OS Prelim Reading List

This is a repo consisted of my paper-reading notes for Berkeley OS prelim exam

• Prelim reading list
• Basic OS materials (🙌 to Remzi and Andrea): OSTEP
• Practice exams
  • Wisconsin OS Quals
  • Berkeley past prelim questions
• Super useful references from people taken it before
  • Paras's repo
  • Peter's paper reading note

Basic Overview

Here are a list of resources to review undergrad materials for OS.

Summary on all these concepts are here, including OS concepts and abstractions, synchronization, CPU scheduling, memory management, I/O and system performance, storage system, and network and distributed systems.

Sorted By Topics

• Concurrency and CPU Scheduling
• Communication: Local and Remote
• Storage Systems
• Memory Management
• Distributed System Theory
• Protection and Security
• System Structure
• Application Structure and Programming Models
• Cluster Computing
• Bugs and Correctness
• Mobile, Ubiquitous, and Edge Computing
• Revealed Truth