There will be a midterm exam, approximately halfway through the semester; tentatively, this is scheduled for October 3.
There will be a comprehensive final on Monday, December 5, at 1:00 PM (this is the day and time specified in the Schedule of Classes).
The Midterm and Final will both be in the same room as the class.
Some students have found it useful to have some of my old exams to use as study aids. Here's my archive.
My exams are always in-class, open-book, open-notes. You may bring in the text from this class, texts from other classes, other books you have found useful, or any other references you want. You may bring your lecture notes, my lecture notes off the web, lecture notes photocopied from other class members, lecture notes from past semesters... you get the idea.
No electronic aids are allowed: no calculators, no computers, no cell phones.
Students have occasionally found it useful to bring in templates for questions (for instance, Intel virtual memory tranlsations). That's OK, too.
In order to provide anonymous grading, I require students to put their student ID numbers (normally that's your Social Security Number) instead of their names on exams. I will take points off if your name appears on your exam. In grading the exams, I divide each exam into a pile of answers to the first question, a pile for the second, and so forth. Consequently, each question must begin on a new piece of paper (not the back side of another piece of paper!) and each page you turn in must include your Student ID number. I'll take points off for not following this one, too.
Final Exam Topics