Education and Career Forum

Operating Systems and System Software paper under the new scheme of IETE AMIETE CS/IT has a broadly developed classification of the syllabus declarations. It is an integrated matter of all the concepts and courses included in the main subject and hence the test is also an exhaustive examination of the students. The topics noteworthy in this context are a general introduction on the importance of Operating Systems (OS), file systems, file management, processes and processing fundamentals, resource sharing, IO management, memory organization, Unix Primer, inter-process communication, shell scripts and system administration in the UNIX. A detailed overview of the topics would reveal further information on system software parts such as compiler, assembler, linker, loader; ground rules of operating system such as multi-programming, multi-processing, buffering, spooling; thread management such as context switching, multi-threading; concurrency control such as finding solutions of classical IPC problems; memory management such as swapping, partitioning, paging and protection of files.