The Exam Plan
What Plan?
The general format of the yet to be written exam will be discussed today.
More Information
The following lectures are not explicitly examined:
Lecture 1: Computer Networks Overview
Lecture 2: A Network Architecture Example
Lecture 7: The Programming Interface (sockets, etc)
The structure of the exam will be similar to previously set exams.
Questions may not all
carry the same marks. The marks for each question have not been
set at this stage.
Note, however, that the exam is still worth 60% of the final
assessment for the subject.
Note, also, that each question may have many parts, and in some
cases, sub parts. It is in your interest to try
and keep all the answers to each question together in your
answer booklet.
Exam Hints
There will be three kinds of questions on the exam:
- Questions taken from last year's exam, perhaps with some
slight modifications to remove ambiguity or to change the
emphasis.
- Questions derived from the tutorials, often with the
wording changed slightly to ensure a single correct answer.
Questions in this category have not appeared on exams before.
- Brand new questions, taken from the lecture notes, and
requiring deeper understanding and appreciation of the
discipline to answer fully. These may be
developed from tute questions, or older exam papers,
but worded differently.
If You Enjoyed It
Finally, the advertising.
If you enjoyed this subject, you should investigate:
(delivered by Phil Scott):
BITDCO: Data Communications
Data Communications covers the technical aspects of
Computer Networks in much more detail. It actually overlaps
slightly with BITCNE: Computer Networks, because of
- The nature of the subject area. The Network (IP) and
Transport (TCP/UDP) layers are covered in both, but in
more detail in BITDCO.
- A large proportion of students take only one of BITCNE
and BITDCO, and it's important that they don't miss these
important topics.
BITDCO: Data Communications is only offered in
second semester.
Note that if you're completing your degree at this time,
you could consider enrolling in Honours, and taking Current
Communications Standards, also offered in second semester
this year.
Finally, if you're sure you've failed (:-( you can
probably re-enrol in BITCNE in first semester next year, when it's
taught by Phil Scott.
This lecture is NOT available in PostScript format.
There is no tutorial for this lecture.
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