Examination Guidelines

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Exam Times
Everyone takes the exams at the same time:

• Exam I: 6:30pm – 8:00pm (Central Time), Wednesday, October 04, 2023
• Exam II: 6:30pm – 8:00pm (Central Time), Wednesday, November 15, 2023
• Final exam: 6:30pm – 8:30pm (Central Time), Wednesday, December 13, 2023

Exam Rules

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. 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, and submit them via either one of the following two methods immediately:
  
  
  1. Post them on the Blackboard or
  2. Email them back to the instructor at wenchen@cs.und.edu .


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

Question Style

• Closed books and closed notes


• Video contents will not be covered.


• MANY questions are modified from the examples and questions in class slides and programming exercises.


• All exams are NOT comprehensive. However, you may need all the knowledge learned from this course to answer the questions.


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


• The weight of each exam is 20% of the final grade.