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Fall 2005 Database and Information Systems Qualifying Examination

The DAIS written qual will last 3 hours. Each student will be required to answer five questions out of ten. If you answer more than five questions, the committee will randomly select five to grade.

The distribution of the questions by areas is as follows.

  1. Database Systems: 4 questions
  2. Data Mining: 3 questions
  3. Information Retrieval: 3 questions

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

In addition to the five questions of the examinee's choice, each examinee must also answer one required question. The required question will test the examinee's understanding of the basic concepts from all three subareas of the exam. The required question will have many subparts.


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.