INFO1216, Operating Systems Fundamentals for Programmers
Final Exam Review
Winter 2024
Format of the Exam:
FOL Quiz, Requires RespondusLockdown Browser 
Part A – FOL Quiz, Auto Graded (40 Marks)
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15 Marks
15 Marks
05 Marks
05 Marks
Multiple Choice
True/False
Matching Type
Matching Type
(5 questions from each content group, see below)
(5 questions from each content group, see below)
Hardware
Internet and Web
Content Review:
There will be 5 questions from each of the content groups for each of the Multiple Choice and True False questions.
Group 1
 Week 3, Hardware
 Week 4, Software and OS
Introduction
 Week 5, OS Structure
Group 2
 Week 7, Software
Development and Runtime
Environments
 Week 9, Memory
Management
 Week 10, File system
 Week 11, Input/Output
Group 3
 Week 12, Internet and the Web
 Week 13, Privacy
 Week 14, Security
Part B – FOL Quiz, Auto Graded (43 Marks)
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13 Marks
Matching, Multiple Choice
o Lab 1 – Matching Type (3 pts)
o Lab 2 – Multiple Choice (2 pts)
o Lab 3 – Matching Type (5 pts)
o Lab 4 – Multiple Choice ( 3pts)
15 Marks
Multiple Choice
15 Marks
Multiple Choice and T/F
(based on labs)
(based on lecture)
(based on provided text material from zyBooks chapters)
1. Using the weekly lecture slides and zyBooks chapter readings, locate definitions or descriptions for each of
the following terms or concepts. Complete the chart below.
Term or Concept
Week 3 – Hardware slides
zyBooks Chapter 2 – Hardware
 Parts of the Central Processing Unit
o Registers, CU, ALU, MMU, Cache,
Processor Clock
 Fetch/Decode/Execute cycle
 CPU speed
 CPU cores
 Motherboard
 Memory (main or primary memory)
 Storage
 Hard Disk Drive
 Moore’s Law
 What is a bit, a byte
 Sizes of memory using metric prefixes
and IEC prefixes
 Examples of binary, decimal, and
hexadecimal numbers
Week 4 – Software and OS Introduction slides
zyBooks Chapter 3 – Software and OS Introduction
 Software
 Code
 Firmware
 Open-source software
 Application software
 The Killer App, some examples
 List programming tools and languages
 Examples of the biggest killer app’s
 Operating system basics
o Interface between hardware and
applications
o Manages files and folders
o Multitasking
 Kernel
 Types of operating systems
Week 5 – Operating System Structure slides
zyBooks Chapter 4 – Operating System Structure
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The role of the OS and the kernel
System software vs application software
interrupt
multiprogramming
Time sharing or multitasking
User mode vs kernel
Privileged instructions
List 8 OS services
User interface to the OS
Definition or Description
 List 6 categories of system calls
 What is a process
 Layout of a process in memory
Week 7 – Software Development and Runtime Environment slides
 How does the CPU code
 What is Opcode
 Machine code
 Assembly code
 Low-level code
 High-level code
 How does code become machine code
 Assemblers
 Object code and linkers
 Compilers
 Interpreters
 Static libraries
 Runtime libraries
 P-code and Bytecode
 Source code
 Preprocessor
 What is a runtime environment
 API and examples
 Services provided by RTE
Week 8 – Memory Management slides
zyBooks Chapter 5 – Memory Management
 What is memory management in coding
 Address space, logical memory, virtual
memory
 Layout of a process in memory
 Physical memory vs logical memory
 Address translation
 Static relocation, segmentation, freespace management
 External fragmentation
 Paging
o Frames and pages
o Page number and offset stored in a
page table
o Page faults and swapping between
the swap file
Week 9 – File Systems slides
zyBooks Chapter 6 – File System
 Hard disk drive vs solid state drive
 Parts of a HD, disk block allocation
 Space management units, including
track, sector, cluster
 Swap space management and its use
with paging
 What is a filesystem
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3-part architecture of a FS (logical,
physical, virtual)
 Files and directories
 File names, metadata, file extensions
 File operations:
o Create, destroy, open, read, write,
seek, close
 Directories, path, structures
 The logical file system and file control
block
 Disk block allocation:
o Disk block, contiguous allocation,
linked block allocation, clustered
allocation, file allocation table (FAT),
indexed block allocation
 Internal fragmentation
 External fragmentation
Week 10 – Input/Output slides
zyBooks Chapter 7 – Input/Output
 Examples of input devices, output
devices, and devices that combine both
IO
 How IO devices are connected (ports,
buses, controllers)
 Device controller
 Device drivers, what are they, why are
they provided
 Describe the IO hierarchy:
o application -> API -> IO system ->
device driver -> device controller ->
device
 IO programming approaches: polling,
interrupts
 Data buffering and caching
Week 11 – The Web slides
zyBooks Chapter 8 – The Internet and the Web
 Define the internet
 How does the internet work
 Protocols IP and TCP and IP address
(IPv4 and IPv6)
 What is the world wide web and how
does it work
 Internet Service Provider (ISP)
 Different tiers of Internet access,
including Tier 1, Tier 2, Tier 3
 Define domain name and DNS server
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Uniform Resource Locator (URL)
Describe the three technologies of the
web: HTML, browser, HTTP protocol
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Hypertext Markup Language (HTML),
along with CSS and JavaScript to create
dynamic web pages
 Web browsers
 Search Engines, web crawler
 HTTP cookies (session cookie, persistent
cookie, secure cookie)
 Bubble filtering
Week 12 – Privacy slides
zyBooks Chapter 9 – Privacy
 Privacy vs. security
 Digital footprints, data mining, metadata
 Search engines, web crawlers, how
Google search works, how search
engines are getting better
 Steps to protect user information
Week 13 – Security slides
zyBooks Chapter 10 – Security
 Examples of security breaches
 Security threats
o Malware (virus, worm, trojan,
spyware)
o Denial of service attacks
o Buffer overflow
 Sources of malware
o Phishing, internet scams, spam
 Security measures
o Firewall, antivirus software, anti
malware
 Passwords, password manager, multifactor authentication
 File backup, file history vs. system
backup
 Cryptography as a security tool
 Three styles of encryption
 Symmetric-key vs public-key
cryptography
 Digital certificate
2. Review the basic Linux commands.