Midterm: Server-Side Information

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Midterm: Client-Side Information

When & Where: Online, through Gradescope.com can start the exam between Thu, 04/08 12:00pm PDT to Fri, 04/09 11:59pm PDT.

Length & format: 80 minutes, online exam.

Topics: Database Basics, Database Design (Lecture #13) to CRUD Part 2 (Lecture #19)

Types of Questions: 

  • Multiple choice – select one answer
  • Multiple choice – select all that apply
  • True/False
  • Fill in the blank
  • Short Code

How to take the exam:

  • Log in to gradescope.com. You will need to create an account if you haven’t already with your USC email address.
  • Once you have logged in, you should see “Midterm: Server-side Exam”
  • For the short code questions, write your code on Sublime Text or other text editor first. Then copy paste the answers to gradescope. This will help maintain the format of the code (e.g. indentation) and also you can run your code before submitting it.
  • Have questions during the exam? Because you are allowed to take the exam at any time, we will be unable to answer questions you have during the exam like you would in a physical setting. Make your best educated guess and for really uncertain questions make a note about it separately and email it to the instructor after the exam.

Important Notes:

  • This is an open book exam. You may use notes, slides, and online resources. The only thing you CANNOT do is collaborate with any human beings on this exam. Do not discuss with anyone about the exam. Your exam must be completed on your own, by yourself.
    • Any suspicion of collaboration will be reported to SJACS.
  • I highly recommend you create one single reference sheet instead of scouring your notes/slides/etc during the exam. This is a timed test so you want to limit time wasted on looking stuff up.
  • You will be asked to design a database and create an EER diagram (like the Simple Film Database lab). You can hand-draw one up, take a photo of it and upload it, or use Workbench to create one.

Tips:

  • Anything that appeared on the lecture or the slides is fair game. The best way to study for this exam is to review the code from lectures and your labs and assignments and review what each line of the code does. Rewriting some of the code is very helpful.
  • Review the links under Resources/Helpful Reading under each lecture notes to get a deeper understanding of topic(s) taught in that lecture.