BUSN 5000E
Exam Guide

Introduction to Data Science for Business & Economics

Author

Chris Cornwell

Published

May 28, 2026

Mark your calendars

This Exam Guide is the one-stop shop for exam facts and protocol. Read it very carefully and do what it says. If you are unable to take the exam during the scheduled time, you should drop the course.

Important

The exam window: 600a–800p EDT on Fri, Jul 31.

Pay attention to the time zone: If you are traveling outside the EDT zone on Jul 31, make sure you do your time-zone arithmetic correctly. There will be no sympathy for timing errors.

Start early enough: Once you begin the exam, you will have 150 minutes to complete and submit it. To have the full 150 minutes, you will need to start the exam by 530p EDT.

Take the practice quiz first: The deadline for completing the practice quiz is Tue, Jul 28 at 1159p EDT.

Before exam day

You must complete the required practice quiz to ensure you are set up correctly with Respondus Lockdown Browser and Respondus Monitor. Failure to do so by the deadline will forfeit your opportunity to take the final exam.

Confirm your computer/phone/internet configuration meets the requirements.

  • Computer. Windows 10/11 or macOS 11+ laptop or desktop with a working webcam and microphone. Chromebooks, iPads, and Linux are not supported by Respondus.

  • Phone. A smartphone (iOS 14+ or Android 9+) that can scan QR codes and run the Respondus second-camera page. Prop it in a stand showing a clear side view of your desk, hands, and laptop screen for the full 150 minutes. Plug it in or start fully charged. Notifications are fine; do not open them.

  • Internet. A consistent, stable connection. Wired ethernet is ideal; reliable home Wi-Fi is fine. Avoid public Wi-Fi and shared apartment networks. If you don’t have a connection you trust, email Abbi at least one week before exam day.

Install the lockdown browser, run the second camera test, and take the practice quiz.

  1. Install Respondus LockDown Browser. Open the practice quiz in eLC, look under Quiz Requirements for the LockDown Browser notice, click the download button, install it, then return to the quiz page in eLC and select Launch LockDown Browser. See UGA’s “How to” guide for eLC quizzes and Respondus’s video tutorial for its lockdown browser.

    You only install once — after that it launches automatically whenever a quiz requires it.

  2. Scan with your phone
    Respondus 2nd-camera test

    Check your phone. Scan the QR code with the phone you plan to use on exam day. It launches Respondus’s second-camera test so you can confirm your phone works with the system. The direct link is respondus.com/camera2.

  3. Run the LockDown Browser self-checks. Inside LockDown Browser, open Help Center and run System & Network Check and Webcam Check. If your computer, WiFi, or location changes between now and exam day, run the checks again from the new setup.

  4. Complete the required practice quiz. A short ungraded practice quiz opens in eLC on Tue, Jul 21. You must complete it by Tue, Jul 28. It walks you through every Respondus step so any device-compatibility issue surfaces in time to fix it. Students who haven’t completed it by the deadline will forfeit the opportunity to take the exam.

On exam day

On exam day, you must follow the exam protocol to a “T”.

Important

You must:

  1. Take the exam alone in a private room with the door closed.
  2. Clear other devices, including tablets, other computers, smart watches, smart glasses, and smart speakers, from your desk. They must be powered off and placed outside your reach.
  3. Conduct a room scan using the Respondus Monitor webcam function to show your workspace is clear and that no one else is present.

Webcam tips. Take the exam in a well-lit room, but avoid backlighting (don’t sit with a window behind you). No baseball caps or hats with brims. If you’re using a built-in webcam, don’t readjust the tilt of the screen after webcam setup is complete.

Materials allowed. Only laptop, your phone (as second camera), and a non-programmable calculator. No other materials are allowed. Consulting other materials or any person during the exam is a violation of UGA’s Academic Honesty Policy.

Exam preparation

The exam structure mimics the course organization so its coverage follows the order of the course materials. This is reflected in the question labeling scheme: question number, course Part, question type. For example “Q1 Part I-A: Conceptual” indicates that Question 1 comes from Part I of the course and the question type is “conceptual” like in section A of the homework assignments. Questions come in one of three types: multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank, and short answer.

You have 150 minutes to complete it, consistent with the time allocations for BUSN 5000 exams during the academic year.

Exam questions are drawn from the homework and project, so I would focus most of my effort on reviewing those materials – not to memorize the answers mind you, but to understand more deeply what you did in those assignments. Can you replicate your work without a net? Can you explain the key concepts and findings in your own words? Can you apply the concepts to new questions? These are the skills the exam tests, and they are the skills you should practice.

For the homework assignments, I recommend clearing the answers, and then working through them without your notes and on a clock. For the project, I recommend something similar: try to explain each artifact without consulting your notes or your complete slide deck. From both sources you will be shown tables and figures you produced when completing them and asked to explain your findings.

There is no coding per se on the exam, but you should be able to explain the basic dplyr verbs and translate basic regression code.

Getting help

For technical issues, use the Help Center button on the LockDown Browser toolbar — it includes 24/7/365 live chat support and a built-in troubleshooter. The Respondus knowledge base is at support.respondus.com (select “LockDown Browser & Respondus Monitor”). For exam-specific questions, email Abbi at abigail.cormier@uga.edu.