture1.16

Security
Lecture1.17

Mode of delivery

ABOUT INSTRUCTOR

IFIS

IFIS provides comprehensive and realistic business-critical Computer Based Training (CBT) solutions for those responsible for and/or considering a career in a typical heterogeneous computing environment.