SAGE University, Indore

Institute Name: Institute of Computer Application

Recommended Programs : BCA Semester : I
Course Name Operating Systems Lab Course Code CAPDCOPS003P
L T P N Total
Credit Hours 1
0 0 2 0 Credits
Prerequisites Fundamental of computer (083)
The purpose of offering this course are:
1. The operating system is the most important program that runs on a
computer. Every general-purpose computer must have an operating
system to run other programs.
Course
2. Operating systems perform basic tasks, such as recognizing input from
Objectives
the keyboard, sending output to the display screen, keeping track of files
and directories on the disk, and controlling peripheral devices such as
disk drives and printers.
3. This course covers the concept of operating system and its applications
Course Content
List of Experiments:

1. Installing Linux Operating System

a. Boot, reboot, and shut down a system normally.
b. Boot systems into different run levels manually.
2. Login to OS and monitoring the performance
a. Use single-user mode to gain access to a system.
b. Identify CPU and memory-intensive processes, adjust process
priority with renice, and kill processes.
c. Locate and interpret system log files
3. Manage Users and Groups
a. Create, delete, and modify local user accounts.
b. Change passwords and adjust password aging for local user
accounts.
c. Create, delete, and modify local groups and group memberships.
4. Working with files
a. Archive, compress, unpack, and uncompress files using tar, star,
gzip, and bzip2.
b. Create and edit text files.
c. Create, delete, copy, and move files and directories.
d. Create hard and soft links.
e. List, set, and change standard ugo/rwx permissions.
f. Locate, read, and use system documentation including man, info,
and files in /usr/share/doc.
5. List, create, delete, and set partition types for primary, extended, and
logical partitions.

6. Create and remove physical volumes, assign physical volumes to

 volumes groups, and create and delete logical volumes
7. Create; mount; unmount; and use ext2, ext3, and ext4 file systems.
8. Create and manage access control lists (ACLs).
9. Diagnose and correct file permission problems.
10. Configure network and hostname resolution statically or
dynamically.

T1: Milan Milonkovic, Operating System Concepts and design, II Edition,

McGraw Hill 1992.
T2: Tanenbaum, Operation System Concepts, 2nd Edition, Pearson
Text Books
Education.
T3: Silberschatz / Galvin / Gagne, Operating System,6thEdition,WSE
(WILEY Publication)
R1:William Stallings, Operating System, 4th Edition, Pearson Education.
References R2:H.M.Deitel, Operating systems, 2nd Edition ,Pearson Education
R3:Nutt: Operating Systems, 3/e Pearson Education 2004.
CO1: After completion of the course the student will be able:
CO2: Describe the important computer system resources and the role of
operating system in their management policies and algorithms.
CO3: After learning the fundamental concepts in Operating system
including how OS has evolved over the years and different components
Course
Outcomes
of OS.
CO4: Students will continue to more significant functions of OS like
Process management, storage and memory management etc.
CO5: This will provide the necessary information for students to extract
maximum benefits out of the OS while developing programs, working
with applications and etc

Mapping of Course outcome with Program Outcomes, PSO’s, and Knowledge Levels (As per Blooms
Taxonomy)
Knowledge Levels (K1, K2,
CO/PO PO1 PO2 PO3 PO4 PO5 PO6 PO7 PO8 PO9 PO10 PO11 PO12 PSO1 PSO2 PSO3 PSO4 …, K6)
CO1 3 2 1 1 1 2 2 1 2 K2
CO2 3 2 3 1 1 1 2 2 1 2 K3
CO3 3 2 3 3 1 1 1 2 2 1 1 2 K3
CO4 3 2 3 2 1 1 1 2 2 2 1 2 K5
CO5 3 2 3 3 3 1 1 1 2 2 2 1 2 K6

High-3 Medium-2 Low-1

K1 => Remember K2 => Understand K3 => Apply K4 => Analyze K5 => Evaluate K6 => Create

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