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Final Review

CSE487B.Ramamurthy

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Place and Time

Date: 12/14/2010, Time: 3.30-5.30PM (2 hour exam)Place: Park 440Please bring Pencils, pens and erasers. 4 pages of any information you like

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 MapReduceData-intensive approaches to (IR), DM and ML.Cloud models: Amazon EC2 associated, Windows Azure and Google App EnginePig and HiveCloud architecture: Reliability, availability, performance, etc.

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Exam Format

4 questions on the topics mentioned in the last slide (80%)Each question will have subsectionsI do not have cost analysis (we covered this in take home part – 20%), but other analysis and evaluation are includes: see the class notes

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How to study?

Class notesBlue book chapters: 2,3 and 4Intelligent web: chapter on clustering and classificationYour project 2

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How to answer the questions?

Use a diagram: preferably a standard UML diagramUse a list instead of an essayDo 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 answerUse pseudo code where necessary

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