Operating Systems: Processes to Kernels

Name: Operating Systems: Processes to Kernels
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A rigorous university-level operating systems course modelled after MIT 6.S081, Berkeley CS162, and CMU 15-213. Covers process management, scheduling, synchronisation, virtual memory, file systems, and OS security. Includes hands-on labs in C.

11 hours

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Updated May 2026

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What You'll Learn

Explain kernel vs user space, system calls, and major OS architectures

Manage processes and threads with fork, exec, and POSIX thread primitives

Implement and analyse CPU scheduling algorithms including Linux CFS

Identify and prevent race conditions using mutexes, semaphores, and monitors

Describe virtual memory, paging, and demand paging

Explain inode-based file systems, journaling, and VFS

Describe OS security mechanisms: capabilities, namespaces, and containers

Prerequisites

C programming -- pointers, malloc, structs (required)
Computer architecture basics -- memory, registers, assembly (helpful)
Data structures and algorithms (helpful)

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CloudaQube Instructor

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LevelAdvanced

Duration11 hours

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