Schedule
The final exam (2025-2026 academic year, session 1) will take place on Friday January 30, 2026 at 14:00 (duration: 2 hours).
Please check ADE and the administration’s guidelines for the room numbers.
Allowed material
Allowed: one handwritten sheet of paper (A4 format, dual side)
Forbidden: All other documents + All electronic devices (including computers, tablets, calculators, phones, smart watches).
Exam scope
The exam will be made of two parts, with the same weight:
- Part 1 about the courses of Renaud Lachaize
- Part 2 about the courses of Thomas Ropars
Important: Please note that the scope of the exam also includes the topics covered jointly by the two teachers, especially during the lab sessions and the research paper discussions.
Additional details for each part:
Renaud Lachaize:
The exam will potentially cover all the lectures. However, you can skip the following parts, which were not (or only very briefly) covered in class.
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In the lecture on Cloud building blocks, you can skip:
- Lightweight virtual machines and unikernels (slides 33-37)
- Networking (slide 34)
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In the lecture on Cloud native infrastructure - Part 1, you can skip:
- CNCF (slides 29-31)
- Monitoring (slides 39-44)
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In the lecture on Cloud native infrastructure - Part 2, you can skip:
- Microservices and service meshes (slides 5-32). Note however that you must study the lecture on Microservices given by Thomas Ropars.
- Design patterns - Serving patterns (slides 74-81)
- Design patterns - Batch computational patterns (slides 82-98)
- Note however that you must study the part on “Design patterns - Single node” (slides 69-73).
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In the lecture on Cloud storage, you can skip:
- The part on Databases (slides 19-30)
Thomas Ropars:
The exam will cover all the lectures.
Previous years exam
Here is a link to the final exam of last year.
A few important comments:
- The course last year was having a different scope and was including material related to virtualization, that was not presented this year. This part has been removed from the published exam.
- This is why the published part is over 14 points.
- Since the course this year was not including lectures related to virtualization, we had time to cover other topics and/or to dig more into some topics.