Create a journal assignment in preparation for the memory management assessment elements of your final project.

Identify a graphical or command line utility that displays the allocation of virtual memory on your workstation. For example, memory_pressure provides information about the state of memory pages on OS X. The command or utility you choose must be part of the standard operating system's distribution. Do not use third-party utilities. You are encouraged to select an operating system different from the one you used in previous lab exercises.

Execute the command and report on your findings in a journal assignment that provides insight into how the command you selected displays physical and virtual memory.

 

project overview

IT professionals are often called upon to make decisions, provide recommendations, and perform analyses that require an in-depth understanding of the inner workings of an operating system. This summative assessment will provide students with the knowledge and skills required to achieve and maintain this level of understanding throughout their careers. For the summative assessment, students will perform a technical evaluation of an operating system. Students will be offered a choice of operating systems to analyze. Students will use real-time and log-based tools, empirical observation, and scholarly research to analyze the core subsystems of the operating system. For each subsystem, students will research and describe the technology used in that subsystem and compare it to other available technologies. For the final report, students will assess the results of their analyses and perform an overall evaluation of the operating system, with recommendations for how it might be improved.

For the summative assessment you will perform an in-depth technical evaluation of an operating system. The evaluation will be made in terms of the ability of the system and its supporting hardware to meet a set of organizational needs and technical requirements. The organization is a global enterprise that provides premium technical support to other enterprise businesses