Final Exam Guide
Information
- Time:
- Friday December 13, 2024 @ 08:30am-11:30am
- Location:
- Baker Hall A51
Important: Everyone should report to Baker Hall A51 a few minutes before the start of the exam. Students will then be randomly assigned to one of two rooms that the university has allocated to the course (A51, A53).
Please contact the instructor as soon as possible if you need special accommodations. All accommodations must be made through the Office of Disability Resources.
Each student should bring the follow items:
- MANDATORY: Your CMU ID
- Pencil and eraser.
- A single letter-size page of handwritten notes. You may use both sides. Notes written on a tablet than printed are allowed. You may not shrink down the lecture slides to fit on the page.
- A calculator is recommended (e.g., logarithms)
No additional aids are allowed (i.e., no books, no slides, no laptops; AR eyewear; no cell/wifi connections).
Due to problems in previous years, we will not allow the following into the exam room:
- Wet Laundry
- Votive Candles
- Therapy Snakes
Material to be Examined
From the textbook Database System Concepts (7th Edition):- Chapter 15
- Chapter 16
- Chapter 18
- Chapter 19
- Chapters 20.4-20.7, 21, 22.9, 23.1-23.4
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.
Feedback
We ask that you please fill out the course evaluations for both the instructors and TAs.- Instructors:
- https://cmu.smartevals.com
- Teaching Assistants:
- https://www.ugrad.cs.cmu.edu/ta/F24/feedback/
Office Hours
Andy's Office Hours:- Wednesday Dec 11th @ 3:30-4:30pm, GHC 9019
- Thursday Dec 12th @ 3:00-4:00pm, GHC 9019
- Or by appointment.
- Wednesday Dec 11th @ 10:30-11:30am, GHC 5th Floor Commons
There will not be additional office hours for the TAs after Saturday December 7th.
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/fall2024/files/CMU_ONLY/fe-practice-F24-{clean,sols}.pdf' \
--remote-name-all -O
# To download via wget
$ wget https://15445.courses.cs.cmu.edu/fall2024/files/CMU_ONLY/fe-practice-F24-clean.pdf
$ wget https://15445.courses.cs.cmu.edu/fall2024/files/CMU_ONLY/fe-practice-F24-sols.pdf