The third and final exam will be at 3pm on Saturday, December 14. Location Swords 328.
It covers everything we have done this semester, from the top of the
protocol stack to the bottom, but will be heavily biased towards the most
recent material we have covered since the last exam. The exam is
closed
book, closed internet, and closed notes, but you may use a simple
calculator if you like, and
you can bring one page of handwritten
notes (front and back)..
- final review sheet includes a list of topics and some exercises.
- final review sheet partial solutions can be found here
- See also: some notes about hw5
- Some of the K&R textbook questions are good practice as well.
Also, most GenAI models like Claude or ChatGPT understand networking really well and can quiz you.
- I will have office hours Wednesday 10:30-11:30 and 1:30-2:30.
- I can be available for office hours at a variety of other times during the week of
Dec 9, just email me with a date and time you'd like to meet, or
put your name down on my calendar.
The first exam will be on Tuesday, October 8, 4-6pm in Swords 321
Smith Labs 155. It covers all of Kurose and
Ross Chapter 1 and most of of Chapter 2, everything up through and including DNS.
- Here
is a review sheet you may want to use to help study, including a list of
topics.
- Be sure to check out the HTTP Performance Enhancements reading as well, since it has many detailed
numerical exercises and solutions.
- Partial solutions for hw2 and the review sheet MAY be posted, but not
until a few days before the exam. This is to ensure you have time to try
the questions yourself first, before being tempted to look at the
solutions.
- Here are some partial solutions for review questions
Honor System: The exam will be closed book, closed notes. You can use a calculator.
The second exam will be on Wednesday, November 13 in Swords 328. It
covers all of TCP, UDP, and sockets. You should be familiar with the
Go-Back-N, Stop-and-Wait, and similar protocols from Kurose and Ross, but
those will not be emphasized, especially not the specific details of each
variation presented in the textbook. Instead, focus on TCP. The exam is
closed book, closed internet, but you may use a simple calculator and you
can bring one page of handwritten notes (front and back)..