CPSC 409: Midterm II Information
Exam dates/times
Midterm II topics
- Topics from Midterm I that could show up
again on Midterm II (albeit in a minor form).
- Exam instructions and general
information1 (that is,
information from this link as well as the [general
exam information link] can show up as questions on the exam).
- Administrative lecture material
(grading and other topics covered at the start of the term).
- There will be a roughly equal proportion of questions from each of these
three sections:
- Charles Babbage and his machines
- The mechanical monsters
- The electronic revolution
- SPCs and memory types (becomes a part of
Midterm III)
Multiple-choice review questions:
- They will take the form of D2L
Quizzes (Assessments->Quizzes)
- During lecture as I covered the
material I will provided suggestions of what an exam-like question may look
like. You can look to your class notes for this info and note the details as
it comes up.
Sample non-multiple question: Mechanical monsters
Briefly describe how to convert a value from regular
binary (the most common representation for binary and likely what you were
taught when introduced to non-decimal number systems such as octal and
hexadecimal) to Binary Coded Decimal (BCD). [Solution]
Number of questions
1: Miscellaneous: could include questions that
don't fall neatly into one of the other categories or span multiple sections of
the course.
|
Min percent |
GPA |
|
0 |
0 |
|
15 |
0.1 |
|
25 |
0.3 |
|
35 |
0.5 |
|
40 |
0.7 |
|
44 |
1 |
|
46 |
1.1 |
|
48 |
1.2 |
|
50 |
1.3 |
|
51 |
1.4 |
|
53 |
1.5 |
|
54 |
1.6 |
|
55 |
1.7 |
|
56 |
1.8 |
|
58 |
1.9 |
|
60 |
2 |
|
61 |
2.1 |
|
63 |
2.2 |
|
65 |
2.3 |
|
66 |
2.4 |
|
68 |
2.5 |
|
69 |
2.6 |
|
70 |
2.7 |
|
71 |
2.8 |
|
73 |
2.9 |
|
75 |
3 |
|
76 |
3.1 |
|
78 |
3.2 |
|
80 |
3.3 |
|
82 |
3.4 |
|
84 |
3.5 |
|
86 |
3.6 |
|
88 |
3.7 |
|
90 |
3.8 |
|
91 |
3.9 |
|
92 |
4 |
|
95 |
4.1 |
|
97 |
4.2 |
|
100 |
4.3 |