UNIX and Linux Operating System [FT 403I] MBA (ISM)- IV Sem. Syllabus for DAVV Indore Affiliated Institutions

DEVI AHILYA VISHWAVIDYALAYA, INDORE

MBA (Full-Time) Information Systems Management
 Fourh-4th-IV Semester Curriculum/ Syllabus

UNIX and Linux Operating System Syllabus

Information Systems Management - UNIX and Linux Operating System [FT 403I]

Course Contents : 

1.Introduction to Operating Systems and UNIX: Concepts History, and Functions. The  UNIX   Operating System: Back ground, Philosophy, General Overview of the system,  Introduction to Kernal concepts Help Facility.

2.The File Systems, Utilities and Filters: File Systems : Structure of file system, Internal  representation of files, system calls for the file system, pwd, cd Is, cat, mkdir, rmdir,  chmod, cp rm, mv commands. Utilities: more, file wc, od, cmp, comm.., diff, lp, banner,  cal, date who tty, sty commands. Simple Filter: Pr head, tail, cut, paste, sort, unip, nl  commands, advanced filters: grep, egrap, sed tr, join, awk, filtering

3.Shell and Shell Programming:Tthe Bourne shell : Sh, proceeding a command by its  path, combining commands, pattern matching, echo, pipes, tees, shell variables, shell  scripts. Programming with the Shell : System variables, The profile conditional execution,  script termination, if, case, while-until, for, et shifts statements.

4.The Process: The structure of process, process control, process scheduling and time,  Shell   process, parent and children process, process status, system process, multiple job  in   background, wait command, premature termination of a process, job execution with low   priority, multiple jobs in foreground-shell layers, timing processes.

5.Communicating and Scheduling : Bulletin Board, Message of the day, Two way communication, Insulation from the other users, using Mailbox, Address all users, Delay,  Execute in shell script later, running jobs periodically. 

6.System Administration: Super user, security, user services, floppy disk   management,  operation, file system administration, backups.

7.Introduction to Linux Operating System: Basic Commands & Utilities.

Text Readings:

• Ambawade & Shah Linux Lab:Hands on Linux,2011,Dreamtech Press
• Sumitabha Das, Unix Concepts and application, New Delhi, Tata McGraw Hill  
• Mike Mcgrath Linux in easy steps,2010 Dreamtech Press  
• Forouzan, Unix and Shell programming.1^st 2009 Cengage Learning  
• Das, UNIX: Concepts and Applications, Tata McGraw Hill.2010 
•  Rosen UNIX: The Complete Reference, Tata McGraw Hill,2010. 
• Diaz, Introduction to Unix/ Linux  With DVD 1^st 2009Cengage Learning 
• Bach,  Design of the UNIX Operating System,PHI Learning  
• Stevanse,Unix Programming ,PHI Learning

Reference Books

• Peter Norton, Guide to Unix, New Delhi BPB Publication
• Promod Koparkar, Unix for you, New Delhi, Tata McGraw Hill. 

Course Objective

The  objective  of  this course  is to  help  students  to  understand  the  concepts of  Multi-user,  Multitasking  Operating  System  Unix and  related  issues and  their  use  in  organization  and  processing complex business information. 

Examination Scheme:

Students shall be evaluated on two components , internal and end semester examination.  Internal component shall be of 20 marks based on continuous evaluation .The Semester  Examination will be worth 80 marks, the question paper will comprise of eight questions out of  which a student will be required to attempt any five questions.