Computer Networks (CITS3230) - Final examination

• The examination date is 9AM on Friday 20th June.

  Do NOT rely on this information - check for yourself via Student Connect.

• If you already know that you cannot sit the examination please let your Faculty Office know (not Chris McDonald), as soon as possible.

   

• The exam contributes 40% of your assessment in the unit.
• 2 hours and 10 minutes duration.
• The exam is closed-book - no books, notes, or calculators.
• The exam has 4 questions of equal value (20 marks each), with each question having 2 or 3 parts. Your are required to attempt 3 full questions.
• If you accidently attempt all 4 questions, only the first 3 questions that you attempt will be marked. Your 4th question will be ignored.
• Question 1 will examine topics on Data Communications; questions 2-4 will examine topics on Internetworking.
• Questions may be drawn from lecture notes, the textbook, and laboratory and tutorial work. You should ensure that you have copies of all lecture handouts, laboratory and tutorial sheets - all available via our webpages,
• The exam will not cover cnet coding. However, one of more questions may ask you to develop some pseudo-code, or code resembling Java or C. The syntactic correctness of your code will not be assessed.

   

• These sample exams are the actual final exams from 2005 and 2006 (I did not present this unit in 2007).

  Ignore Q1c from 2005, as this topic has not been covered this year.

• Sample exam solutions will not be provided.
• Please feel free to discuss your thoughts and answers via help3230.
• Two tutorials, at which the sample papers will be discussed, will be held in week 13 of semester (at 2PM Tue 3rd and Wed 4th June).
• Chris McDonald will be available in his office, CSSE Rm 2.20, to answer questions from 2PM-4PM on Mon 16th, Tue 17th, Wed 18th, and Thu 19th June.

Good luck,

Chris McDonald.
May 2008.