Carnegie Mellon University
15-415/615 - Database Applications
C. Faloutsos & A. Pavlo, Spring 2014

Final exam guidelines

Material to be examined: From the textbook (R&G, edition 3):

• Chapters 1-5
• Chapters 8-20
• Chapter   22.1, 22.2, 22.3, 22.6, 22.7, 22.8, 22.11,   22.13 and 22.14 (Distributed Databases)
  
• Chapter 25.1-3 (Data Warehousing)
• Chapter 26.1, 26.2.1, 26.3.1-2, 26.4.1 (Data Mining, Decision Trees, Association Rules)
• and all the material on the lecture foils 

IMPORTANT additional information:

• No aids allowed (no books, no notes, no laptops) - only
  
• a calculator (strongly recommended) and 
• 2 letter-size pages (you may use all 4 sides)
• The exam will be comprehensive, with more emphasis on the material after the midterm.

Reminders

• The exam questions will be very similar  to the exercises in the textbook, to the midterm questions and to the homework exercises.
• Solutions to the odd-numbered exercises of the textbook.
• Date and place, as announced at the 'Hub': http://www.cmu.edu/hub/current-finals.pdf 
• Tue May 6, 2014, 5:30-8:30pm, Wean Hall (WEH) 7500

Extra office hours by Faloutsos

• During the 'usual' office hours and, in addition:
  • Fri 5/2, 3-4pm
    
  • Mo 5/5, 2-3pm

Reminder: FCE - optional, but most appreciated:

• at the usual place: https://cmu.smartevals.com/ (needs your andrew credentials)
  

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Last modified: April 30, 2014, by C. Faloutsos & A. Pavlo