1. Final Review
CSE487
B.Ramamurthy
7/30/2018
B.Ramamurthy

2. Place and Time Date: 12/14/2010, Time: 3.30-5.30PM (2 hour exam)
Place: Park 440
Please bring
Pencils, pens and erasers.
4 pages of any information you like
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3. 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 MapReduce
Data-intensive approaches to (IR), DM and ML.
Cloud models: Amazon EC2 associated, Windows Azure and Google App Engine
Pig and Hive
Cloud architecture: Reliability, availability, performance, etc.
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B.Ramamurthy

4. Exam Format
4 questions on the topics mentioned in the last slide (80%)
Each question will have subsections
I 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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5. How to study? Class notes Blue book chapters: 2,3 and 4
Intelligent web: chapter on clustering and classification
Your project 2
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6. How to answer the questions?
Use a diagram: preferably a standard UML diagram
Use a list instead of an essay
Do 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 answer
Use pseudo code where necessary
7/30/2018
B.Ramamurthy