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Fall 2004 Database and Information Systems Qualifying Exam Format

The DAIS written qual will last 3 hours. Each student will be required to answer six questions (if you answer more than six questions, the committee will randomly select six to grade). Out of the six questions answered, at least two must be from the area of Database Systems. The remaining questions will be examinee's choice.

The distribution of the questions by areas is as follows.
  1. Database Systems: 5 questions
  2. Data Mining: 3 questions
  3. Information Retrieval: 3 questions

For each question, there will three subquestions. The first is to test the basic knowledge related to a topic, the second is to test current research related to the topic, and the third is to test examinee's research capability.

DAIS - Database and Information Systems Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 201 N. Goodwin Ave., Urbana, IL 61801, USA.  Fax: 217-265-6494, Phone: 217-244-6241.