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Windows Internals, Part 1: System architecture, processes, threads, memory management, and more

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The definitive guide–fully updated for Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016   Delve inside Windows architecture and internals, and see how core components work behind the scenes. Led by a team of internals experts, this classic guide has been fully updated for Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016. Whether you are a developer or an IT professional, you’ll get critical, insider perspectives on how Windows operates. And through hands-on experiments, you’ll experience its internal behavior firsthand–knowledge you can apply to improve application design, debugging, system performance, and support.     This book will help you: ·        Understand the Window system architecture and its most important entities, such as processes and threads ·        Examine how processes manage resources and threads scheduled for execution inside processes ·        Observe how Windows manages virtual and physical memory ·        Dig into the Windows I/O system and see how device drivers work and integrate with the rest of the system ·        Go inside the Windows security model to see how it manages access, auditing, and authorization, and learn about the new mechanisms in Windows 10 and Server 2016

Table of Contents:
Chapter 1: Concepts and tools        Windows operating system versions                              Foundation concepts and terms    Digging into Windows internals      Conclusion                             Chapter 2:  System architecture      Requirements and design goals      Operating system model                         Architecture overview                                 Virtualization-based security architecture overview                   Key system components                           Conclusion                             Chapter 3: Processes and jobs         Creating a process        Process internals          Protected processes  Minimal and Pico processes                Trustlets (secure processes)              Flow of CreateProcess                                   Terminating a process                               Image loader                        Jobs                                                Conclusion                             Chapter 4: Threads           Creating threads           Thread internals          Examining thread activity                     Thread scheduling     Group-based scheduling                         Worker factories (thread pools)        Conclusion                            Chapter 5: Memory management   Introduction to the memory manager                         Services provided by the memory manager           Kernel-mode heaps (system memory pools)          Heap manager                    Virtual address space layouts           Address translation  Page fault handling     Stacks     Virtual address descriptors               NUMA   Section objects                Working sets                       Page frame number database             Physical memory limits                            Memory compression                                 Memory partitions    Memory combining   Memory enclaves          Proactive memory management (SuperFetch) Conclusion                             Chapter 6: I/O system      I/O system components                            Interrupt Request Levels and Deferred Procedure Calls         Device drivers                   I/O processing                   Driver Verifier                 The Plug and Play manager                   General driver loading and installation                     The Windows Driver Foundation  The power manager    Conclusion                             Chapter 7: Security           Security ratings             Security system components            Virtualization-based security          Protecting objects       The AuthZ API                 Account rights and privileges            Access tokens of processes and threads                      Security auditing         AppContainers                Logon       User Account Control and virtualization                 Exploit mitigations    Application Identification                     AppLocker                             Software Restriction Policies             Kernel Patch Protection                           PatchGuard                        HyperGuard                        Conclusion                             


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780133986440
  • Publisher: Pearson Education (US)
  • Publisher Imprint: Addison Wesley
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: System architecture, processes, threads, memory management, and more
  • ISBN-10: 0133986446
  • Publisher Date: 05 May 2017
  • Binding: Digital download
  • No of Pages: 800
  • Weight: 1 gr


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