> Your ability to synthesize knowledge out of thin air. The skill the class is teaching is the ad hoc synthesis of knowledge from other building blocks. That k

> Your ability to synthesize knowledge out of thin air. The skill the class is teaching is the ad hoc synthesis of knowledge from other building blocks. That kind of reasoning is most of the purpose of the class; the concepts they teach you are in some sense just a foil for teaching this. The derivation from the concepts you were explicitly taught is pretty trivial and you've had many opportunities to practice. This is common for any kind of systems-y domain. These types of questions were standard on my (physical) engineering exams.