Advanced Operating Systems Survey

Questions on the Textbook

• How would you rate your overall opinion of the textbook?

  No Opinion bad poor average fair good

• Did you find the material in the textbook to be

  No Opinion hard easy just right

• Did you refer to other books for this course?

  No Answer frequently occassionally never

• If you would like to reommend another textbook, please type the name, ISBN, etc below

Questions on the INTERNET

• The use of the INTERNET increased the value of this course.
  disagree strongly disagree neutral agree agree strongly
  
• I enjoyed using the net to submit my work.
  disagree strongly disagree neutral agree agree strongly
  
• The ability to see other student's work increased the value of this course.
  disagree strongly disagree neutral agree agree strongly
  
• I did not mind having other students see my work
  disagree strongly disagree neutral agree agree strongly
  
• How often did you use the INTERNET to access course material
  No Answer frequently (every week) occassionally never
  
• Which WEB browsers did you use for this course:
  netscape Internet Explorer
  Other, Specify

Questions on Workload and Evaluation

• The workload for this course was
  No Answer easy too hard just right
  
• I prefer take home tests
  disagree strongly disagree neutral agree agree strongly
  
• I thought the grading was
  No Answer fair unfair I don't care about grades that much
  
• I enjoyed hearing the other students present their projects in class.
  disagree strongly disagree neutral agree agree strongly
  
• This course should have a programming project like CS471.
  disagree strongly disagree neutral agree agree strongly

Questions on Course Content

Have you taken or are you now taking the Distributed Systems Course?

No Answer Yes No

Please indicate the value of each of the following topics:

• ISO 7 layer model
  no opinion relevant and useful skip (already knew this) skip (unimportant)
  
• ATM
  no opinion relevant and useful skip (already knew this) skip (unimportant)
  
• Client/Server
  no opinion relevant and useful skip (already knew this) skip (unimportant)
  
• RPC
  no opinion relevant and useful skip (already knew this) skip (unimportant)
  
• Clock Synchronization
  no opinion relevant and useful skip (already knew this) skip (unimportant)
  
• Mutual Exclusion
  no opinion relevant and useful skip (already knew this) skip (unimportant)
  
• Atomic Actions
  no opinion relevant and useful skip (already knew this) skip (unimportant)
  
• Deadlocks
  no opinion relevant and useful skip (already knew this) skip (unimportant)
  
• Threads
  no opinion relevant and useful skip (already knew this) skip (unimportant)
  
• Processor allocation strategies
  no opinion relevant and useful skip (already knew this) skip (unimportant)
  
• Fault Tolerant Systems
  no opinion relevant and useful skip (already knew this) skip (unimportant)
  
• Security, Authentification and Resource Protection
  no opinion relevant and useful skip (already knew this) skip (unimportant)
  
• File Systems
  no opinion relevant and useful skip (already knew this) skip (unimportant)
  
• Distributed Memory
  no opinion relevant and useful skip (already knew this) skip (unimportant)
  
• Case Studies
  no opinion relevant and useful skip (already knew this) skip (unimportant)

General Comments

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