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Final Review. CSE487 B.Ramamurthy. Place and Time. Date: 12/14/2010, Time: 3.30-5.30PM (2 hour exam) Place: Park 440 Please bring Pencils, pens and erasers. 4 pages of any information you like. Topics: focus on Data-intensive Computing.
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Final Review CSE487 B.Ramamurthy B.Ramamurthy
Place and Time • Date: 12/14/2010, • Time: 3.30-5.30PM (2 hour exam) • Place: Park 440 • Please bring • Pencils, pens and erasers. • 4 pages of any information you like B.Ramamurthy
Topics: focus on Data-intensive Computing • Enabling technologies: algorithms, data models, web services, virtualization, power of multi-core, monitoring, load balancing, bandwidth capabilities, … • Algorithms and data models: Hadoop and MapReduce • Data-intensive approaches to (IR), DM and ML. • Cloud models: Amazon EC2 associated, Windows Azure and Google App Engine • Pig and Hive • Cloud architecture: Reliability, availability, performance, etc. B.Ramamurthy
Exam Format • 4 questions on the topics mentioned in the last slide (80%) • Each question will have subsections • I do not have cost analysis (we covered this in take home part – 20%), but other analysis and evaluation are includes: see the class notes B.Ramamurthy
How to study? • Class notes • Blue book chapters: 2,3 and 4 • Intelligent web: chapter on clustering and classification • Your project 2 B.Ramamurthy
How to answer the questions? • Use a diagram: preferably a standard UML diagram • Use a list instead of an essay • Do NOT fill up pages with non-sense or verbatim copy of your cheat-sheet (you will be penalized if you do) • Clearly show the formula/expressions used in your computations and show all the steps not just the final answer • Use pseudo code where necessary B.Ramamurthy