Final Exam Review

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Topics Covered:

Exam Policies and Rules
Exam Format
Summary of Topics
Practice Questions

Exam Policies and Rules

Make sure you've read over and understand the Assignment and Exam Policies for this course.

The exam is part closed-book quiz and part practical. You will need your computer with all the required software and the ability to connect to the internet and SLATE, and the ability to run Respondus. It is your responsibility to make sure you have these things before the exam begins. Accommodation will not be made at the last minute.
The first 30 minutes will be for completing the closed-book portion of the exam. This portion will be short-answer knowledge/understanding questions e.g. multiple-choice and short-answer, along with at least one explain/describe question.
The practical portion is 2 hours and is "open book" - you may use your notes, sample programs you've written, my web notes, any resources I've linked to, and other course resources. You may not copy code from the Internet that isn't yours. You will be creating a small application using the skills and knowledge you've gained from doing the practice exercises and graded exercises.
No other paper, notes, or books (except those mentioned above), nor any calculators or other devices are allowed on the desk during the exam (this includes phones).
All phones/devices must be turned off during the exam (not just silenced or on vibrate: they must be OFF). You may not answer your phone or use any electronic device during the exam except your computer.
You are not permitted to discuss the exam with anyone else while you are writing it. You are not permitted to ask another person for help/advice/etc.
You are not permitted to communicate with any other person during this exam except your professor during this exam. This includes but is not limited to chat communication, voice communication, and forum or discussion board postings.
You may not share/post or otherwise make public or give to anyone else your exam answers during or after the exam. This would constitute a breach of academic integrity on your permanent record and will be dealt with accordingly.
If you are late for the exam, you will not be given extra time. If you miss the entry window to the closed-book portion, you will not be permitted to complete the closed-book portion of the exam. (NOTE that in this case, you must notify me so that I can open the practical portion of the exam.)
There are no make-up exams.
Failure to follow any instructions given by your professor will result in a grade of 0 on the entire exam.

Important!

If you lose your internet connection you must notify me IMMEDIATELY (e.g. using your phone's carrier network if you're doing a virtual exam).

Plan ahead!! Make sure you don't sleep in, as that is not a valid reason for missing a test. For in-person exams, make sure you leave for school earlier than normal in case you encounter transportation problems on the way (i.e traffic jam, broken-down bus, etc). If you drive, make sure you have a bus schedule - if your car won't work when you leave for school, you'll have the time and resources to take the bus, instead.

Exam Format

For the closed-book quiz portion of the exam, you will have a series of short-answer questions that test your knowledge and understanding of the skills and concepts you've learned from doing the hands-on exercises and demonstrations.

For ONLINE EXAMS using Respondus Monitor: Follow all on-screen instructions. Make sure your ID is clearly visible when asked to show it. Make sure when you do the ENVIRONMENT CHECK that you show your desk and area, otherwise you will receive a grade of 0.
The closed-book portion of the exam will start 5 minutes after the lesson's start time (5 minutes after the hour).
The entry window for this portion is 5 minutes: if you do not enter within 5 minutes, you will not be allowed to enter the exam. We have a strict timeline to follow.
You have 30 minutes to complete the closed-book portion of the exam.
All closed-book exams must be submitted before the practical portion begins.
For IN-PERSON EXAMS only, there will be a short break before the practical.

For the practical, you will asked to write a complete Java web application, which may include the creation of HTML forms, POJO/JavaBeans, in-memory or persistent database access, sessions, security and login functionality, web services, and thymeleaf fragments.

Important!
You will be required to fully document your code in your own words to explain WHAT it does. Code that is not adequately documented will not be graded.

You will have the remainder of the scheduled class time minus 10 minutes to complete (e.g. if your class ends at 3pm, you have until 2:50pm).
Once you have completed the practical, you will upload your application to an assignment drop box as a zipped Eclipse project and also as a text (.txt) file that contains all of your code (the text file is to verify the originality of your work with TurnItIn).
The drop box will close at exactly 10 minutes before the end of class. If you miss this deadline, you will receive a 0 on your exam.

Note
Just because the practical is open-book, does not mean you will have time to look up everything. You will be very busy trying to get the application running and fully documented (see important note below) in the time allotted.

Important!
You are expected to be comfortable looking up new methods and classes in the documentation and learning how to use them. Therefore, you will be required to do some things you haven't seen in the notes/videos/demos. Bookmark all the documentation you've been given (e.g. spring docs, lombok docs, thymeleaf docs, etc) so you can quickly look up what you need to.

Important!
You will be required to fully document your code in your own words to explain WHAT it does. Code that is not adequately documented will not be graded.

Tips:

Re-watch the videos:
- Write down on paper anything you think you won't remember how to do.
- Make a text file of URLS with time stamps of the parts of videos you think you might need to view during the exam (go to the point in the video you want to remember and click the SHARE button, then check the "Start at" box, then copy the URL and paste it into your note file.
Review the web notes
- Write down anything you think you won't remember during the exam.
- Write down the exact locations of anything you think you might want to refer to during the exam.
- Summarize any lists of things and descriptions e.g. security components, why we use web services, in-memory vs. persistent storage, or whatever.
- Redo all the exercises. If you get bored, make up new ones using the existing ones: different data, different inputs, different ideas: think of what a client might want and try to do it.

Summary of Topics

Important!
Even though the focus is on the new material, you will still be expected to know the material from the first half of the course. For example, you might have to use Thymeleaf, in-memory database access, etc.

Sessions

Creating sessions, storing/accessing session data.

JUnit

Writing JUnit tests to test controller methods and database access methods.

Web App Security

Why? Components of app security (authentication, authorization, data integrity, confidentiality)
How the authentication process works in a Java web application.
Terms: security realm, role, user
Implementing basic authentication, authentication with forms (log in, log out)
Security via database, user registration, etc.
Security configuration - authentication, authorization, etc; handling login or authorization errors.
Secure HTTP - terminology and concepts, self-signed certificate and keystore, application properties, etc.

Web Services

ReSTful web services - define, why?
Creating and consuming web services - Postman, coding in the application, etc
Ajax and JSON

Thymeleaf Fragments

Creating and referencing fragments, creating/using them efficiently, passing arguments, etc.

Database

Persistent storage vs. in-memory storage
Persistent storage using MySQL

Practice

Make sure you've done all of the practice exercises in each lesson.

If you need more practice, work on the other sample applications like Books, Teams/Players, Inventory, etc.

Also, consider creating an application from the start, because you know that any practical exam is going to involve creating an application from the very beginning. Create an application where the user has to log in, add/edit/delete records of some kind, and use a ReST controller as the application's service layer. That should give you practice with a little bit of everything, and can act as a working template from which you can build the application in the exam.