Preparation for Quiz 1
Quiz 1 is at 2:00 on Friday, March 10, 2006. The quiz will cover
all the material up to and including the March 7 Tuesday
recitation (#8). The quiz will be "open book." That means you can
bring along any printed or written materials that you think might
be useful. Calculators are allowed, though not necessary; cell
phones, laptops, and PDAs are off limits. 6.033 quizzes typically
begin with half a dozen or so independent questions that focus on
material in the readings followed by one or two longer, multi-part
questions that deal with concepts of computer systems covered in
the notes and lecture. The quiz will be, at least in part,
multiple choice.
Warning: the lectures touch on only a modest subset of the
totality of 6.033 concepts. Anything in the class notes assigned
prior to LEC9 may show up on the quiz.
The quiz will be held in the Walker Memorial Gym (50-340).
You can find old quiz questions to practice on in the Problems and
Solutions in Chapter 14 of the class notes. Be sure to check out
both the independent problems and the problem sets that pertain to
the current topics. Note that each problem in that section is
followed by a code that tells what year it was given and which
quiz it appeared on. Although there has been a little
rearrangement of material over the years, you should be able to
answer most questions relevant to the subjects we have
covered.
It may also be helpful to look at old quizzes, and their
solutions, in the 6.033 web pages for 2002 (look at handouts
13-17) and 2003 (look at handouts 12, 13, and 15). Also, consult
the Quiz 1 solutions from 2004.
There will be a quiz review from 7:00 to 9:00 PM, Thursday, March
9 in room 32-123. During this time the TAs will go over an outline
of the covered subjects and explain a few questions from the
Problems and Solutions section of the class notes.
A subset of the staff (mostly TAs) will be holding marathon office
hours prior to the quiz.
The quiz date and time (2:00) was announced at the beginning of
the term, so you should not have problems with scheduling
conflicts. If, nevertheless, you have managed to create a
conflict, contact Prof. Kaashoek as soon as possible to resolve
the problem.
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