Exam

Final exam

The course content will be tested in the form of a computer exam, taken on campus (3 hours).

Date & time

Main sit

  • On campus, 3 hours: tba
  • Exam registration: via Osiris

Resit

  • On campus, 3 hours: tba
  • Exam registration: via Osiris

Technicalities & support

  • Receiving your exam: via TestVision on the examination dates.
  • Working on your exam: on a computer at the University.
  • Submitting your exam: all questions (including file uploads) will be submitted via TestVision

Form

  • On-campus exam (closed book except selected course material that students can download on the instruction page of the exam, as well as question-specific downloads such as code or datasets for some questions)
  • Several sections with subquestions (some open questions: both in written, or by means of code/file uploads; also closed questions, such as multiple choice, or ranking questions)
  • Communication with anybody about the exam content is strictly prohibited.
  • You will be able to download “cheatsheets” from the exam’s introduction page.
  • The exam makes use of the “open book” workspace. This means that technically, you are able to access the internet. However, it is strictly forbidden to use any other material accessible on the internet, other than described on the exam’s cover page (which covers all the software used in class such as VS Code, Python, Anaconda, Jupyter Notebook, as well as Chrome, Edge and Firefox).
  • The use of any other website/tool, including AI tools such as ChatGPT, OpenAI APIs, Bing Chat, Copilot, etc. is strictly forbidden.
  • Students must not mention their names or student numbers in any of the submitted files, except when being explicitly asked to do so. This is to ensure the exam can be graded anonymously.

Content

  • The exam consists of open and closed (multiple-choice, ranking, matching) questions, structured along the learning goals of this course, and shown in random order.
  • Cognitive skills that will be tested are knowledge, comprehension, analysis, application, synthesis and evaluation.
  • You can expect to work three hours on the exam.
  • Expect coding questions using Jupyter Notebook
    • Large(r) coding task (e.g., scrape data from a website or retrieve data from API)
    • Small(er) coding task (e.g., parsing, fixing errors, running existing code)
    • Essay questions with indicated word limits to form a judgment (e.g., recommend website or API for a particular business problem, evaluate terms & conditions, sample size calculations)
  • All tutorials - but not advanced web scraping and APIs - are relevant for these questions.

Preparing for the exam

Work on the example questions

Please view the list of example questions here.

Make your own example questions

  • We encourage you to generate your own example questions. Just start from a combination of learning goals (e.g., learn how to scrape, “web scraping 101”) and cognitive skill levels (e.g., “evaluation”). Combining these two dimensions will help you come up with a creative way of asking a good example question.
  • See this summary of Bloom’s Taxonomy, which we also use to generate exam questions.
  • Curious whether your question is “good” - send it to us via the usual ways - maybe it will even be part of the exam? ;)

Familiarize yourself with TestVision

Technical tips & beyond

  • Verify that you are familiar with the on-campus computers so that you know how to use them (e.g., Windows, how to open Jupyter Notebook, how to navigate on the command prompt, etc.)
  • Know how to zip and unzip files
  • Make use of cheat sheets (e.g., available on this site or elsewhere) (you can also print them)
  • Revise your code before submission so that you ensure it runs from top to bottom without problems.
  • The inspect mode in Chrome and Edge is blocked. However, you can install Firefox on the computers and access the inspect mode there.