There will be two examinations. Both have equal weight.
The first one (referring to operating systems) is an oral and individual examination. The time frame for this exam is 25 minutes (+ 5 minutes for potential clarifications and to give you an indication about your performance). For legal and organizational reasons, the 'on-the-spot' indication is no binding information. The final schedule is published below on this page. There will be two examiners present (Uwe R. Zimmer & Holger Kenn).
Some hints for the oral examinations:
Train to talk about the topics and to transfer your knowledge in a structured and compact form.
Get to the point of the questions first, then expand with all the things which you know additionally about the addressed topic.
You need to be precise in your formulations. If it takes a second to order to thoughts and to answer the question: take your time, perhaps make some notes.
You do not need to be overpolite. If you are full of additional or alternative answers: talk and deliver until we stop you.
Very often it is helpful to write down some keywords or to sketch a little figure. Sometimes we will even ask you explicitly to draw a specific figure in order to give you the chance to explain your points more precisely.
The nature of the questions is:
checking the basic understanding of the field (approx. 50%).
checking the ability to be critical about the introduced concepts (approx. 30%).
checking the ability to handle the introduced concepts in a creative way (approx. 20%).
You might convince yourself that the process is nice and fair by asking students, which finished the exam already, i.e. you may exchange all kinds of information about the oral exam process. The questions will be all different though, and such additional information which you might get from other students will not be helpful in a technical sense.
The second (written) examination will be close to the exam style which you know from the previous semester.
Operating systems examinations schedule (25 minutes)
(50%)
Session I
Session II
Session III
Session IV
Wednesday,
19. 3. '03
15:00-18:00
Thursday,
20. 3. '03
15:00-18:00
Friday,
21. 3. '03
10:00-13:00
Saturday,
22. 3. '03
09:30-16:30
09:30
Abdurazak Mudesir
15:00
-
15:00
-
10:00
Akhil Agrawal
10:00
Vinod Patmanathan
15:30
Timur Torgautov
15:30
Azim Toktosunov
10:30
Vlad Horia Balan
10:30
Uros Urosevic
16:00
Andreas Pfeil
16:00
Ioan Hepes
11:00
Oliver Wamanga
11:00
Premvir Jain (excused)
16:30
-
16:30
Andreas Kolling
11:30
Aakash Jain
11:30
Carl Joni Cabrera
17:00
-
17:00
Gediminas Luksys
12:00
Milko Krastev
12:00
Christoph Burger-Scheidlin
17:30
Vladimir Kirilov
17:30
Mostafa Afgani
12:30
Sonia Borissova
13:30
Dumitru Erhan
14:00
Max Pfingsthorn
14:30
Benjamin Liebald
15:00
Cosmin Condea
15:30
Dan Popovici
16:00
Edwin Chisanga
all examinations are in research I, room 119
Result statistics for the operating systems section:
