Carnegie Mellon University 
15-415 - Database Applications 
C. Faloutsos, Fall 2009

Final exam guidelines

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

• Chapters 1-5
• Chapters 8-20
• Chapter 28.1-4,6
• all the material on the lecture foils (except 'Data Warehousing & Data Mining' and except 'Distributed DBMSs')

Additional information:

• The exam questions will be very similar  to the exercises in the textbook, to the midterm questions and to the homework exercises.
• No aids allowed (no books, no notes, no laptops) - only a calculator and 2 letter-size pages (you may use all 4 sides)
• Make sure you bring a calculator - several of the questions will require numerical results.
• The exam will be comprehensive, with more emphasis on the material after the midterm
• Date and place, as announced at the 'Hub': http://www.cmu.edu/hub/current-finals.pdf 
• Mon. December 14 5:30p.m.-8:30p.m. GHC 4307

Extra office hours by instructor

• Fr 12/11, 12-1pm
• Mo 12/14, 12-1pm
• And, by appointment

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Last modified: Dec. 2, 2009, by C. Faloutsos