Subject - CyberPlace Academy

Main Objectives

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Outlining an operating system from a programmer perspective - its functions, structures & utilities, throughout its operation control and troubleshooting.
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Providing an in-depth progammer's view of an operating system's booting process and file management, their algorithms and supported filesystems.
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Covering a detailed view of process management and interprocess communication, and leveraging it programmatically to maximize process efficiency and control.
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Outlining memory management and the integration between kernel and user space, to establish proficiency along the operating system's operability.

Course Syllabus

Module 1: Operating system's Main Themes

📁 Operating System's Main Functions
📁 Promoting Clever Use of Windows OS
📁 Using Virtual Machines
📁 The Registry - Windows' Data Structure
📁 Interpreting Binary Data
📁 Boot loading
📁 Extend your knowledge
📁 Glossary

Module 2: The Filesystem

📁 The File system structure and content
📁 FAT - File Allocation Table
📁 NTFS - New Technology Filesystem
📁 Windows File System Utilities
📁 Virtual Hard Disks
📁 Extend your knowledge
📁 Glossary

Module 3: Process Management

📁 Process Scheduling
📁 Scheduling Algorithms
📁 Introducing Threads
📁 Controlling Thread Execution
📁 Process and Thread Metrics
📁 Extend your knowledge
📁 Glossary

Module 4: Inter-Process Communication

📁 The Race Condition
📁 Mitigating the race condition
📁 Classical IPC challenges using semaphore
📁 Higher level Synchronization Mechanisms
📁 Message Communication
📁 Python Threads and Processes
📁 Extend your knowledge
📁 Glossary

Module 5: API Interoperability

📁 Windows APIs Overview
📁 winAPI Libraries
📁 System Calls
📁 The Portable Executable
📁 DLL Injection
📁 Extend your knowledge
📁 Glossary

Module 6: Memory Management

📁 Optimizing Program Execution Time
📁 Memory Management Fundamentals
📁 The virtual address space
📁 Catering for shortage of RAM space
📁 The use of the CPU Cache
📁 Extend your knowledge
📁 Glossary

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