Note: Relevant reading in Silberschatz-Galvin appear in parenthesis after each major topic.

• Introduction (ch 1, ch 2)
• Concurrency (ch 4, ch 6 [excluding 6.9], ch 7)
  • threads and processes
  • CPU scheduling
  • critical section problem
  • semaphores
  • critical regions and monitors
  • deadlock/livelock
• Memory Management (ch 8, ch 9)
  • swapping and fragmentation
  • virtual memory (segmentation and paging)
• File Systems (ch 10, ch 11, ch 12, ch 13, ch 17)
  • functional requirements
  • space allocation
  • disks and raid
• Protection (ch 19, ch 20)
  • security policies
  • access control (lists and capabilities)
  • authentication
  • encryption (private key, public key, signatures, secret sharing)
• Overview of Distributed Systems (ch 16)
• System Structuring (ch 3, 6.9)
  • level-structures vs kernels vs micro-kernels vs virtual machines