COMP 3000 Test 1 Study Guide 2011

For this test, you should understand the following terms and how they interrelate at a high level:

• processes: fork, zombie processes
• the UNIX shell (e.g., csh or bash)
• basic UNIX file permissions
• UNIX standard input & output, I/O redirection
• kernel & supervisor mode
• hypervisor and hypervisor mode
• paravirtualization and hardware virtualization
• /proc and basic output of ps
• UNIX Environment variables
• UNIX dynamic libraries versus system calls
• static versus dynamic linking
• output of ldd versus /proc/<PID>/maps
• VM guest additions
• virtualization versus emulation

Below are a set of sample questions.