HW Exam
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HW Exam Overview
- The exam timeline is marked on the calendar:
- inclass: Thursday 19 October
- The exam is a paper exam covering topics listed below.
- Some study suggestions are included below.
Exam Logistics
The exam will be in person during class time.
You may bring a provided paper blue book that you can fill with your own notes to the exam (you may not bring textbooks or electronic material). Blue books will be available the week before the exam in class or picked up from Alexa’s office (W116).
Honor Code
The exam is subject to the Honor Code.
You may not give or receive help on the exam. You may not share details of the exam questions or what material is covered until exam solutions have been released to everyone in the course. At that point, you can discuss the exam with other Fall 2023 CS240 students (you should not provide this information to any future CS240 students).
You are encouraged to study with other students and can prepare your own paper notes with other students.
Topics
The exam does not focus on memorization and will include specific required information for certain sections (e.g., you do not need to memorize the exact set of instructions provided by the HW ISA). However, you should know offhand, for example, how to draw and use a 2-to-1 multiplexer, how to write a binary number in hex, or how to construct the truth table for XOR.
- The exam focoses on topics under the
Computational Building Blocks
part of the course.
- +Optional topics are excluded.
- Later topics, starting with Programming with Memory, are excluded.
- The exam assumes familiarity with the concepts used by assignments associated with the exam topics.
Study Materials
The following materials may be of use in studying for the exam:
- Lecture slides, videos, and associated exercises
- Lab exercises
- Assignments
- The chapters we have used in the DDCA and CSAPP books include many good problems. Inventing problems by making small changes to homework/lab problems is also useful.
Here are some relevant problems from the two textbooks to look over. We suggest you pick and choose from these problems, rather than trying to do them all.
- CSAPP
- Practice problems with solution in book: 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.5, 2.8, 2.9, 2.12, 2.13, 2.14, 2.15, 2.16, 2.22, 2.23, 2.32, 2.44
- Exercises: 2.61, 2.64, 2.65, 2.66, 2.69, 2.73, 2.82,
- DDCA
- Exercises: 1.7, 1.8, 1.9a, 1.9b, 1.11, 1.13, 1.15, 1.17, 1.19, 1.26, 1.27, 1.33, 1.34, 1.35, 1.38, 1.48, 1.50, 1.51, 2.1, 2.3, 2.7, 2.16, 2.22, 2.25, 2.29