How'd we go?

[duckpatch]

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Well I wasn't expecting to write that much but I think it was a brilliant paper. The first 10 questions were extremely easy (I'm just hoping the answer on the first page were TPS, Star Network and then Client-Peer).. because they gave me horrors when I first looked at the questions because I never really focused on that area.... but it just got way too easy from that point onwards.

The Case Study was unique, used more Systems and Technology approach with sensors and that garbage but it was nice to see that the deskchecking and validation was easier than past exams. I was able to locate the problem in the code for a change

Overall, I'm extremely confident with how I went. Anyone got answers they want to share? This is all I wrote down (apart from the very first page that I already listed):

Q13: Pilot (man I'm hoping its Pilot... I was gambling that between Phrase..)

and the DFD went like this, well I hope:
Entity: Customers
from system to Customers: confirmation_data
from system to Warehouse: packing_info

[anarchron]

Apparently, according to my teacher (he wrote Checkpoints and a new textbook), there is no such thing as a pilot implementation. But I think you may be forgiven for putting that.

My major gripe is with the legal and ethical question. They could've chosen a more sensible scenario. I said:

Ethical
Lucy may need to know whether Peter is making her software worst
Lucy may need to know whether Peter is putting backdoors into her system

Legal
Breach of copyright software license
Ownership of the changes to the software
GPL and OpenSource requirement to publish changes.

[duckpatch]

Originally Posted by anarchron

Apparently, according to my teacher (he wrote Checkpoints and a new textbook), there is no such thing as a pilot implementation. But I think you may be forgiven for putting that.

Hmm well according to my text book there is 4. I hope they give me the better of the doubt

I think I only covered two of your Legal points for that question which took up the whole space. I totally forgot about the Ethical issues but you would get full marks with that one; maybe just 2 for me. It was pretty open ended for that question.

[backlash_]

i wrote pilot too, because that is exactly what it is.

for 2b. i wrote 'a LAN with a client/server architecture'. because i wasnt sure what to put down, so that covered both bases.

the first topology was also a star.
NOS - admins restrict access, users get access to their dedicated storage
evaluation, implemtentation, anal.
a process transforms data into information
data storage
integer, text, boolean..(they should've used fruit_weight which was a floating integer)
usability, efficeicy, reliability.

technical documentation
error in alogirthm was to replace OR with and.
design faults, ambiguous textboxes, and failure to identify which greenhouse the alert was referring to.

thats all i can remember

[Ahmad0]

I wrote pilot changeover aswell.

for 2b i wrote Client-server network.

[duckpatch]

Ahmad0, I guess we are in the same boat

[carbyheat]

what a stupid exam. pretty straightforward, just a few vague questions (but then again, it's information systems - i should expect that!).

i put pilot for the changeover, it really could not have been anything else.

same answers as other people too, im interested to see what study score i get for it!

[ShannonG]

I put bus down instead, because... I'M AN IDIOT WHEN IT COMES TO PRESSURE!!

Besides that, I had LAN and the rest were the same as above. So yay for that.

[duckpatch]

Bus of all things....

[Ahmad0]

I did worse: I put 'network information system' for the very first question

[bruncle]

I thought that was actually a pretty hard exam. In reading time I was kind of worried, because I couldn't think of answers to quite a few of the questions. But when I put pen on paper, it all came flooding out and I managed to finish it with about 45 minutes to spare, so it wasn't too bad.

I just said a Local Area Network for the network type in part a. I think I screwed up that second user interface section. I didn't see that fault with the greenhouse name at all, I just said 1. It didn't say how high the temperature was, so it might not be urgent and 2. It didn't say what needed to be done - there should be a reference to a troubleshooting guide or something.

[anarchron]

Well I guess it's better to say how the error message didn't explain how to fix the problem because it said "Manual Intervention Required" which is ambigious. I'm not too sure about the 2 greenhouses. Were there already 2 greenhouses in place or were they planning on putting 2 greenhouses in?

Anyways going by past papers, alerts and error message questions always had lack of clarity or lack of specificity as their answers.

[paul09]

i really messed that up

I studied pretty hard, had a SAC average of 98%.

I aced section A, I have a good memory and mixed with lots of studying, just remembering stuff was easy for me.

But the case study, I'm just naturally not good at them. Got the NS diagram and algorithm, but a fair few of the other questions I really had to just BS.

Guessing I got around 70-75/100.

I'm doing 8 yr 12 subjects over year 10, 11 and 12, so I'm allowed to mess up two(since only six count) and I've already used one lol. Ah well.

[Ahmad0]

Originally Posted by bruncle

I thought that was actually a pretty hard exam. In reading time I was kind of worried, because I couldn't think of answers to quite a few of the questions. But when I put pen on paper, it all came flooding out and I managed to finish it with about 45 minutes to spare, so it wasn't too bad.

I just said a Local Area Network for the network type in part a. I think I screwed up that second user interface section. I didn't see that fault with the greenhouse name at all, I just said 1. It didn't say how high the temperature was, so it might not be urgent and 2. It didn't say what needed to be done - there should be a reference to a troubleshooting guide or something.

For 1, I wrote it didn't have labels for minimum and maximum bounds (for each textbox), and it didn't label the units of temperature etc.

For 2, I wrote the green house number and room number weren't specified.

[bruncle]

Ah well, I guess we'll find out at the end of the year eh? I was hoping for a 50, but I don't think I did well enough on the exam. A 45 would still be allright though.