CSE 2221 Placement Test

CSE2221 covers “intellectual foundations of software engineering; design-by-contract principles; mathematical modeling of software functionality; component-based software from client perspective; layered data representation.” The CSE2221 Placement Exam is designed to assess a student’s readiness for these topics using brief hand-written programs or program segments. This is a placement exam; no credit is awarded. Find complete details about the placement exam on the Department of Computer Science and Engineering’s website.

Special Note:

Satisfactory performance on the placement exam for CSE 2221 fulfills the prerequisite requirements for CSE 2221. Satisfactory performance on the placement exam for CSE 2221 does not result in academic credit for CSE 1223.  

Placement Test Topics:

• Variables, types, expressions, and assignment statements
• Fundamental or built-in types for working with integer-, real-, Boolean-, character-, and text-valued data
• Simple input from a keyboard or a file, and simple output to a monitor or a file
• Conditional control structures such as “if” and “if-else”
• Iterative control structures such as “while”