Learning Outcomes

Having completed this course, you should be able to:

• Define the concept of deadlock in an operating system
• Discuss the resource allocation graph and its uses
• Analyze the various deadlock avoidance policies
• Explain the algorithm for various instances and how they impact on deadlock
• Discuss the concept of the detection algorithm
• Discuss the resource types for the detection algorithm
• Explain the concept of memory management in operating systems
• Discuss binding instructions and memory management units
• Analyze the various memory management policies
• Differentiate between fragmentation and segmentation
• Explain the concept of paging hardware and the models of paging
• Discuss the various ways to allocate frames to a new process
• Explain the memory page table organization strategy