Good morning. I cannot find a Q&A section under final exams (I think it should be added), so I decided to ask here. Question 15: why the last answer ("DATEDIFF(record_label_contract_start_date, record_label_contract_end_date) > 3652;") is wrong? I was undecided between the first one (the correct one) and this one. Aren't them the same thing? Question 29: why the answer "CREATE INDEX i_star ON artists(*);" is wrong? I'd also like to ask if it's normal that I cannot copy and paste pieces of code from the exam into MySQL workbench. I tried to copy some code by hand, but I had to give up because it's an enormous waste of time during the exam. Thank you

I agree with Alessandro when it comes to copying the code. It's not a problem when you show a code with blanks to answer it on the first question. However, using that whole code to run on the next one is very time consuming (I'm referring to Practice Exams). In other courses, they let us download a file that contains the code/data. You can just send a file where its code have blanks in it. With that, we can focus more on the problem, and typing speed wouldn't matter as much. Why is it not implemented here? Please let us take the given time to solve problems, not to write code. Thanks, Carl

Hi Alessandro and Carl, Thank you very much for your feedback. @Alessandro: Thank you very much for your suggestion, as well as mentioning the organisation of the final exam from our part. May I please ask you - while checking your answers (after having submitted the exam), aren't they sufficient in understanding why a given answer has been the correct one to select? Please feel free to revise the relevant lectures from the course on the given topic in the meantime. Thank you! Regarding the copying of the code. After long discussions and testing sessions, we, from the 365 Team, have decided, that the ability to type code correctly is crucial in a professional environment. Yes, it is true that we will often copy and paste code, but this sometimes takes away from our ability to dig deeper into a problem and overlook a potential error. Therefore, we've decided that we want everybody that has completed our course and final exams to be people that are autonomous and independent when typing their own code. In addition, please do consider that the time you've been provided to submit a given exam takes into account the time required to type the code necessary to answer the questions of a given exam. This, of course, has been tested multiple times as well. Hope this helps and looking forward to your answer about 1), Alessandro. Thank you! Kind regards, Martin

Good evening. Honestly, I don't remember anymore very well what were the problem. I have just completed the following course in the meanwhile. But I remember that the explanation to the solution wasn't sufficient to understand why the last answer to question 15 ("DATEDIFF(record_label_contract_start_date, record_label_contract_end_date) > 3652;") is wrong and why the answer "CREATE INDEX i_star ON artists(*);" in question 29 is wrong. Thank you

Hello, I also finished the course, and would have a hard time recalling some details right off the bat. @Martin: I agree that there is no better way to instinctively write correct code than writing code itself. Maybe you can consider extending the time limit for the course exams that involve writing our own code, just to factor in the time consumed in typing.