Computer Science 455
Final Exam Review:
Disclaimer: I have attempted to be comprehensive in the following,
but important items may have been omitted by mistake. If you see such
an omission, please let me know, but you are responsible for all of
the lecture material to date.
The final exam will be on Thursday, May 11, at 4:00, and be a
comprehensive, two -hour exam. To prepare yourself for this exam, I
recommend:
- Review the exam review documents for the previous three hour
exams, together with the reading suggested in those exam review
documents. Issues in those exam reviews which were marked as "to
do later" are now possible elements of the final exam (i.e.,
everything's up for grabs).
- Review homework and exams
- Material since the last exam which may be included on the
final exam:
- Top-down and bottom-up design. Please refer to the keys
sent out yesterday.
- The Codd-Date taxonomy of relational systems (fully
relational, completely relational, etc.).
- Problems with the relational model
- Brief survey of the object oriented model
- Please recall that, among its other uses, a final exam should
tie together various parts of the semester. Accordingly, expect
more essay questions than might have appeared in earlier exams
(but still expect to do some detailed problems as well).
Any questions? Please ask!
-Bob