CSC 469F | Term Tests | Fall 2006

First Term Test

Thursday, October 26, 10:10a.m. - 12:00 noon, RW 142

You are responsible for all the material covered in the lectures and tutorials, as well as the assigned readings. In general, treat the readings similar to assigned textbook chapters. That is, additional information on topics introduced and discussed in lecture. You should pay particular attention to the motivation and general approach to the problem described by the papers. As a rule, I would expect you to be able to summarize/discuss the main ideas of the paper, but not to recall specific results. (for example, the categorization of virtual machines in the "Operating system support for virtual machines" paper, and the techniques used to improve Type II VMs, but not the performance gain due to each technique in isolation, or the combined techniques overall.)

See sample test for some ideas of the kinds of questions I might ask on the test. See sample answers for questions that I have been asked to answer.

Second Term Test

Thursday, December 7, 10:10 a.m. - 12:00 noon, RW 142

You are responsible for all material covered from Tuesday, October 24nd to Thursday, November 30th (inclusive).

By request, I have placed a sample question (and suggested answer) on page allocation here.