Final exam rules and question distribution

Final Exam Rules and Question Distribution

Exam Time

Exam Rules
By using the following exam rules, it could greatly simplify and flex the exam taking (e.g., more time could be given if needed), and make you feel more comfortable while taking the exam. Therefore, please be honest because we want to avoid using a much stricter method like ProctorU.

The whole exam will be monitored from Zoom. Finish setting up and signing in to the Zoom (at https://und.zoom.us/j/2489867333) 30 minutes before the exam.

Have to use your real name, not nickname, for Zoom, so the instructor can identify the students correctly.

Turn on the webcam and speaker, mute the microphone, and keep them active during the exam. Take one of the following approaches:

If you have a printer and a wired/wireless webcam (or two computers), point the webcam to show you, (exam) paper, desk, computer (if for Zoom), and scanner or phone (if for photoing the answers), like the figure above.

If you have a wired/wireless webcam, point the webcam to show you, (exam) paper, desk, computer (for exam questions), and scanner or phone (if for photoing the answers).

If you have a phone installed with Zoom, point the phone to show you, (exam) paper, desk, computer (for exam questions), and scanner or phone (if for photoing the answers).

If you have a computer webcam, point the webcam to show you, (exam) paper, desk, and scanner or phone (if for reading the exam questions or photoing the answers).

If you do not have anything, 🤐

The .pdf exam will be emailed to your UND email account a few minutes before the exam time.

Start the exam as soon as you receive it. You can either
1. Print the exam and write the answers on the exam, or
2. Read the exam questions from the computer or phone and write the answers on papers.

It is an exam of closed books and notes. During the exam, you are NOT allowed to use the computers, keyboards, mice, and cell phones, other than reading the exam questions or communicating with the instructor. All communications are through Zoom chat. In addition, you can only leave your seat after asking.

At the end of the exam, you can either
1. Scan the exam or papers, or
2. Take pictures of the exam or papers.
Make sure the result files are correct and clear!

Submit the files via either one of the following two methods immediately:
- Upload them to the Blackboard or
- Email them back to the instructor at wenchen@cs.und.edu .
Do not leave until you receive a confirmation from the instructor.

The exam will be highly suspected if fail to follow the above rules.

Question Style

Closed books and closed notes

Though this exam will not cover Exams I & II materials, you may need all the knowledge such as HTML, PHP, and SQL learned from this course to answer the questions.

All questions are from or derived from the class slides.

Question types may include: (i) true-or-false, (ii) multiple choices, (iii) matching, (iv) blank filling, (v) question-and-answer, and (vi) programming.

The following code will be given in the exam if needed:

$username = "your-id@undcsmysql";
$password = "your-pw";
$database = "your-db";
$host     = "undcsmysql.mysql.database.azure.com";
$conn     = new mysqli( $host, $username, $password, $database );

// Connect to the database.
if ( $conn->connect_error )
  die( 'Could not connect: ' . $conn->connect_error );

Major Question Distribution

The following materials will be covered:
- Covering the slides of Weeks 13, 14, 15, & 16, and
- NO reference links (under the label ☂ References), NO video clips, jokes, idioms, and quotes (they are for refreshing your memory while studying).

AJAX (Week 13): 20% – 30%
- AJAX concepts
- Questions ⇒ AJAX code
- Web interface + results ⇒ AJAX code
- XML DOM may be needed.

XML, HTML DOM, and JSON (Week 14): 20% – 30%
- Questions ⇒ JavaScript/JSON/PHP code
- JavaScript/JSON code ⇒ output
- Web interface + results ⇒ JavaScript/JSON/PHP code
- PHP XML DOM and SimpleXML

JavaScript (Week 15): 30% – 40%
- Questions ⇒ JavaScript code
- JavaScript code ⇒ output
- Web interface + results ⇒ JavaScript code

NPM (Week 16): 10% – 20%
- Concepts
- NO tough/detailed programming questions will be asked.
- Questions ⇒ Code
- Code ⇒ output
- Web interface + results ⇒ Code

^†Note that one question, like an AJAX question, may include sub-questions from several topics such as HTML, DOM, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, and XML.

Recommendations
To prepare the exam:

Study the slides of Weeks 13, 14, 15, and 16 very carefully and one by one.