CPSC 203: Winter 2004 Lecture 9
Final Exam Review
• Basic Exam information
• Time and location
• Exam Regulations
• Illness during exam
• Taking the exam
• Chapter breakdown
• Brief Overview
• Tips and Strategies
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Basic Exam Information
• Time Limit: 2 hours
• 80 questions
• Multiple Choice
• No Calculators or Electronic Devices
• Closed book. No textbooks or notes
• Similar to midterm
• Bubble sheets
• HB pencils
• Erasers
• Pencil Sharpener
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Time and Location
• Date: Friday, April 23, 2004
• Time: 12:00 – 14:00
• Location: Red Gym
• Know where the Red Gym is before the date of
the exam!
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What if you become ill during the exam?
The university has many regulations regarding
exams:
• You must choose to finish the exam or leave
• If you choose to finish, there can be no deferrals
• If you choose to leave, you MUST go immediately
to a doctor so that the doctor can assess your
condition.
• You must obtain documentation about your
condition from the doctor
• If you do not immediately go to a doctor or you
do not receive documentation from the doctor,
you will not be permitted to apply for a deferral
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U of C Exam Regulations
• Students cannot leave the gym within 30 minutes
of the start of the exam
• Students cannot leave the gym in the last 15
minutes:
• If you finish in the last 15 minutes, you must
stay seated until the instructor picks up all of the
exams
• There will be an announcement when there is
15 minutes left in the exam
• You must have U of C ID and it must be on your
desk at all times during the exam.
• You must sign (not initial) the sign-in sheet
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Final Exam Breakdown
• I have analyzed the exam and the questions break
down as follows:
• Chapter 1:
• Chapter 2:
• Chapter 3:
• Chapter 4:
• Chapters 5, 6, & 8:
• Chapter 7:
• Chapters 9, 10, 11, & 12:
• Chapter 13:
2.5%
17.5%
16%
6%
19%
7.5%
24%
7.5%
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Chapter 1 – History
• Minimal coverage
• Remember, it’s a lot easier to understand where
you are going if you know where you’ve been
• Just because this chapter is not emphasized in the
exam doesn’t mean that it isn’t important!
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Chapter 2 – Hardware Basics: Inside the Computer
• High coverage
• Some questions taken from the midterm
• Be careful! They may have been changed
• Don’t forget the online notes on Computer
Architecture, Binary Numbers and Binary arithmetic
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Chapter 3 – Hardware Basics: Peripherals
• High coverage
• Some questions taken from the midterm
• Be careful! They may have been changed
• Don’t forget online notes on Secondary Storage
Devices
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Chapter 4 – Software Basics: Includes O/Ses
• Low-medium coverage
• This chapter was not included on the midterm.
• All new questions
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Chapters 5, 6, and 8 – Office Software
• High coverage
• Word Processing, Spreadsheets and Databases
• Similar to midterm
• Having completed the assignments will help with
these questions.
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Chapter 7 – Graphics and Multimedia
• Low-medium coverage
• This chapter was not included on the midterm.
• All new questions
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Chapters 9, 10, 11, and 12 - Networking
• Very high coverage
• There is a lot of overlap between these chapters,
so it’s difficult to put a single question in a single
chapter.
• Be sure to remember the online notes
• Communications and networking
• XML – Web services
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Chapter 13 – Software development, Programming
• Medium coverage
• This chapter was not included on the midterm.
• All new questions
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Tips and Strategies
• Read the exam fully. I have proofread the exam
but there is always the possibility of a mistake.
• eg. Pages out of order, miss-numbered
questions, etc.
• If in doubt, ask.
• Read the question FULLY!
• Double check your bubble sheet to ensure that it
contains your real answers.
• Bring more than one pencil, a sharpener, and an
eraser!
Craig Schock, 2004