BSc: Advanced Databases

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Advanced Databases

  • Course name: Advanced Databases
  • Code discipline: XYZ
  • Subject area: xxx

Short Description

This course covers the following concepts: DevOps Engineering concepts:.

Prerequisites

Prerequisite subjects

Prerequisite topics

Course Topics

Course Sections and Topics
Section Topics within the section
Introduction to subject, computer networks basics, transport layer protocols, and socket programming
  1. General introduction to the course
  2. Computer networks basic
  3. Socket programming
  4. UDP socket programming
  5. TCP socket programming
Coordination, consistency, and replication in distributed systems
Fault tolerance and security in distributed systems

Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs)

What is the main purpose of this course?

Advanced Databases have become

ILOs defined at three levels

Level 1: What concepts should a student know/remember/explain?

By the end of the course, the students should be able to ...


Level 2: What basic practical skills should a student be able to perform?

By the end of the course, the students should be able to ...


Level 3: What complex comprehensive skills should a student be able to apply in real-life scenarios?

By the end of the course, the students should be able to ...

Grading

Course grading range

Grade Range Description of performance
A. Excellent 90-100 -
B. Good 75-89 -
C. Satisfactory 60-74 -
D. Poor 0-59 -

Course activities and grading breakdown

Activity Type Percentage of the overall course grade
Laboratory assignments 55%
Final exam 35%
Attendance 10%

Recommendations for students on how to succeed in the course

Resources, literature and reference materials

Open access resources

  • Textbook:. Available online:
  • Reference:. Available online:
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Closed access resources

Software and tools used within the course

Teaching Methodology: Methods, techniques, & activities

Activities and Teaching Methods

Activities within each section
Learning Activities Section 1 Section 2 Section 3 Section 4
Development of individual parts of software product code 1 1 1 1
Homework and group projects 1 1 1 1
Testing (written or computer based) 1 1 1 1
Oral polls 1 1 1 1
Discussions 1 1 1 1

Formative Assessment and Course Activities

Ongoing performance assessment

Section 1

Activity Type Content Is Graded?
Question ? 1
Question . 1
Question ? 1
Question ? 1
Question ? 1
Question ? 1
Question ? 1

Section 2

Activity Type Content Is Graded?
Question You have a list of large numbers, and you need to find if they are prime or not. Would you use multithreading, multiprocessing, or sequential programming in order to complete the task asap? Prove it in practice. 0
Question You need to send multiple requests to a server and receive responses. Assume there is a few msecs of delay before you receive the response from the server. Would you use multithreading, multiprocessing, or sequential programming in order to complete the task asap? Prove it in practice. (Order of the requests/responses doesn't matter) 0
Question Discuss two ways of creating the threads using threading module in Python: 1) passing the worker function as a target, 2) subclassing the Thread class 0
Question Given the function implemented locally, make it available to be called through RPC from remote process? Use xmlRPC. 0

Section 3

Activity Type Content Is Graded?
Question ? 1
Question ? 1
Question ? 1
Question ? 1
Question ? 1

Section 4

Activity Type Content Is Graded?
Question Same as above 0

Final assessment

Section 1

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Section 2

Section 3

Section 4

  1. Same as above

The retake exam

Section 1

Section 2

Section 3

Section 4