Exam #1 (CMSC122 (Fall 2021))

• Date: Wednesday, Sep 29, 2021
• Time/Location: Your exam will take place in lecture.
• Duration: 50 minutes
• Closed-book, Closed-notebooks, No Computers/Calculators.
• Use a pencil/mechanical pencil (no pen) to answer the exam.
• Posting any information in Piazza about the exam after taking it is considered an academic integrity violation.
• Do not separate the pages of the exam (e.g., remove the staple).

• Short answer questions: This includes for example, multiple choice, true/false, and fill-in-the-blank type questions.
• Code analysis questions: We will give a short segment of code and you may be asked to identify syntax and logical errors, generate code output, etc.
• Code Writing: Write HTML, CSS, and/or JS code to solve a given problem. You should be prepared to develop a complete webpage (small enough to be an exam problem), but we may also ask you to provide just the code for a sub-part of a whole webpage.

The exam will include all the material covered in lecture, quizzes, exercises, and project #1 including the following topics:

• Networking fundamentals
• Web Fundamentals
• IP Addresses
• Web Server
• DNS
• URLs
• Only the following HTML
  • How to define tables.
  • How to define ordered, unordered lists, and definition lists.
  • Other tags you should be familiar with:
    • <br />
    • <strong></strong>
    • <em></em>
    • <h1></h1> and the other 5 heading level tags
    • <div></div>
    • <span></span>
    • <p></p>
    • <pre></pre>
    • <img>
    • <a></a>
• Block level vs. Inline elements and examples of each
• Box Model
• Basics of CSS cascading rules, specificity, and inheritance
• Only the following CSS properties
  • font-family
  • background
  • color
  • font-size
  • text-align
  • margin
  • padding
  • border
  • font-style
  • font-weight
• Pseudo-classes
  • a:link
  • a:visited
  • a:hover
  • a:active
• Selectors
  • Universal selector
  • id selectors
  • class selectors
  • type selectors
  • descendant selectors
• DOM and DOM Trees (be able to draw one)
• Intro to JavaScript
  • Variables
  • Input(prompt)and output(document.writeln)
  • Expressions and operators
  • Conditionals (if/else)
  • Look over the examples/slides on JavaScript from Week 3 and Week4
• How to comment in all 3 languages
Practice Material

The Fall 2019 exam 1 can be found at PreviousExam.zip. Take this as a practice exam, but please study items that did not show up on this exam. For sure the Fall 2021 exam will have questions on it not found on the Fall 2019 exam.

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