6.02 Spring 2012: Past Quizzes and Quiz Practice Problems

The following practice problems and quizzes from past semesters should be helpful in gelling the concepts taught in the lectures, recitations, and 6.02 chapters. They will be useful preparation for the problem sets and quizzes. Please note that the organization of this term's course and some of the materials are different from previous terms, so the past quizzes do not map one-to-one to this semester's organization, and may include items not taught this semester. Also, since this course (like most good courses) evolves, it is likely that this semester emphasizes some topics differently, and includes some new topics.

In addition to these review/practice problems, it is important to solve the problems in the problem sets assigned through the term, as well as those at the end of the chapters in the readings (for those lectures that have assigned readings).

Part 3 (Packets): Practice Problems

Please also check out and solve the problems at the end of the book chapters.

Part 3 (Packets): Practice Problems

• Online practice problems on MAC protocols
• Online practice problems on packet and circuit switching, and Little's law
• Routing and the network layer
• Reliable data transport protocols

  For Quiz 3: Past Quizzes

  • Fall 2011. Solutions (Read the solutions after you've worked on the quiz) [Balakrishnan]
  • Spring 2011 Quiz 3. Solutions: Problems 2, 3, 4 and Problem 4 from Quiz 2. [Terman]
  • Spring 2010 Quiz 3: Sections I-IV. Solutions [Balakrishnan]
  • Fall 2010 Quiz 3: All except Sections IV, V, and X. Solutions [Balakrishnan]
    Note that in Fall 2010 more material was in Quiz 3, and it was 3 hours long. This term, Quiz 3 covers less material and is 2 hours long.
  • Fall 2009 Quiz 3: Sections I-III. Solutions [Balakrishnan]
  • Spring 2009 Quiz 3: Problems 1–3, 5, 9–20. Solutions [Balakrishnan]
    

  • For Quiz 2 mulligan: Spring 2012 Quiz 2 (without solutions for practice)

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Part 2 (Signals): Practice Problems

Please also check out and solve the problems at the end of the book chapters.

• Modulation & Demodulation
• Discrete-Time Fourier Series (DTFS)
• Frequency Response of LTI Systems (also solve the problems at the end of Chapter 12)
• LTI Systems and Convolution
• Signaling
• Noise

  For Quiz 2: Past Quizzes

  • Fall 2011 Quiz 2 (all questions) | with solutions.
  • Fall 2011 Quiz 1 (Probem 7 in §II and all of §III) | solutions to §III (noise).
  • Spring 2011 Quiz 2: Problems 1 and 5 | with solutions.
  • Spring 2011 Quiz 3: Problem 1 | with solutions.
  • Spring 2011 Quiz 1: Problem 3 (parts A thru F) | with solutions.
  • Fall 2010 Quiz 3: Parts IV and V (solutions? see Ch. 13 solutions and PS 6 solutions.
  • Fall 2010 Quiz 2: Part VI only.
  • Spring 2010 Quiz 2: Problems 1 and 4.
  • Fall 2009 Quiz 2 | Solutions: Problems 4, 5, and 6.
  • Fall 2009 Quiz 1: Problems 1, 2A, 3.

Part 1 (Bits): Practice Problems

Some online practice problems (most of these overlap with those at the end of the book chapters).

• Information, Entropy, and Source Coding
• Error Correction Codes
• Solutions to book chapters 5 and 8

  For Quiz 1: Past Quizzes

  • Fall 2011 Quiz 1 (without solutions)
  • Spring 2011 Quiz 1: Problems 1 and 2. Without solutions
  • Spring 2011 Quiz 2: Problems 2 and 3. Without solutions
  • Fall 2010 Quiz 2: only the relevant problems are shown w/ solutions. Without solutions
  • Spring 2010 Quiz 2: Problems 2 and 3.