CS 481: Material for Test #1

Coverage in brief: everything covered since the previous test.

In more detail (all from the text):

  • Sections 10.4 through 10.15
  • Sections 11.1, 11.2, 11.7, 11.8, and 11.9
  • Sections 12.1 through 12.7, 12.10 through 12.15
  • What to expect on the test: short questions about specific concepts (e.g., what is fragmentation, a page, a frame, a segment, caching, etc.); slightly longer questions asking you to choose one design or policy over another (e.g., page replacement policies, memory management algorithms, etc.); questions asking you to compute something (e.g., size of a page in a system, overhead of a page fault, slowdown due to a specific hit ratio); and more conceptual questions (e.g., how do memory management and process management compare?).

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