==================================== What to Study for the MVS Final Exam ==================================== -IAN! idallen@ncf.ca The MVS Final Exam takes place in the exam week at the end of the course. Consult the department for the exact date. You must prepare and hand in your "crib sheet" the day before the test (see below). The exam is 110 minutes long. (You have 10 minutes to get Floppix up and running before the exam starts.) The exam contains a JCL problem similar to the JCL Example files and homework we have been doing all term, and it contains some multiple-choice questions. The final exam is worth 30% of your term 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 MVSweekly.txt file. You must code syntactically correct JCL - see file studyGuide.txt The MVS exam is closed-book and closed-notes. You will be placed on the Linux test machine with nothing available but the VI editor and an empty directory. (Your home directory files will be permanently removed two hours before the exam begins.) You may not use ftp or telnet to connect to 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. CRIB SHEET You are allowed to make one one-sided "crib sheet" for use in the exam. Put your name and lab section number on the sheet in easy-to-read letters in the top left hand corner of the paper. The sheet must be handed in on real paper to your instructor at least *24 hours before* your scheduled exam start time. If you can't hand the paper to me in person, put it under my office door before the deadline. Electronic copies are not accepted. If you handed in the crib sheet on time, and it has your name and lab section number in the top left hand corner, you will get this piece of paper back a few minutes before your exam begins. It is the only aid you are permitted. Crib sheets that are two-sided, have no name or section number in the top left corner, or are submitted after the 24-hour deadline 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 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 (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 Floppix (not Windows) to connect to the Linux Test machine to write your JCL. No access is permitted to any other machines. What you must bring to the exam: 1. You will need your Floppix diskettes (and your backup copies). You must know how to boot Floppix with DHCP enabled. 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. Multiple-choice answers will be written down (in pencil only) on mark sense forms. Please transfer your personal files and scripts (if any) off of the Linux test machine the day before the start of the exam. All your files will be permanently erased from the test machine on the morning of the final exam. The Linux Machine will be unavailable to everyone except people taking the exam, the day before the exam starts. After the exam, you will no longer have any access to the machine or to your files.