CMSC 432 - Operating Systems

3 Credit(s)

A survey of operating systems concepts including processes/threads, synchronization, scheduling, cache, memory, file systems, protection, security, processors, interrupts, virtual machines, and networks.

Prerequisite(s): CMSC 182.

Course Frequency: ALT F (odd years)

Grading Method: Student option.

Learning Outcomes:

Understand the abstractions operating systems expose that allow software to control hardware.
Implement components which facilitate core operating systems features.
Utilize multithreaded programming constructs to write efficient and safe code.