Cornell Systems Q Exam

Books

Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne. Operating System Concepts, 6th Edition Addison-Wesley Longman, 2001.

Tannenbaum. Modern Operating Systems, Second Edition. Prentice Hall, 2001.

Patterson and Hennessy. Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface. Morgan Kaufmann, 1994.

Raghu Ramakrishnan and Johannes Gehrke. Database Management Systems, Third Edition. McGrawHill 2002.

Topics

• Operating Systems
  • Concurrent Programming and Synchronization
  • Memory Management Techniques
  • Networking
  • Secondary and Tertiary Storage Management
  • Protection and Security
  • Distributed Systems
• Databases
  • Data models, query languages, and normalization
  • Storage and indexing
  • Query optimization and query processing
  • Transaction management
  • Object database systems
  • Parallel and distributed database systems
• Computer Architecture
  • Processor Architecture and ISA Design
  • Caches
  • Input/Output
  • Virtual Memory
  • Linking, Loading and Calling conventions

Study Materials

Please see the class notes for CS414/415, CS432/433, and CS314.