11-21-2020, 06:20 PM
Provider:
Study.com
Course:
Computer Science 107: Database Fundamentals
Course content: How is the material presented? Videos? Text? External content? Do you have to buy/have other materials?
12 chapters of content that encompasses anywhere from 3-12 lessons where each lesson is presented in reading (some are text only) and video format. Each lesson had a quiz at the end that asked 5 questions about the lesson. There are 107 quizzes in all. Each chapter also had a practice quiz of about 20-30 questions that was taken from the quiz pool.
Final exam format: How many questions? Multiple choice? Essay? Both? Something else?
100 questions, multiple choice for the final proctored exam which counts towards 1/3rd of the final grade. There is a writing assignment counting for the next 1/3rd that I haven't submitted yet, but it seems straight forward. Quizzes go toward the last 1/3rd of the grade.
Final exam content vs course content/practice exams: Have you seen the information before in the course, or was it a total curve ball?
There were about 10(?) repeated questions from the quizzes and practice test that was in the 100 question final. Even so, the questions were very similarly to the quizzes and the practice tests, so they are worth redoing and studying.
Time taken on course: Hours? Weeks? Days?
I came in with 9 out of 107 quizzes completed prior to starting the course so that helped save a tiny bit of time. I still spent over 10 hours going through the rest of the quizzes, the videos/reading, practice tests, and studying for them. An additional 45 minutes was spent on taking the proctored final itself. I expect the paper will take me about 3 hours to write (to be updated later).
Familiarity with subject before course: Never heard of it before taking the course, Low, medium, high, I do this every day. How would you have scored on the final with no preparation?
High. I currently work as a software developer and have experience working on backend stuff w/ Postgres and MySql. I am pretty certain I would have passed (at least 70%) if I wanted to go into the final exam blind.
Pitfalls, high points, things others should know:
If you are at or close to my level of familiarity, you can get by just doing all the quizzes, the chapter practice tests, and studying those questions and answers and you will pass. I put in a bit more time to make sure I got a decent grade on the final so I don't have to work so hard on the paper (I hate papers).
1-10 Difficulty level:
2-3 Easy. I can see this being challenging for someone new to databases.
Study.com
Course:
Computer Science 107: Database Fundamentals
Course content: How is the material presented? Videos? Text? External content? Do you have to buy/have other materials?
12 chapters of content that encompasses anywhere from 3-12 lessons where each lesson is presented in reading (some are text only) and video format. Each lesson had a quiz at the end that asked 5 questions about the lesson. There are 107 quizzes in all. Each chapter also had a practice quiz of about 20-30 questions that was taken from the quiz pool.
Final exam format: How many questions? Multiple choice? Essay? Both? Something else?
100 questions, multiple choice for the final proctored exam which counts towards 1/3rd of the final grade. There is a writing assignment counting for the next 1/3rd that I haven't submitted yet, but it seems straight forward. Quizzes go toward the last 1/3rd of the grade.
Final exam content vs course content/practice exams: Have you seen the information before in the course, or was it a total curve ball?
There were about 10(?) repeated questions from the quizzes and practice test that was in the 100 question final. Even so, the questions were very similarly to the quizzes and the practice tests, so they are worth redoing and studying.
Time taken on course: Hours? Weeks? Days?
I came in with 9 out of 107 quizzes completed prior to starting the course so that helped save a tiny bit of time. I still spent over 10 hours going through the rest of the quizzes, the videos/reading, practice tests, and studying for them. An additional 45 minutes was spent on taking the proctored final itself. I expect the paper will take me about 3 hours to write (to be updated later).
Familiarity with subject before course: Never heard of it before taking the course, Low, medium, high, I do this every day. How would you have scored on the final with no preparation?
High. I currently work as a software developer and have experience working on backend stuff w/ Postgres and MySql. I am pretty certain I would have passed (at least 70%) if I wanted to go into the final exam blind.
Pitfalls, high points, things others should know:
If you are at or close to my level of familiarity, you can get by just doing all the quizzes, the chapter practice tests, and studying those questions and answers and you will pass. I put in a bit more time to make sure I got a decent grade on the final so I don't have to work so hard on the paper (I hate papers).
1-10 Difficulty level:
2-3 Easy. I can see this being challenging for someone new to databases.
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