Final Exam Guide
Information
- Time:
- Monday, April 28, 2025, 5:30pm- 8:30pm
- Location:
- Scaife Hall 105 and Scaife Hall 234
Important: Everyone should report to Scaife Hall 105 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 (SF105 and SF234).
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, 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/S25/feedback/
Office Hours
Jignesh's Office Hours:- Thursday April 24th @ noon-2:00pm (GHC 9103)
There will not be additional office hours for the TAs after Saturday April 26th.
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/spring2025/files/CMU_ONLY/fe-practice-S25-{clean,sols}.pdf' \
--remote-name-all -O
# To download via wget
$ wget https://15445.courses.cs.cmu.edu/spring2025/files/CMU_ONLY/fe-practice-S25-clean.pdf
$ wget https://15445.courses.cs.cmu.edu/spring2025/files/CMU_ONLY/fe-practice-S25-sols.pdf