Certificate in ICT mod 1

1.      INTRODUCTION TO OPERATING SYSTEM

• Meaning and importance of operating systems
• Historical development of operating systems
• Operating systems structure
• Types of operating systems
• Job control

2.      PROCESS MANAGEMENT

• Meaning and importance
• Inter-process communication
• Process scheduling
• Deadlocks
• Error diagnosis

3.      MEMORY MANAGEMENT

• Meaning and importance
• Memory allocation techniques
• Virtual memory

4.      DEVICE (1/0) MANAGEMEN

• Meaning and importance
• Principles of I/O hardware
• Principles of I/O software
• Disks
• Clocks
• Terminals
• Virtual device

5.      FILE MANAGEMENT

• Meaning and importance
• File systems
• File management techniques
• File protection and security