Final Review
CSE487
B.Ramamurthy
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Place and Time
Date: 12/14/2010,
Time: 3.30-5.30PM (2 hour exam)
Place: Park 440
Please bring
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Pencils, pens and erasers.
4 pages of any information you like
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Topics: focus on Dataintensive Computing
Enabling technologies: algorithms, data models, web
services, virtualization, power of multi-core,
monitoring, load balancing, bandwidth capabilities, …
Algorithms and data models: Hadoop and MapReduce
Data-intensive approaches to (IR), DM and ML.
Cloud models: Amazon EC2 associated, Windows
Azure and Google App Engine
Pig and Hive
Cloud architecture: Reliability, availability,
performance, etc.
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Exam Format
4 questions on the topics mentioned in
the last slide (80%)
Each question will have subsections
I do not have cost analysis (we covered
this in take home part – 20%), but
other analysis and evaluation are
includes: see the class notes
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How to study?
Class notes
Blue book chapters: 2,3 and 4
Intelligent web: chapter on clustering
and classification
Your project 2
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How to answer the questions?
Use a diagram: preferably a standard UML
diagram
Use a list instead of an essay
Do NOT fill up pages with non-sense or
verbatim copy of your cheat-sheet (you will
be penalized if you do)
Clearly show the formula/expressions used in
your computations and show all the steps not
just the final answer
Use pseudo code where necessary
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