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

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

    11:30am Saturday April 26, 2003 (2 hours: finish at 13:30)

You must prepare your one-page "crib sheet" and hand it in to your
instructor by noon on the Friday before the test (April 25: see below).

The exam is online using the VIM editor under Linux.  It is 105 minutes
long.  (You have 10 minutes to get Floppix 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 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 examples and in the MVSweekly.txt file.  You must code
syntactically correct JCL - see file chapter1-4.txt for study notes on
these chapters.

The MVS exam is closed-book and closed-notes.  You are not permitted
access to Web pages.  You will login to a Linux test machine and
will have nothing available but the VI editor and an empty directory.
(Your home directory files will be permanently removed the day before
the exam begins - please copy your files to another machine using FTP
[e.g. to acadunix] if you wish to save them.)

You may not use FTP, telnet, or WWW 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.
    Crib sheets with names in other places will be handed out last.
    If I can't find your name and section number, you won't get the
    sheet returned to you.

    The sheet must be handed in on real paper (no EMail) to your
    instructor by noon on the Friday before the exam - April 25.  If you
    can't hand the paper to me in person, put it under my office door
    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
    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.
    This one sheet and a calculator are the only aids you are permitted.

    Crib sheets that are two-sided, have no name or section number
    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 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 to connect to a Linux Test machine to write your JCL.
No access is permitted to any other machines.  No web browsing is allowed.
Attempts to access other machines will result in academic fraud charges.

What you must bring to the exam:

 1. You will need your two Floppix diskettes.
    (I have a limited number of 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.

 3. A calculator is permitted, but is not required.

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

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    Please transfer any of your personal files and scripts that you want
    to keep off of the IDAllen Linux machine the day before the start of
    the exam.  All your files will be permanently erased from the Linux
    machine on the day of the final exam (unless you request otherwise).

    The Linux Machine will be unavailable to everyone except people taking
    the exam, starting at 9am on the day the exam starts.  After the exam,
    you will no longer have any access to the machine or to your files.