Degree of Bachelor of Information Technology External bitict'cmb'ac'lk

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PREPARING FOR THE BIT
Degree of Bachelor of Information Technology
(External)bit_at_ict.cmb.ac.lk

Preparing for BIT 19/04/2001
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Todays Agenda

• Modules for Semester 2
• Outline of main learning objectives
• Use of material provided
• Announcements

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Year 1 Semester 2 Modules

• Computer Architecture Operating Systems
• Data Structures Algorithms
• Database Management Systems
• Fundamentals of Software Engineering

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PART 1
IT2101 COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE AND OPERATING
SYSTEMS
E-mail caos_at_ict.cmb.ac.lk
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Computer Architecture and Operating Systems
(IT2101)

• LEARNING OBJECTIVES

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Rationale

• Module extends the basic understanding obtained
  in Semester 1 module on Fundamentals of Computer
  Systems
• At the end of this module, a student must be able
  to have achieve the following core competencies

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Competencies

• To acquire an appreciation of how the
  Architecture of a Computer affects
• application program behaviour
• operating systems design
• To gain an understanding of theoretical
  principles for system level application
  development
• e.g. Java threads

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Competencies

• Understand the principles of system and network
  administration
• e.g. posix compliance of o/s, virtual machine

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Outline of Syllabus

• Review of basic principles 7
• General system architecture 4
• Instruction set architecture 5
• Basic CPU architecture 4
• Memory hierarchy I/O techniques 6
• Parallelism 4
• Introduction to O/S 4
• Processes and process management 8
• Memory management 6
• File Systems 6
• Unix and NT 6

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Main Reading

• Computer architecture and organisation, Morris
  Mano, Prentice-Hall.
• Modern operating systems, A. Tanenbaum,
  Prentice-Hall, 1992.

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Supplementary Reading

• Structured computer organisation, A. Tanenbaum,
  Prentice-Hall, 1999.
• Computer organisation and design the hardware
  and software interface, Hennessey and Patterson,
  Morgan-Kaufmann.
• Operating system concepts, Silberchatz et. al.
  (5th edition), Addison-Wesley, 1998.