CST 206 OPERATING SYSTEMS

Study of operating system is an essential to understand the overall working of
computer system, tradeoffs between performance and functionality and the division of jobs
between hardware and software. This course introduces the concepts of memory management,
device management, process management, file management and security & protection
mechanisms available in an operating system. The course helps the learner to understand the
fundamentals about any operating system design so that they can extend the features of operating
system to detect and solve many problems occurring in operating system and to manage the
computer resources appropriately.