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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:
- Midterm Exam 1 exam1 - Thu, Sep 24 - 4:30pm (during class, ~60 min)
- Midterm Exam 2 exam2 - Thu, Nov 5 - 4:30pm (during class, ~60 min)
- Final Exam final - Tue, Dec 8 - 12:00pm (university assigned, ~ 60 min)
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).