IIT PKD 2018

Aug-Nov 2018, B.Tech Semester 5, Operating Systems Laboratory, IIT Palakkad
Number of respondents: 19
Duration of the course: One semester (13 weeks)
Type of course: Core.

A feedback questionnaire was circulated to all the students who credited the course one week before the end of the semester. The responses are summarized below

Major phases of the Project (Each stage subsumes the previous stages):

  • Phase 1: Stage 12-14: Scheduling and kernel stack management
  • Phase 2: Stage 16-19: Device Handling, interrupts and Exceptions
  • Phase 3: Stage 20: Process Management
  • Phase 4: Stage 21-22: Interprocess Communication - Semaphore and Signal-Wait
  • Phase 5: Stage 23-25: File System Implementation
  • Phase 6: Stage 26: User Management and access permissions
  • Phase 7: Stage 27: Memory Management - Disk swap management

Q1. Student Performance: How many phases of the project did you complete?

Note: Every student who completed Phase 6 also completed Phase 7.

Q2. Time Management: How many hours of work did you put into the project per week on an average to complete up to what you have done?

Q3. Effectiveness of road map: What percentage of work could be done without having to refer to material outside the roadmap/documentation of project ?

Q4. Contribution to understanding of theory: How much did the lab help to improve your understanding of Operating Systems theory?

Q5. Contribution to Coding/Software development skills: How far did this lab contribute to the improvement of your coding / software development skills?

Q6. Student background: Was your background sufficient for doing the lab ? If not did you feel that your knowledge in any of the following subjects was inadequate for you?

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