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Directions and preparing for the MVS Final Exam
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-IAN! idallen@idallen.ca

The MVS Final Exam takes place in a lab online under Linux in the exam
week at the end of the course.  Consult the department for the exact date:

  When: 11:30am Monday April 26, 2004 (2.5 hours)
  Rooms: T-114 and T-115.

If you wish to use a "crib sheet", you must prepare your "crib sheet"
and hand it in to your instructor by 18h00 (6pm) on the last day of
classes (Friday, April 23).  See the details on this, below.

The exam is typed in online using the VIM editor under Linux/Knoppix.
The exam is 135 minutes long.  (You have 10 minutes to get Knoppix up
and running before the exam starts, and 5 minutes spare for reboots and
other accidents.)  It contains a JCL problem similar to the JCL Example
files and homework we have been doing all term (especially Example 4),
and it contains some multiple-choice questions.  The final exam is worth
25% of your mark.

The exam covers all the JCL examples and related homework and all the MVS
weekly notes files.  The JCL parameters covered are all the parameters
listed in the examples and in the weekly.txt file found under "JCL Notes".

The MVS exam is closed-book and closed-notes.  You are not permitted
access to online MVS help files, MVS manuals, or MVS Web pages.  You will
use your Knoppix CD to login to a Linux test machine and will have nothing
available there but the VI editor and an empty directory.  Your Linux
home directory files will not be available.  You may not use FTP, telnet,
or WWW to connect to or copy files from other systems during the exam.

Blank paper will be available for notes and diagrams; any paper you
use must be handed in with the exam sheet.  You must code syntactically
correct JCL, obeying all MVS JCL column restrictions and requirements.

CRIB SHEET

    You are allowed to make one one-sided "crib sheet" for use in
    the exam.  Put your name on the sheet in easy-to-read letters in
    the top left hand corner of the paper.  Crib sheets with names in
    other places will be handed out last.  If I can't find your name,
    you won't get the sheet returned to you.

    The sheet must be handed in on real paper (no EMail) to your
    instructor by 6pm on the Friday before the exam - April 23.  If you
    can't hand the paper to me in person, put it under my office door or
    hand it to the CS Department secretary in T-307 before the deadline.
    You can hand-write or computer-print the sheet.

    If you handed in the crib sheet on time, and it has your name in the
    top left hand corner, you will get this piece of paper back a few
    minutes before your exam begins.  This one sheet and a calculator
    are the only aids you are permitted.

    Crib sheets that are two-sided, have no name in the top left corner,
    or are submitted late will be discarded.  Be accurate; be punctual.

    Your one-sided crib sheet must be no bigger than 8 1/2 by 11 inches
    (or metric A4).  You can put *anything* from this term's notes on
    this sheet (one side only); but, you must do the work to put it there.

    Crib sheets containing JCL that is not from this term's online notes
    (e.g. last term's midterm or final exam questions) will be discarded.
    Crib sheets that are copies of each other will be discarded.

    Magnifying glasses are permitted.

You will use your Knoppix CD to connect to a Linux Test machine to write
your JCL.  (You must bring to the exam the Knoppix CD you were given
at the start of term!)  No access is permitted to any other machines.
No web browsing is allowed.  Attempts to access other machines will result
in academic fraud charges.  The only aids allowed are a calculator and
crib sheet.

What you must bring to the exam:

 1. You will need the Knoppix CDROM you were given at term start.
    You must know how to boot Knoppix and use "ssh" to connect to
    another Linux machine (e.g. to the Course Linux Server).
    You must be able to use the VI text editor to write JCL.

 2. You will need a pencil to write in answers to multiple-choice questions.

 3. A calculator is permitted, but is not required.
    (Knoppix/Linux already has a desktop calculator in it!)

Multiple-choice answers will be written down (in soft pencil only)
on mark sense forms.

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End of Term - move your files by May 2
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    Please transfer any files and scripts that you want to keep, off
    of the IDAllen Course Linux machine by May 2.  All your files will
    be permanently erased from the Linux machine on May 2 (unless you
    request otherwise).

    The Linux Machine will become unavailable to everyone after May 2.
    After that time, you will no longer have any access to the machine or
    to your files.  (Your ACADUNIX account will continue to be available
    until ITS decides to close it.)