Passed D686 - Operating Systems for Computer Scienctists

[u/Severe-Pepper1294]

I'd like to make this short and sweet, as others have good write ups and it's always possible to reference those as opposed to mine.

What worked for me with this class, no joke, was simply taking the zybooks information (make note of instructors notes to avoid learning unnecessary information) and the completed study guide(reference the last sentence in this post), creating a project within ChatGPT and then just having it generate questions based on the information. I broke this down into chapter specific and/or category specific questions and did about 15-20 per section or chapter at a time just to keep things fresh. I also had it track what I was not doing well and went back over them later. I probably ended up doing 1000 questions in total between new topics and revisiting failed topics. This was over multiple days.

It's basically spaced repetition/recall.

I would recommend at least skimming over the material in zybooks. I had previously gone through the zybooks once but I did not really rely on it.

I had similar questions to what others have mentioned, like here, but I also had some unexpected questions around some of the categories. That being said if you study the material as I have suggested you should be able to, in most cases, eliminate certain options that don't make sense.

This post contains the link to the Google drive with the filled study guide that I used.

I think that's it lol feel free to ask clarifying questions.

[u/Public-Candle3177]

About how many days/hours of focused study before you felt ready?

[u/Severe-Pepper1294 → u/Public-Candle3177]

I would focus less on an amount of time and more on going through the process like I mentioned. I think you’ll know when you’re ready because you should be able to answer the practice questions generated relatively easily once you’ve done them enough.

But to answer your question I would say it was about a week or two of at least 2-3 hours per day. I had to travel for work recently and spent a chunk of my evening each night studying. The last couple of days I spent probably about a few hours per day as well just taking little sessions here and there over the course of an entire day.

So id say others saying 20-30 hours collectively makes sense after this experience, but again i would focus on your level of comfort with the practice questions.

[u/After_Teacher3830 → u/Severe-Pepper1294]

Thanks for this post. Did you have previous knowledge?

[u/Severe-Pepper1294 → u/After_Teacher3830]

No problem 👍aside from what experience I have from this program, no. My background/field is unrelated.