DM510 Operating Systems

The information on this page may be subject to changes during the run of the semester.

Lectures

Week	Date	Topic	Material
6	04-02-2026	Introduction, Overview	Slides, Textbook Chapter 1
7	09-02-2026	Operating System Structures	Slides, Textbook Chapter 2
8	16-02-2026	Processes	Slides, Textbook Chapter 3
8	18-02-2026	Threads and Concurrency	Slides, Textbook Chapter 4
9	23-02-2026	CPU Scheduling	Slides, Textbook Chapter 5
10	02-03-2026	Synchronization	Slides, Textbook Chapter 6+7
10	04-03-2026	Deadlocks	Slides, Textbook Chapter 8
11	09-03-2026	I/O Systems and Networks	Slides, Textbook Chapter 12 + 19
12	16-03-2026	Main Memory I	Slides, Textbook Chapter 9 + 10
13	23-03-2026	Main Memory II	Slides, Textbook Chapter 9 + 10
15	07-04-2026	Mass-Storage Structure	Slides, Textbook Chapter 11
15	08-04-2026	File Systems I	Slides, Textbook Chapters 13+15
16	13-04-2026	File Systems II	Slides, Textbook Chapter 14
17	20-04-2026	Security and Protection	Slides, Textbook Chapters 16-17
18	27-04-2026	Virtual Machines	Slides, Textbook Chapter 18

Tutorials

Please see your individual calendar for the exact date.

Week	Topic	Exercises
7	Chapters 1+2	Exercise sheet
8	Chapter 3	Exercise sheet
9	Chapter 4+5	Exercise sheet
10	Chapter 6+7	Exercise sheet
11	Chapter 8+12	Exercise sheet
13	Chapter 9+10	Exercise sheet
15	Chapter 11	Exercise sheet
16	Chapters 13-15	Exercise sheet
17	Chapters 16-17	Exercise sheet
18	Chapters 18	Exercise sheet

Programming Projects

Deadlines of the projects may be subject to change before their release.

Release	Deadline	Topic	Resit Deadline
16-02-2026	9-03-2026	System Call	TBA
09-03-2026	13-04-2026	Kernel Module	TBA
13-04-2025	11-05-2025	File System	TBA

Exam, grading, and repeat students

There is a written exam at the end of the course (June 4th for first try and August 12th for second try). The exam counts as 80% of the final grade with the remaining 20% coming from the the programming projects. Both parts have to be passed.

The topics of the exam are the following:

The book chapters mentioned in the lecture list restricted to content discussed in lectures and exercise sessions (see slides and exercise sheets).
C and Linux topics as seen in exercise sessions and projects
Exam exercises comparable to those on exercise sheets

The exam is with limited aids. Only the following aids are allowed:

Built-in standard calculators in Windows/macOS/Linux.
Maple, Mathematica, Mathcad, MATLAB, GeoGebra Apps, R (including R-Studio), CAS TI-Nspire, MS Excel, and LibreOffice Calc are allowed. WordMat is permitted but not recommended. Use of WordMat is at your own risk, and no support will be provided for breakdowns or other errors caused by the program.
Internet is not allowed. However, you may access the course page in itslearning to open system “DE–Digital Exam” and complete any tests within the system. In particular, no textbook is allowed.

Repeat students who have participated in the course and successfully passed the projects may transfer those partial grades without doing the projects again. Please confirm this by emailing the teacher.