General Information
- Date: Friday, Sept 24, 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.
- Bring a good eraser
- 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).This
will interfere with the scanning process.
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You need to bring your student id to the exam.
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We provide space in the exam to be used as scratch area (you cannot
bring your own scratch paper).
Exam Structure
- 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 a program/code snippets to solve a given
problem. You should be prepared to give a complete program/class, but we may also
ask you to provide just a single method or a code fragment.
Topics
The exam will include all the material covered during Week 1 to Week 4 in discussion session (lab),
lecture, quiz 1, and projects (#1 and #2) including the following topics:
- Object-Oriented Programming Principles (Abstraction, Encapsulation,
etc.)
- Testing/Program Correctness
- Code Coverage
- Specific Java Topics
- Definition and use of classes in inheritance relationships
- Definition and use of Java Interfaces
- Abstract Classes
- Arrays
- ArrayList
- StringBuffer (be familiar with the append method that takes a string
as a parameter and
the constructor that takes a String as parameter)
- Iterators
- Comparable Interface
- Comparator Interface
- instanceof opertator and .getClass method
- Iterable Interface
- "this"
- "super"
- Collections class methods (those used for the projects)
- Enhanced for loop
- Enumerated types
- Autoboxing and Unboxing
- Exceptions
- Visibility Modifiers
- Method Overloading/Overriding
- Packages
- equals method
- All CMSC 131 topics
- Program Testing (Writing JUnit tests)
Practice Material
Here are actual exam 1 from Fall 2018 and Fall 2019: PreviousExams.zip. I am just making this available for extra practice, but remember to review everything above not just what showed up on the exams in Fall 2018 and Fall 2019.