Quiz 2 is at 2:00 on Friday, April 15, 2005. The quiz will cover all the material from lecture 9 (Mar 2) through recitation 15 (Mar 31). The quiz will be "open book." That means you can bring along any printed or written materials that you think might be useful. Calculators are allowed, though not necessary; cell phones, laptops, and PDAs are off limits. 6.033 quizzes typically begin with half a dozen or so independent questions that focus on material in the readings followed by one or two longer, multi-part questions that deal with concepts of computer systems covered in the notes and lecture. The quiz will be, at least in part, multiple choice.

Warning: the lectures touch on only a subset of the totality of 6.033 concepts. Anything in the class notes and readings assigned between LEC9 and REC15 may show up on the quiz.

The quiz will be held in the Walker Memorial Gym (50-340).

You can find old quiz questions to practice on in the Problems and Solutions in Chapter 14 of the class notes. Be sure to check out both the independent problems and the problem sets that pertain to the current topics. Note that each problem in that section is followed by a code that tells what year it was given and which quiz it appeared on. Although there has been a little rearrangement of material over the years, you should be able to answer most questions relevant to the subjects we have covered.

It may also be helpful to look at old quizzes. Several from previous years include 2004 (solutions), 2003 (solutions), 2002 (solutions), and 2001 (solutions).

There will be a quiz review from 7:00 to 9:00 PM, Wednesday, April 13 in room 2-190.

The quiz date and time was announced at the beginning of the term, so you should not have problems with scheduling conflicts. If, nevertheless, you have managed to create a conflict, contact Prof. Balakrishnan () as soon as possible to resolve the problem.