concurrency and synchronization, CPU scheduling, deadlock, file systems, memory management, secondary storage management, virtual memory, protection and security, Unix, classical operating systems.

References:

• Silberschatz, A. and Peterson, J. and Galvin, P., Operating System Concepts, Addison-Wesley, 4th Edition, Chapters 1-14, 19.
• Tanenbaum, A., Modern Operating Systems, Prentice-Hall, 1992, Chapters 1-7.