Exams
My exams are generally cumulative: anything we’ve covered in the course up to the point at which you take the exam is fair game. I may also include questions about assigned mandatory readings, homework assignments, or any other class content that you are supposed to have viewed.
My exam design philosophy is to aim for a wide range of question difficulties: I try to include both some questions that I think every student should get right and some questions that I think are difficult enough that only those who have deeply understood multiple concepts that we covered in class will even be able to answer them in a reasonable way, and everything in between.
To help you prepare for this class’ exams, below you can find links to exams from my undergraduate software engineering course, all of which have solutions (“keys”). These exams are for a lower-level but broader course, so you’ll want to be careful when studying using them—not everything on these exams will be covered in this class. I’m releasing them to you here so that you can get an idea of the sorts of exam questions that I like to ask, and so that you’ll be prepared for the format of the exams (I expect the exams in 684 to follow the same general format).
CS 490 Sp23 Practice Final (key)