Exams #

This is the exams info page for NC State’s Network Security (CSC 474) course.

This course includes up to three in-person paper exams to evaluate acquired content knowledge: exams 1 and 2 (“midterms”) and a final exam. The exams contribute 45% of the evaluation component in the following way:

  • 15% Midterm 1
  • 15% Midterm 2
  • 15% Final or average of Midterm 1 and Midterm 2

Optional Final Exam: Students who are happy with the average of their Exam 1 and Exam 2 grades may request to use that average in place of taking the final exam.

  • Students must explicitly inform the instructor of this choice (form announced / provided here closer to final exam)
  • Simply missing the final exam will result in a zero for the final exam.
  • This is not a “2 out of 3” setup, i.e., taking the final exam and getting a lower grade compared to the midterms will lower your overall exam grade component.

General:

  • Exams will be in-person, during specific time slots, on paper, closed-book (so no slide print-outs or open laptops).
  • The 2 Homeworks are intended to prepare you for some of the more complex tasks that might appear in the exams.
  • You will need / should bring a calculator for (some of) the exams.

Dates:

Allowed resources (same for all exams):

  • You may bring handwritten notes, limited to one double-sided letter-sized sheet.
  • You should bring a personal calculator without network or internet access. It will be useful for modular arithmetic (for example, in Diffie-Hellman or RSA problems).