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Final examination information - 2023
- The final exam contributes 50% of your assessment in the unit.
- The duration of the final exam will be 2 hours
(no additional reading time).
- The exam paper will be taken by students in-person, on campus.
- The final exam is closed-book -
no lecture notes, textbooks, or electronic devices.
- You may bring to the examination
AT MOST ONE A4 (DOUBLE-SIDED) PAGE
of your own handwritten or typed notes.
- The final exam will consist of 6 pages and 5 QUESTIONS.
Each question has an equal value of 10 MARKS.
You are required to attempt ALL 5 QUESTIONS.
Questions may have one part (contributing 10 marks)
or two parts (contributing 5 marks each).
NOTE: In recent years,
the exam paper has contained either 4 or 6 questions,
but the exams were run under different conditions.
- All questions will be programming- or short-answer style questions
(no multiple choice).
- A question may require you to draw a diagram.
- The C code and functions
that you write will not be rigorously assessed for
its syntactic accuracy, although clear use of identifier names,
control-flow, and indentation, will be sought to assess the
intention of your answers.
- Write your answers in the standard 10-page examination answer book.
You may also use your answer book for any rough working;
clearly identify your rough working, and it will be ignored when marking.
- During the exam there is no opportunity to ask for any clarifications so,
near the top of any answer,
state any (unusual) assumptions that you have made in answering each question.
- Questions may be drawn from material covered in lectures;
from recommended reading (textbooks);
from laboratory, workshop, and project work, and their sample solutions.
- The focus of the 5 questions will be -
- 2-3 questions on features provided by the C11 programming language,
including C11 features and their interaction with operating systems facilities,
assessed through your writing one or more short functions
meeting a stated requirement;
- 2-3 questions focusing on operating system fundamentals,
assessed by reading your definitions and explanations
of operating system features;
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You can find past exam papers via the UWA Library website - search OneSearch for CITS2002
They have past papers from 2014-2022.
- Sample answers to past exam papers will not be provided.
Good luck,
Chris McDonald.
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