The main chapters to review are:
6. (but not 6.9 nor 6.10)
7. (but not 7.6.4. - 7.6.6 )
9. (not 9.4.3-9.4.x), and not 9.6 onwards.
10. 10.3 only
REMINDER: The first exam in CS4432 will be on TUESDAY, 3rd of April, 2001 at 2pm. The exam will be an in-class closed book exam.
Exam1 will be closed book and closed notes. However, you are allowed to bring one single one-page (regular size) cheat-sheet. You must have prepared the sheet yourself. You cannot reuse a sheet created by someone else and/or copied from somewhere.
Material to review for our course book:
Review the following chapters from your course book:
1.1-1.5 (general db concepts):
2.1-2.4 (disk layout/storage) :
3.1-3.6 (data representation/buffering) :
4.1-4.4 (indexing):
How to prepare yourself for the exam:
First, we suggest that you do and then again review all homeworks
of the course carefully.
Second, we suggest you do the problems at end of chapters.
Note that you can find solutions to many of those problems
by browsing over the webpages of the DB-2 offerings
given at Stanford university. Those are linked into our
course page under "Syllabus".
How the exam may look like in style:
To get a sense for what type of exams I typically give, you may want to look at: