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Operating System Concepts
Ninth Edition
Avi Silberschatz
Peter Baer Galvin
Greg Gagne


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Review Questions

We provide Review Questions for the Ninth Edition of Operating System Concepts , by Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne. We provide Review Questions for the Second Edition of Operating System Concepts Essentials , by Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne. These review questions have been developed from consultation from professors who have adopted this text for an operating systems class. The purpose behind these questions is for professors to easily quiz students to ensure students are reading the assigned materials. These are not difficult questions and the answers can easily be derived from reading the text associated with each question. The questions are organized according to section.

The material below are copyright by Silberschatz, Galvin, and Gagne, 2013. Use of the material is authorized for personal use, and for use in conjunction with a course for which Operating System Concepts is the prescribed text. Any use that differs from the above, and any for profit sale of the manual (in any form) requires the consent of the copyright owners; contact Avi Silberschatz (avi@cs.yale.edu) to obtain the copyright owners consent.

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Chapter Exercises
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Part 1: Overview
1. Introduction
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2. Operating-System Structures
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Part 2: Process Management
3. Processes
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4. Threads
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5. Process Synchronization
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6. CPU Scheduling
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7. Deadlocks
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Part 3: Memory Management
8. Memory Management
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9. Virtual Memory
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Part 4: Storage Management
10. Mass-Storage Structure
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11. File-System Interface
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12. File-System Implementation
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13. I/O Systems
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Part 5: Protection and Security
14. Protection
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15. Security
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Part 6: Advanced Topics
16. Virtual Machines
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17. Distributed Systems
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Part 7: Case Studies
18. The Linux System
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19. Windows 7
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20.Historical Perspective
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