Review of chapter 1-7:

Process: A process is a program in execution. It includes the current activity the process stack and a data section. A process may also includes a heap.

Process state: New, running, waiting, ready, terminated.

The concept of PCB(process control block) and CPU scheduling.

Process creation.

CPU scheduling: The objective of CPU scheduling is to have some process running at all times, to maximize CPU utilization.

Scheduling Criteria: CPU utilization,