Jian said:
This subject is the same as 31516 Networking Fundamentals. In the subject outline, It says that there will be some essay questions in the final written exam. Could anyone who did this exam before tell me what kind of essay questions were? eg. What is TCP/IP and how they work? Thanks.
I did this subject last semester and I wouldn't really say they were essay questions (however, have they changed it again this semester? I don't know). More short-answer than anything. I only used one 8 page booklet for the whole exam (although my writing is smaller, or rather my spacing between words is less than the average person) and I covered just about everything the questions wanted.
You get asked questions like compare 2 things (e.g. infrared against something else) or what are the advantages of coaxial and fibre optics etc. They also ask you questions like how TCP/IP works. There will be one chunk of subnetting questions (free marks I reckon) worth about 20-25% of the entire paper or so. Basically the exam has questions, which have sub-questions. So again, more short-answers/short paragraph answers.
Note: Towards the last few weeks of the semester, things may get really hard to understand and grasp (although some of the earlier things are quite hard too). I was stressing over those sections however, basically none of it turned up in the exam. Though please don't take this religiously, I don't know if they will decide to magically change it this time around.