Information about the final exam

Grades: [Ascending order by ID number]

Date/location:

• During regular class time: Wednesday April 11

Review questions:

• [Questions]    [Key]

Instructions from the actual exam (so make sure you read them beforehand...important!):

• Duration: 75 Minutes
• This is a closed book exam: No aids of any sort will be allowed (e.g., cell phones must be shut off and out of sight, calculators, laptops, hand held computers, slide rulers, abaci should not be brought into the exam room) will be allowed.
• DO NOT OPEN the exam until you are told to do so.
• (NEW: THE FINAL EXAM WILL USE SCAN SHEETS LIKE MIDTERM I SO BRING PENCILS TO THE FINAL). For the multiple choice questions make sure that you select the best answer to each question on the computer bubble sheets using an HB pencil or darker. Make sure that you fill in the bubbles on the multiple choice answer sheet for all the labelled categories. (Neglecting to fill in all the information may result in your exam getting lost or not marked so it's important not to miss anything!) Here's the info for some of the categories that students typically miss.
   

  Date	Wednesday April 11
  Instructor	James Tam
  Section	01
  Course name	CPSC
  Course number	409

• For the non-multiple choice questions put your answer in the space provided.

Material that you should study

• The lecture material: the PowerPoint slides will provide you with an outline of the topics to be covered. However studying the information just listed on the slides won't be sufficient to do well on the final exam. You will also need to take notes in class and to study and understand those notes. If you have any questions then make sure that you ask me for help and clarification.
• The text book: they should be used as another source of material to help you understand the material as you prepare for the exam. I won't however directly examine you on material that is listed in the textbooks that I didn't cover in class.

Exam topics

Mainframes and early super computers

• History of the Internet (includes subsection on the private networks).
• Hardware and software houses
• Online search
• History of video and computer games
• History of HCI? (Well see how far we get in the last lecture).

Exam breakdown (based on a rough version of the exam)¹

1 The final version may include a few small changes.

2 Non-multiple choice questions could include: short answer questions or matching type questions