CIS250 – Operating Systems

LEHIGH CARBON COMMUNITY COLLEGE

CIS 250 – OPERATING SYSTEMS

Labs should be completed during the allotted lab time. Instructor must sign-off lab upon completion.

Week	Assignment
1	Review lab environment DOS lab using default drives
2, 3,4	Install VMWare Workstation; Install Windows XP; environment, administration tools: groups, policies, profiles
5, 6, 7	Install Windows 2003; Add groups, policies, profiles. - shares, permissions, RAS, System Monitor, VPN
8	Linux server introduction: telnet; shell commands, shell scripting
9, 10, 11, 12	Linux install, administration, GNOME
13, 14	Install Windows Vista, Vista Administration Install Windows 7 and compare to Vista.

CIS 250 Lecture Syllabus

Assignments are to be submitted at the beginning of class of the lecture week indicated.

Week	Lecture	Subject	Assignment
1	Introduction Pre-test OS Survey	Preface On-line resources Text contents Pre-test http://computer.howstuffworks.com/operating-system.htm Chapter 1: Introduction	Read Chapter 1 in text; Review Practice Exercises 1, 5, 8,10,12. Do Exercises: 1.13, 1.17, 1.29
2	Ch 2	System Structures	Read chapter 2, problems: 2.1, 2.7, 2.9 2.19, 2.23, 2.24
3	Ch 3 Quiz	Processes	Ch 3; problems: 3.1, 3.3, 3.6, 3.7, 3.14: explain Fibonacci only
4	Ch 4	Threads Test Review	Ch 4. 4.2, 4.4; 4.11 and define the types of threads Prepare for test
5	Test 1: ch 1-4	WIN2K lecture Begin Ch. 5	Read Ch 5; Ch 5; 5.2, 5.3. 5.12, 5.13
6	Ch. 5	CPU Scheduling Review test; Presentation defined; form groups;	Technical research for presentations
7	Case Study	Independent research.
8	Ch.6;	Synchronization	Ch. 6 6.2, 6.3,6.5, 6.6 6.11, 6.19, 6.33, Describe the Producer-Consumer problem
9	Ch. 7 Quiz	Deadlocks; Linux lecture	Ch. 7; 7.1, 7.5, 7.9 7.10, 7,15, 7.20
10	Ch. 8	Main Memory	Ch. 8; 8.1, 8.4. 8.9, 8.17, 8.23 Prepare for test
11	Test 2: 5, 6, 7, 8	Review for test Test	Prepare for test
12	Ch.19	Real-Time Systems	Ch. 19:1, 2,3,4,5,6
13	Presentations		Work on Presentations
14	Ch. 20	Multimedia Systems Review	Ch. 20: 1, 2,3,4,5,9
15	Ch. 15	Security	Ch. 15: 15.1, 2, 4,7 Prepare for final