Find the final exams from the last nine Fall invocations of this course:

F2008finalExam.pdf	written solely by Daniel Berry.
exam-f09.pdf		written solely by Mike Godfrey.
exam-f10.pdf		written jointly by Mike Godfrey and Daniel Berry.
exam-f11.pdf		written solely by Daniel Berry.
exam-f12.pdf		written jointly by Richard Trefler and Daniel Berry.
exam-f13.pdf		written solely by Daniel Berry.
exam-f15.pdf		written solely by Daniel Berry.
exam-f16.pdf		written solely by Daniel Berry.
exam-f17.pdf		written solely by Daniel Berry.
exam-f18.pdf		written solely by Daniel Berry.
exam-f19.pdf		written solely by Daniel Berry.
ExamS20.pdf		written solely by Daniel Berry.
exam-s23.pdf		written solely by Daniel Berry.
exam-f24Q.pdf		written jointly by Daniel Berry and Rafael Toledo.
exam-f25Q.pdf		written solely by Daniel Berry.

There is no example for S21, because it was completely online with no
option for working on paper. Therefore this exam was structured entirely
differently from even that for S20. So it is not useful as a guide for what
a written exam could look like. I was on sabbatical for all of 2022.

We are not putting exams from before Fall 2008 there, because the
course was significantly different prior to the Fall of 2008 and there
are things on those exams that are just not relevant any more.

We put up ONLY the exams and NOT the solutions. It's hard enough to invent
new questions about the same material term after term. Posting the answers
makes it even harder.

If you have questions about any of YOUR answers to any question, just ask.
We won't give an answer. We will comment on YOUR answer.

Anything that is similar between the first and third probably comes
from Daniel. Anything that is similar between the second and third
probably comes from Mike. On the other hand, Mike and Daniel learned
from each other.

What's fair game for the exam, you ask?

You are required to know all material presented in any lecture. The
emphasis will be on material that you also had an opportunity to USE in
your projects. Nevertheless, none of the other material should be
forgotten. As for whether you need to memorize, we will try to write
the exam so that rote memorization of random facts is unnecessary.
However, you will be expected to paraphrase accurately the correct
statement of any important principle. Thus, you are encouraged to think
about the material and determine what is important to understand before
you begin any memorization.

For example, we might ask you how verification differs from validation,
how one might do a validation, how usability might be measured (from
the lecture on NFRs), or even what are the inputs to a function point
calculation (from the lecture on cost estimation), but we would not
ask you to regurgitate the numeric formula for the Flesch Reading Score
(from the lecture on NFRs), and we would not ask you to list all 16 of
the scaling factors for the function point calculation (from the lecture
on cost estimation).

Our advice:

If you have been attending class, have actively participated in class,
and have actively participated in your group's project, then you know
the stuff and you should go to an early movie the night before so that
you get plenty of sleep and can think on your feet (even though you will
be sitting down :-) ). If you do not meet one or more of the conditions
in the previous sentence, you have a lot of studying and thinking to do.

In any case, good luck and knock our (the profs and the TAs that will
be marking your exams) socks off!