Spring 2007 Database and Information Systems
Qualifying Examination
The DAIS qual exam consists of two parts: written exam for 80%
and oral exam for 20%. The scores will be combined as the total
score.
1. Written Exam:
The written qual is a 3-hour exam. Each student will be required to
answer five questions out of 12. If an examinee answers 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: 3 questions
2. Data Mining: 3 questions
3. Information Retrieval: 3 questions
4. Bioinformatics: 3 questions
For each question, there will be 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 the four subareas of the exam, and the examinee must
to answer 9 out of the 12 subparts of this question.
2. Oral Exam:
After the written exam, each examinee will be scheduled to hold a
15-minute one-on-one meeting with three faculty members. Each of
these meetings will be a conversation on a simple technical topic to
assess the student's ability to understand and speak English at a
high level of proficiency.
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