Online Blackboard tests
Distance Learning (DIL) students must complete their online Blackboard tests in an ACC Academic Testing Center unless prior arrangements for remote testing have been made. This course does not allow for testing using Respondus Monitor but it does allow for remote testing.
If you are required to take your tests in an ACC Academic Testing Center, it is your responsibility to make all necessary arrangements with the testing center to complete the tests, including accessibility, hours of operation, etc. It is also your responsibility to comply with the Testing Center Guidelines.
Students enrolled in a classroom section must complete the online Blackboard tests during a regularly scheduled class or lab period AND must request to take the test during the first five minutes of the class or lab period.
In most cases, the test will expire and disappear from Blackboard when the submission deadline passes. Once the test expires, you can no longer take it.
You may take Test01 and Test02 up to two times each before the submission deadline. Your highest score among the two scores for each test will be used to compute your final grade. However, you may take Test03 only once.
Test contents
Test questions are generally of a multiple-choice and True/False variety. They are drawn from various sections of my online EBook titled INEW2338 - Advanced Java Programming as shown below.
Test01
- Network Programming
Test02
- Search Engines OR Servlets OR JSON
Test03
- Frameworks
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Note: Only one of the topics Search Engines, Servlets, or JSON is covered in the course in any particular semester. The course material in the Blackboard course management program will indicate which topic is covered in the current semester and that is the one that you should concentrate on insofar as Test02 is concerned. However, students are encouraged to study all three topics for their own educational purposes in order to enhance their prospects of landing a job as a Java programmer. |
Study for the tests
Some students do well on the tests. Many students do poorly on the tests. Therefore, you are encouraged to carefully study the material in the appropriate section identified above prior to taking each test.
Note that some of the material in the above list contains links to other material at cnx.org or elsewhere on the web. That other material is also included in the recommended study material for the tests.
If you do poorly on Test01 or Test02, you should study some more and take the test again for your second and final attempt.
Pay particular attention to the review questions, answers, and explanations scattered throughout the documents in the above list. Many (but not all) of the test questions are taken from the questions in those documents. If you understand the correct answers to those questions and can reflect that knowledge under test conditions, you should do well on the tests. If you don't understand those answers, you will simply be guessing and may do poorly on the tests.
Feedback on the tests
Different students will be taking the tests at different times during the semester and each student is allowed to take Test01 and Test02 up to two times. Therefore, in order to maintain the integrity of the tests, I cannot review your answers with you after you take a test.
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