This is a sample examination. It includes problems similar to those that have appeared on previous in-class final examinations (and, as you may note, on recent take-home examinations). It also includes the standard examination policies. These problems are not intended to give a comprehensive view of topics. For example, there is likely to be at least one problem on trees. As the sample exam suggests, problems may involve code reading and code analysis in addition to code writing.
Although the sample policies indicate that you may not discuss the actual final exam, you should feel free to discuss this sample final examination with anyone you’d like.
This is a closed book examination. You may not rely on notebooks, papers, textbooks, computers, colleagues, or anything similar. You may, however, refer to one 8.5 x 11 inch, double sided, hand-written, set of notes that you brought to this exam.
This is also a paper examination. Answer all problems in pen or pencil on blank pieces of paper and then staple them together. You may use additional blank pieces of paper as scratch, provided you turn them in at the end of the examination.
You have received a cover sheet for this exam with a number on it. Please write your name on the cover sheet. Please write your number (not your name) on each of the non-scratch pages you turn in.
There are five problems on this exam. They are not necessarily of equal difficulty.
Five correct or mostly correct solutions will earn you an A. Four correct or mostly correct solutions will earn you a B. Three correct or mostly correct solutions will earn you a C. Two correct or mostly correct solution will earn you a D. Fewer than two correct or mostly correct solutions will earn you an F. Failure to attempt the exam will earn you a 0.
Partially correct solutions may or may not earn you a higher grade, at the discretion of the grader.
Many of the problems ask you to write Java code. Although you need not write correct working Java code, your code should be of sufficient quality that the grader can be confident that you would be able to make it work correctly with minimal effort when given access to Eclipse and the Web.
Some problems ask you to build a structure. You will have received a separate sheet of paper that lists the operations used to build the structure. Follow those operations. [On the sample final, everyone gets the same list of instructions.]
Other people may be taking this exam (or a similar exam) at another time. You may not discuss this examination with anyone. [Not applicable for the sample final.]
After you have completed the examination, please write, sign, and date the following statements on the cover sheet:
I have neither received nor given inappropriate assistance on this examination.
I am not aware of any other students who have given or received inappropriate assistance on this examination.
If you do not feel that you can sign either of these statements, please arrange to meet with me as soon as possible.
Please arrange the remaining sheets in order by problem number, make sure you’ve written your number and the page number on the top of each sheet, and then staple them together without the cover sheet.
Please turn in this examination, the cover sheet, the stapled pages, your notes (if used), and your scrap paper.
Topics: iteration, graphs
As you may recall, our Graph structure had the following fields.
/**
* The number of vertices in the graph.
*/
int numVertices;
/**
* The number of edges in the graph.
*/
int numEdges;
/**
* The vertices in the graph. The edges from vertex v are stored in
* vertices[v].
*/
List<Edge>[] vertices;
Write the following method. You must support the next, hasNext,
and remove methods. You need not worry about concurrent modifications.
/**
* Iterate all of the edges in the graph.
*/
Iterator<Edge> edges() {
...
} // Iterator<Edge>
Topics: Testing, ADTs
Suppose our Stack interface is defined as follows.
/**
* Simple stacks.
*/
public interface SimpleStack<T> extends Iterable<T> {
/**
* Look at the top of the stack.
*/
T top();
/**
* Remove the top of the stack.
*/
T pop();
/**
* Add something to the top of the stack.
*/
void push(T val);
/**
* Determine if the stack is empty.
*/
boolean isempty();
/**
* Iterate the values on the stack from top to bottom.
*/
Iterator<T> iterator();
} // interface SimpleStack<T>
Suppose LinkedStack implements Stack. Write a test suite for
LinkedStack. Your test suite should include at least one significant
randomized test.
Topics: Skip lists, randomness, linear structures, drawing structurs
Draw the skip list that results from the following sequence of commands. (We’ll assume that the skip list just stores keys; don’t worry about the values.)
sl.add("Operating Systems");
sl.add("Programming Languages");
sl.add("Architecture");
sl.add("Human-Computer Interation");
sl.add("Functional Problem Solving");
sl.add("Compilers");
sl.add("Imperative Problem Solving");
sl.add("Algorithms and Data Structures");
sl.add("Software Design");
sl.remove("Programming Languages");
sl.remove("Compilers");
sl.add("Programming Language Implementation");
You should assume that the random number generator returns the following sequence of real numbers and that we’ve capped the height of the skip list at 5..
0.42241056493050366
0.22337283903303337
0.623327351327075
0.8503900312076152
0.4727338611447819
0.7884035506257645
0.5429298868238499
0.8109907199829048
0.42706668861905844
0.7845592443338416
0.6686026568220353
0.055770926317282185
0.5845337311232035
0.7816998915731855
0.3802419740451339
0.372601694776945
0.5180750749445557
0.4905191792706003
0.02667823516509331
0.07358676807630057
0.6555943266403909
0.11188593629567763
0.726497756576057
0.1645030105059562
0.9001625653435043
0.5768174605858587
0.3542576950708406
0.902286167180986
0.9653944489085222
0.5805734674817141
Topics: Graphs, drawing structures, graph algorithms
Consider the following graph, given as a series of edges
A B 4
A H 8
B C 8
B H 11
C D 7
C F 4
C I 2
D E 9
D F 14
E F 10
F G 2
G H 1
G I 6
H I 7
a. Draw the graph. You’ll likely find it easiest to draw it in the following shape.
B C D
A I E
H G F
b. Show the MST constructed by Kruskal’s algorithm, numbering the edges in the order they are added. For example, if you add the edge between F and G third, you’d draw something like the following.
B C D
A I E
H G----F
(3)
Topics: Big-O, recurrence relations
a. Compute the fixed form of the following recurrence relation.
T(n) = 2*T(n/2) + 3*n
T(1) = 1
b. Determine a tight Big-O bound for the following loop.
String str = "a";
for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
for (int j = i; j < n; j++) {
str = str + "a";
} // for
} // for
In case you haven’t obserted it already, this exam contains five different kinds of sample problems that suggest possible kinds of problems on the final.
There are, of course, other kinds of problems that I may include. For example, I might choose to have you implement an algorithm similar to ones we have already seen, such as a new sorting algorithm, a related graph algorithm, or perhaps one of the hash table algorithms, such as adding in a probed hash table.
The sample graph was taken from https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/kruskals-minimum-spanning-tree-algorithm-greedy-algo-2/.