Optional Waiver Test

Optional Waiver Test For IS112 Data Management 

Who will take the test

• Open to School of Computing and Information Systems (SCIS) Freshmen of 2025 with prior Programming background, taking the Information Systems, Computer Science, Computing & Law or the Software Engineering programme.
• Open to non-School of Computing and Information Systems Freshmen of 2025 with prior Programming background, who has the intention to take a second major with SCIS.

Please register by Wednesday, 24 September 2025. 

Register now

Please use your SMU email (e.g., john.smith.2025@smu.edu.sg) to log into Google first in order to access the form. To do so, on Google’s login page, enter your SMU email (NOT SCIS email) without your password. You’ll then be re-directed to an SMU login page where you’ll be asked to enter your SMU email ID and password for authentication. Once this is done, you can access the form above.

Format

Closed-book written test

Content

1. Database Design: ER modelling (week1.ppt, week2.ppt, week3.ppt), Logical Design (week4.ppt), Data Normalization (week5.ppt)
2. Database Implementation: SQL (week6.ppt, week7.ppt, and week9.ppt) 
3. Management of Unstructured Data: Vector Space Model and Cosine Similarity Search (week12.ppt)
4. Physical storage and indexing (week11.ppt)

For Slides and Software Installation Guide, please visit:
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Note: In order to pass the waiver test, a student has to score at least 70%.

Enquiries

For queries, email to School of Computing and Information Systems at: scis_ugrad@smu.edu.sg