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The sums under consideration are of the type \[ \sum_{x=1}^{p^m}e(f(x)/p^m), \quad \sum_{x=1}^{p^m}\chi (g(x))e(f(x)/p^m), \] where \(p^m\) is a prime power, \(f\) and \(g\) are polynomials with integer coefficients, and \(\chi \) is a multiplicative character \((\operatorname {mod}p^m)\). In the words of the authors, their goals are threefold: (i) to point out the similarity between exponential sums over finite fields and those over residue class rings \((\operatorname {mod}p^m)\) with \(m \geq 2\), (ii) to show how ``mixed'' exponential sums can be reduced to ``pure'' exponential sums when \(m\geq 2\), (iii) to make a thorough review of the formulae and upper bounds that are available for the above sums. There is a bibliography with 96 references, and 18 open questions are formulated in the course of the survey to motivate further research on these topics. For the entire collection see [Zbl 1002.00005].