BCA Semester-IV^th - Operating System Syllabus

Here you will find the syllabus of second subject in BCA Semester-IV^th, which is Operating System.

Important - The syllabus may vary from college to college.

Operating System Units

This course/subject is divided into total of 5 units as given below:

1. Introduction
2. Processes
3. Deadlocks
4. Device Management
5. Information Management

Now let's expand the above listed units with its syllabus.

Unit-I Syllabus - Introduction

Here are the list of topics that comes under the syllabus of unit-I, that is introduction of operating system:

• Introduction of an operating system
• What is an operating system ?
• Simple Batch Systems
• Multi-programmed Batch systems
• Time Sharing Systems
• Personal Computer (PC) Systems
• Parallel systems
• Distributed systems
• Real-Time Systems
• Memory Management
  • Background
  • Logical versus physical Address space
  • Swapping
  • Contiguous allocation
  • Paging
  • Segmentation
• Virtual Memory
  • Demand Paging
  • Page Replacement
  • Page replacement Algorithms
  • Performance of Demand Paging
  • Allocation of Frames
  • Thrashing
  • Other Considerations

Unit-II Syllabus - Processes

Here are the list of topics that comes under the syllabus of unit-II, that is processes:

• Process Concept
• Process Scheduling
• Operation on Processes
• CPU Scheduling
  • Basic Concepts
  • Scheduling Criteria
  • Scheduling Algorithms
  • Multiprocessor Scheduling
• Process Synchronization
  • Background
  • The Critical Section Problem
  • Synchronization Hardware
  • Semaphores
  • Classical Problems of Synchronization

Unit-III Syllabus - Deadlocks

Here are the list of topics that comes under the syllabus of unit-III, that is deadlocks:

• System Model
• Deadlock Characterization
• Methods for Handling Deadlocks
• Deadlock prevention
• Deadlock Avoidance
• Deadlock Detection
• Recovery from Deadlock

Unit-IV Syllabus - Device Management

Here are the list of topics that comes under the syllabus of unit-IV, that is device management:

• Techniques for Device Management
• Dedicated Devices
• Shared Devices
• Virtual Devices
• Input or Output Devices
• Storage Devices
• Buffering
• Secondary Storage Structure
  • Disk Structure
  • Disk Scheduling
  • Disk Management
  • Swap-Space Management
  • Disk Reliability

Unit-V Syllabus - Information Management

Here are the list of topics that comes under the syllabus of unit-V, that is information management:

• Introduction
• A Simple File system
• General Model of a File System
• Symbolic File System
• Basic File System
• Access Control Verification
• Logical File System
• Physical File system
• File System Interface
• File Concept
• Access Methods
• Directory Structure
• Protection
• Consistency Semantics File System Implementation
  • File System Structure
  • Allocation Methods
  • Free Space Management