General Exam Information

The class will have  two  exams (one midterm and one final).

Midterm

Tuesday, March 22,  20-21:30 in LTC

The exam will be closed book.  You may bring  a calculator, though (recommended). 
The exam will cover everything that we have learned in

  1. Chapter 1: Everything in the slides and textbook (Kurose & Ross, 3rd ed)
  2. Chapter 2: Everything in the slides and textbook
  3. Chapter 3. slides pp. 1-93, 99-112, and associated information in textbook

As mentioned in class, for the rdt protocols  (1.0-3.0)  in Chapter 3, you need to understand the protocols but you do not need to memorize them. If questions are asked concerning those protocols,  the protocol descriptions will be provided on the exam.   For the GBN and Selective Repeat protocols you will be expected to have memorized the details of the protocols, though.

Added March 23, 2005
Midterm grades available here
Midterm answer key available here

Post-exam office hours. 
Thursday March 24, 2005, 2-3PM
Room 4209: to pick up exam
Room 3559; to ask questions about exam

Final Exam

Note: This section was updated 05/25/2005 11:59 PM with the addition of slide pages 113 and 115-129 in section 3

Saturday, May 21,  12:30-3:30 pm in 3007

The exam will be closed book.  You may bring  a calculator, though (recommended). 
The exam will cover everything that we have learned in

  1. Chapter 1: Everything in the slides and textbook (Kurose & Ross, 3rd ed)
  2. Chapter 2: Everything in the slides and textbook
  3. Chapter 3. slides pp. 1-93, 99-113, 115-129 and associated information in textbook
  4. Chapter 4: Everything in the slides. 
    Everything in the textbook EXCEPT for section 4.7 (broadcast & multicast, which we did not learn)
  5. Chapter 5: Everything in the slides and associated textbook information
        EXCEPT    slides p. 59,  pp. 64-65 and pp. 113-116 (& associated textbook info)
  6. Chapter : Everything in the slides and pp. 503-523 in the textbook
     

Note that even though the exam officially covers everything we learnt all year, the vast majority of the exam questions will be on material from AFTER the midterm

Added May 24, 2005
Final Exam grades available here
Final exam  answer key available here

Post-exam office hours. 
Wednesday, May 25, 2005, Room 3530
2-3PM   &  4-4:30 PM

Added May 25, 2005
Additional Post-exam office hours. 
Friday, May 27, 2005 2-3PM
Room 4209: to see exam
Room 3559; to ask questions about exam

 

 

Exam Content & Old Exams

For examples as to the type of material that will be examined  and how it will be tested please see the following three exams from the Fall 2002 semester

Midterm1        Midterm 2       Final

the following two exams from the Fall 2003 semester

Midterm      Final

and the following two from the Spring 2004 Semester

Midterm      Final

Please note that  the class structure has changed a bit;  in Fall 2002 there were three exams whereas in Fall 2003  and Spring 2004 there were only two.  Also,  a  few of the questions on those exams cover material that we will not be seeing (whereas we might see some material not on those exams). But,  in general,  most of the questions from those exams,  could be asked on our exams.

One exception to the above statement concerns the Distance-Vector algorithm from chapter 4.  Note that the 3rd edition of the textbook uses a totally different notation for  Distance-Vector algorithms than did the 2nd edition.  This means that distance vector questions from the old exams might not make sense to you.

last updated 05/25/2005 by M.J. Golin