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Operating Systems Design and Implementation (Spring 2025)

Exam Date & Location

The CIS 4480/5480 Final Exam will be held Monday May 5th from 9:00am-11:00 am.. The exam is split across two locations. Your last name will decide which room you will take it in

Exam Policies

You will have 120 minutes to complete the exam. We will be beginning as soon as possible, so please show up to class early if you can. We will the distribute the exam early so that you can read and fill out the front page of the exam, but you should not look at the exam questions until you are told to begin. During the exam, some course staff will be walking around the room to answer any clarifying questions and watch out for any cheating cases.

Materials

Clobber Policy

The clobber policy allows you to demonstrate mastery of past material with regard to exams. This exam is cummulative, and you can think of this exam has having a “sub section” that covers the material on the first exam. You can replace your midterm exam score with the score of the sub-section of the final exam. This does not apply in reverse, we will not replace your sub-section score of the final with your midterm exam score.

To accommodate for the subsection of the final exam being harder/easier than the midterm exam itself, we have a formula that accounts for average and standard deviation.

  1. First, we calculate Potential Midterm Clobber Score with: (final_sub_score - final_sub_mean) / final_sub_std_deviation * midterm_std_deviation + midterm_mean, capped at 100
  2. Then we take the maximum score between the calculated potential clobber score and the grade you had on the midterm. The higher of the two will automatically be used to calculate your course grade.

Cheating

Cheating is a very serious issue and will be vigorously prosecuted. You are not allowed to:

We cannot create a detailed list of everything that would be considered cheating, this would be beyond reasonable to create and to expect students to read. It is up to you know when you are cheating, if you are unsure for any reason if something is cheating, you can ask the instructor. Though if you have to ask, it will likely be considered cheating.

Topics

The final exam topics will cover everything from the beginning of the class, with some exceptions. Below you can find a list of some of the course topics and some of the topics that are exempt from the final If a topic is not listed below, you can ask about whether it is testable material.

Topic Exceptions

Potential Topics:

If you don’t see something listed above as a potential topic or an exception, then feel free to post on Ed and we will clarify whether you may be tested on it in the exam.

Exam Practice

Advice

We highly recommend that you do some of these questions in a “test-taking environment” before going over the answers. The questions that will be gone over in the review during lecture will likely be more similar in style to what can be expected on the exam.

You may also find it helpful to review old homework assignments, lecture polls and check-in quizzes while studying.

Practice Questions

There will be some review questions gone over in lecture and recitation around the time of the exam. Check the course schedule and we will post the materials when we have them ready.

Final Exam Review

The TA’s will hold a final exam review session on Saturday May 3rd from 6pm to 8pm, tentatively in Towne 217.

Old Review Questions

Old Exams