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Directions and preparing for Test #3
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-Ian! D. Allen - idallen@idallen.ca

As mentioned on the course home page, your third test is in your lab
period on Tuesday, November 23, 2004.

Bring a soft pencil (and a good eraser) for Part I of the test.

The test is in two parts.

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Part I - (mostly) closed book multiple choice
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The first part of the test is multiple choice questions, filled out on
mark-sense sheets using a soft pencil.  (Bring a good eraser!)  It is
closed book, except that you may have with you a "crib sheet".  A crib
sheet is one single piece of paper (metric A4 or standard Letter size)
filled with anything you want to put there.  You may use both sides.
You may hand write the paper or you may machine print it with tiny
letters - you choose.  You can put text or pictures or programs or
anything you want there.  You can copy the entire course textbook onto
the page, if you can read it.  Magnifying glasses are permitted.

You must prepare your own crib sheet.  You will submit your crib sheet
at the end of the test.  People who have copied crib sheets from other
people will have their marks divided by two.  Prepare your own crib sheet.

Put your name on your crib sheet.

Many sample test questions have been posted to the Notes page:

    Practice Test #3 Questions
       practiceTest3.txt  (text format)
       practiceTest3.ps   (Postscript format)
       practiceTest3.pdf  (Portable Document Format)

    All the files contain the same material in a different randomized order.
    Each file has its own answer key at the end.

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Part II - open book online shell script work
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After you have finished Part I, you may start Part II of the test.
Part II is online and fully open book, open note, open computer.
You will be required to write a working, executable shell script using
the VIM editor and using Unix commands from the list of commands you know
(see the Notes for the list).

See these Notes files for examples of the things you might be asked to do:

  practiceCommands_3.txt   Practice Unix/Linux Questions #3
  labpractice1.txt         Shell programming practice - Weather scripts
  script_practice1.txt     Practice Script #1 Specifications
  CGI_script.txt           Building a CGI Script on Unix
  exercise03.txt           Exercise #3 for DAT2330

The shell "while" loop will not be covered on this test.

This test as a whole is worth 20%.  The Part I multiple-choice questions
[closed book] are worth 10 of the 20%.  The Part II shell script [open
book] is worth 10 of the 20%.

For the shell script section (Part II), the format of the main part of
the shell script you will prepare must look similar to this:

   # Step 1
   date
   echo "hi there"

   # Step 2
   who
   ls -l /etc/passwd

Each step in the script must be preceded by a comment line that starts
with '#' that contains the step number, as you see above.  These are the
only comment lines you need in front of each step.  After each single
comment line come the shell commands that you use to answer the questions
for that step.  You must have comment lines even for steps you leave out.

The script must start with a correct DAT2330 script header that includes
an interpreter line and lines to set the shell search path and the default
permissions for newly created files.  For full marks, follow the full
nine-part format described in Notes file script_style.txt.  (You may
prepare a template for your script ahead of time, before the test begins.)

I will collect your scripts from your home directories at the end of
the test.  Do not delete or modify any files until an hour after the
test ends, so that I can collect all your files safely.

You may find it useful to log in multiple times to the Course Linux
Server during the test, so that you can be doing several things at the
same time in different windows.