Carnegie Mellon University
15-415/615 - Database Applications
C. Faloutsos, Spring 2013

Final exam guidelines

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

• Chapters 1-5
• Chapters 8-20
• Chapter 22.6, 22.10, 22.13 (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)
• Chapter 28.1-4, 28.6, 28.6.1 (Spatial Data Management - z-ordering, R-trees)
• and all the material on the lecture foils (except 'Multimedia DB' )

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 
• Fri. May 10, 2013, 8:30am-11:30am, GHC 4401

Extra office hours by instructor

• By appointment, and
• during the 'usual' office hours and class hours, that is:
  • Tu 5/7, 1:30-3pm
  • Wed 5/8, 12-1pm
  • Thu 5/9, 1:30-3pm

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Last modified: April 29, 2013, by C. Faloutsos