CS3431 - Midterm Examination

The midterm for CS3431, Winter 1998 will be on Tuesday, February 10 during our normal 1.5 hour class period. The exam will be CLOSED BOOK, CLOSED NOTES. All material covered in any of the assigned readings from chapters 1 through 6 in the textbook, or anything we discussed in class is potential material. However, you don't need any rote memorization, (I'm not going to ask things such as "What year was the MULTIX operating system developed?) meaning I hope the exam will quiz your understanding of the material rather than memorizing it.

In particular, since we spent so much time on pthreads (with the associated mutexes and condition variables) in class, you can expect at least one question on this. We spent a lot of time on operating system structures and system calls, so expect at least one question on this. Two complete lectures were spent on CPU Scheduling algorithms, and three lectures covered mutual exclusion algorithms and semaphores, so it seems reasonable that there will be questions on these things. We studied processes and operations on processes, so expect something on that. We covered in detail Interprocess Communications (IPC), so expect a question on that.

In general, if you have attended class regularly, read the textbook, and understood our in-class discussions, you can expect to do reasonably well.

Contact Information:

riley@cc.gatech.edu
College of Computing
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA 30332-0280

Last Modified: Feb. 4, 1998