Purpose of the assessment (with ULO Mapping)

The purpose of this assignment is to report on some important characteristics of Operating Systems. Students must answer Multiple Answer questions and provide written answer about process, file and device management, deadlock, and UNIX commands. After successful completion of this assignment, students should be able to:

a. Report on the basics, and provide examples, of operating systems structure and functionality, including memory allocation, virtual memory, demand paging and process and devicemanagement.

b. Describe the integration of hardware, operating systems and application software.

c. Explain in detail the functioning of some devices such as peripherals (e.g. printers and network connections).

d. Discuss the most common file systems structure andtechnology.

e. Explain the concept of user interfaces and their role in the functionality of an OS.

f. Demonstrate competency in the use of a command line interface to operate with and manage an OS such as UNIX, and perform simple UNIX (Linux) administration.

g. Support and troubleshoot operating systems and applications at an introductorylevel.