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Operating Systems 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Multitasking and threading 1.3 Example operating system components 1.4 Exercises 1.5 Example operating systems   Processes and Scheduling 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Scheduling 2.3 Higher-level primitives 2.4 Signals, pipes and task switching 2.5 Messages 2.6 Microsoft Windows scheduling 2.7 UNIX process control 2.8 Finite-state machines 2.9 Exercises   Distributed Processing 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Interprocess communication 3.3 Flags and semaphores 3.4 RPC 3.5 Multi-processor systems 3.6 Exercises Distributed File Systems 4.1 Distributed File Systems 4.2 Active Directories 4.3 Exercises 4.4 Sample exam question

Routing Protocols 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Routing fundamentals 5.3 Routing protocol techniques 5.4 RIP 5.5 OSPF 5.6 IGRP 5.7 EGP/BGP 5.8 BGP specification 5.9 Exercises 5.10 Sample exam question Routers 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Router configuration and startup 6.3 Router commands 6.4 Access Control Lists (ACLs) 6.5 Cisco discovery protocol 6.6 Exercises 6.7 Cisco router commands Networking Operating Systems 7.1 Introduction 7.2 Microsoft Windows 7.3 UNIX 7.4 Novell NetWare 7.5 NDS 7.6 Exercises 7.7 XDR format Encryption 8.1 Introduction 8.2 Encryption and the OSI model 8.3 Cryptography 8.4 Government pressure 8.5 Cracking the code 8.6 Letter probabilities 8.7 Basic encryption principles 8.8 Message hash 8.9 Private-key 8.10 Public-key 8.11 Authentication 8.12 Internet Security 8.13 Exercises 8.14 Letter probability program 8.15 Occurrences of English letters

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