Mid-term Exam Guide
WARNING: You may not collaborate with other students during the exam. Cheating will not be tolerated. See CMU's Policy on Academic Integrity for additional information.
- Time:
- Wednesday October 11 @ 2:00pm-3:20pm
- Location:
- Tepper 1403
Please contact the instructor as soon as possible if you need special accommodations. All accommodations must be made through the Office of Disability Resources.
What To Bring
- MANDATORY: Your CMU ID
- A calculator is recommended (e.g., logarithms)
- A single letter-size page of handwritten notes. You may use both sides. Notes written on a tablet than printed are allowed.
No additional aids are allowed (i.e., no books, no slides, no laptops; no cell/wifi connections).
Material to be Examined
From the textbook Database System Concepts (7th Edition):
- Chapters 1-2, 27
- Chapters 3-5
- Chapters 12.1-12.4, 11.2, 13.2-13.6, 24.2
- Chapters 14.1-14.5, 24.5
- Chapters 18.10
- Chapters 15.4-15.6
All of the corresponding slides for Lectures #1 to #11 (inclusive).
Practice Exam
You must be on campus or use the CMU VPN to download the practice exam.
The exam questions will be similar to the exercises in the textbook and to the homework exercises. See the solutions to the practice exercises of the textbook.
If you are unable to download the files via CMU VPN, you can log into an Andrew machine and execute one of the following commands to download them:
## To download via curl
$ curl 'https://15445.courses.cs.cmu.edu/fall2023/files/CMU_ONLY/mt-practice-F23-{clean,sols}.pdf' \
--remote-name-all -O
## To download via wget
$ wget https://15445.courses.cs.cmu.edu/fall2023/files/CMU_ONLY/mt-practice-F23-clean.pdf
$ wget https://15445.courses.cs.cmu.edu/fall2023/files/CMU_ONLY/mt-practice-F23-sols.pdf