CS 416 Exams: what to expect
This page contains information about taking exams in this class.
Exam rules
This will be a closed book, closed notes exam. Calculators, laptops, netbooks, and tablets are neither needed nor permitted.
No other electronic devices, including phones and music players are permitted except for hearing aids, pacemakers, electronic nerve stimulators, other implanted medical devices, and electronic watches.
Bring a couple of pens or pencils with you. An extra pencil is affordable fault tolerance.
Answering questions
You will not get credit for a brain dump.
Keep your answers short but accurate (a few sentances or a short paragraph, as necessary). I will not have the patience to read long essays and you will lose points even if you have some of the right information. Conversely, make sure that your answers are precise and accurate. For example, do not give answers such as
"we use QFS because it's more efficient".
Instead qualify it as
"QFS is used in this case because it's more efficient in its use of network resources. Each transaction requires an exchange of two messages and data is cached locally, whereas TFS requires a multi-message authentication sequence for each transaction and no local caching is performed".
Do not turn an answer into an essay:
"QFS, developed at the University of Southern North Dakota, comprises two client processes, a name server, and a storage server....".
Old exams
Spring 2012
- Exam 1 [solutions (6 per page)]
- Exam 2 [solutions (6 per page)]
- Exam 3 [solutions (6 per page)]
Spring 2011
- Exam 1 [solutions (6 per page)]
- Exam 2 [solutions (6 per page)]
- Exam 3 [solutions (6 per page)]
