Outcomes:

1. Evaluate process management techniques.

2. Analyse different memory management strategies.

3. Become aware of the issues of operating systems in regards storage management.

4. Analyse the issues of protection and security

Tasks: Read the following four tasks, understand and present your response in a document not more than 10 pages.

Task 1:

Submit a work proposal for this assignment by the end of week 9.

Task 2:

a. You can read the article "Deadlock Resolution Techniques: An Overview by Pooja Chahar and Surjeet Dalal" which highlights the key aspects needed to consider while resolving deadlock conditions in OS. Justify the role played by the OS in managing the processes to avoid deadlock in the given article.

b. You can read the research article "Robust Memory Management using Real Time Concepts by Karthikeyan, Ravi and M. Anand" which highlights the key aspects of Operating system's memory management mechanism. Provide a reflection in your own words not more than 250 words related to Memory Management in Operating System.

Task 3:

Choose any suitable telecommunication organization in Oman. Research the selected organisation by analyzing the issues of protection and security. You may obtain data from the organisation's website or people of the organisation or even from various sources in the library, etc. Besides, you will be given research articles, hand-outs and case studies to study and analyse. Based on the research and information gathered, execute following tasks making suitable additional assumptions:

a. Discuss the organisation storage management.

b. Debate on the organisation security and protection policy related to Operating System.

Task 4:

Proper documentation and references using CU-Harvard style.