ISS7AC OPERATING SYSTEMS

ISS7AC

Operating Systems

ECTS Credits : 2

Duration: 21 hours

Semester : S7

Person(s) in charge :

Laurent CIARLETTA, Associate Professor, laurent.ciarletta@mines-nancy.univ-lorraine.fr

Keywords :  Hardware architecture, Operating Systems, processes, Memory

Prerequisite : Fundamentals of programming

Objective : Advanced knowledge of an operating system's operations and functions. 

Program and Contents:

Acquiring a deep knowledge of how an operating system functions in order to have a better understanding of its limits as well as its performances and being able to exploit it in the best conditions in any context.

The course will focus on the Unix/Linux operating systems.

Abilities: 

Levels

Description and operationnal verbs

Know

The constitution of an OS, its components roles and functions.

Understand

The different architectures and solutions that are deployed by the OS in order to have a sound development environment.

Apply

Input-Output with system files, network, users interface, synchronization and memory sharing.

Analyse

Debugging tools, performance measuring.

Summarise

Conception, realization and evaluation of an application on a given system.

Assess

The OS choices that we are confronted with as IT engineers.

Evaluations :

• Written Test

• Continuous Control

• Oral report

• Project

• Written Report