ITKA203 Operating Systems: Desired Learning Outcomes

This document lists the learning outcomes of the course ITKA203 Operating Systems. It is originally based on the ACM computing curriculum recommendations: http://wiki.acm.org/cs2001/index.php?title=Operating_systems and http://www.acm.org/education/CS2013-final-report.pdf (esp. page 138; no critical changes since the 2001 recommendations). The objectives have been selected and modified according to the local curriculum and traditions, and then re-translated into English.

After completing the course, the student should be able to...

...with regard to operating system structure and principles:

... with regard to concurrency:

... with regard to memory management:

... with regard to device management, I/O, and file systems:

... with regard to applications (shell):

... with regard to applications (C language, binary files, OS system calls):

... with regard to scientific and professional skills:

We intentionally disregard the following recommended topics, since they are covered on other courses of our faculty: