COMP9242 Advanced Operating Systems (UNSW Sydney): rated 3.6/5 overall across 20 reviews collected on UNSW Wall.
COMP9242 is a UNSW Sydney course taught by the Faculty of Engineering in School of Computer Science and Engineering. This page brings together its handbook details and what UNSW students say about it.
Review data updated 2026-10-24.
Chinese title: 高级操作系统
Type: Undergraduate course
Credit points: 6
Subject area: School of Computer Science and Engineering
Faculty: Faculty of Engineering
Level: Postgraduate Level 9
Handbook year: 2026
The course provides students with a deep understanding of modern operating system technology, implementation techniques and research issues. This course builds upon the basic operating systems course (COMP3231/9201/3891/9283), which provides an understanding of the underlying operating systems which students have implicitly relied upon in developing applications in foundational courses within Computer Science and Engineering, and will rely on in their future careers when d…
COMP9242 has 20 scored reviews: overall 3.6/5 (all out of 5; higher difficulty means harder).
Sources: 20 Reddit comments that an AI model judged to be reviewing this course (average would-recommend 3.6/5).
On Reddit: "Bad. Don't do it. Just do the regular CS stream and pick whatever electives you like. Some popular and good courses are: - COMP3231 OS - COMP2041 Bash and Shell - COMP6068 Frontend - COMP9417 Machine Learning (only good AI course in the uni) Some good but hard courses are: - COM…"
On Reddit: "**Course: COMP6771 (Advanced C++)** Lecturer: Hayden Smith Rating: 4/5 Difficulty: 3/5 Mark: DN Comments: Not much to add here, other than the fact that the assignment work is very tedious and mind-numbing. Apart from the first assignment, they felt like writing code without req…"
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Q: Is COMP9242 worth taking?
A: Averaged over 20 reviews: overall 3.6/5.
Q: Which faculty teaches COMP9242, and when is it offered?
A: COMP9242 is taught by the Faculty of Engineering. Check the official handbook for the current year.
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