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I didn't like ethical and technical issues arising from Mickey's friends requests, and I didn't like the options questions that asked for the Purpose, Participants, Data/Information, etc.

Other than that, I think it was pretty straightforward. What do you think?
 

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Agreed. It was a pretty straightforward paper..

I had had enough of those information system diagrams by the end of it.. i thought I was seeing things!
 

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Hehe, I did the Transaction Processing System question that incorporated the Information Systems diagram, started turning the page thinking "glad that's over", and then saw the almost identical diagram for Multimedia. *sigh*
 

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i thought i had a printing mistake cuz eveyr option had that crappy diagram on the 2nd page :confused:
 

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It would have been better if I hadn't just come out of another exam. But, it was fairly ok...not too hard, but the same question for each option was pretty frustrating, I thought.
 

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that was the most freaking awesome paper i have ever done!!
i didnt like the one in the multiple choice with the graph with the 0's and 1's.. i took a guess
and i didnt like the one of the ones in TPS

but apart from that it was awesome!

our teacher was waiting as we came out and said that they were 3 shitty questions, which i pretty much agreed on..

woohoo! we're done! no more IPT ever!!
 

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exam thoughts

i agree that the exam was fairly straight forward. I hated those questions that were in the options with the info system diagram cause they took ages.
 

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and were repetitive
i guess alotta ppl hated those stupid options Qs with the system diagram
 

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Originally posted by honky tonk
I have a question.. did everyone else get D for Question 14?
I put B for Question 14.
Originally posted by asymptote03
i put B
I did too ;)
Originally posted by asymptote03
i got 19 A, 20 B, 16 B !
I did the same as you, except for Question 16, where I put C.
Originally posted by james_86
19 is C u n00bs
Okay, you don't have to call people "n00bs" for getting 1 mark off, unless you're prepared to admit to 100%, because 99% is "n00b"-like, because you didn't get that extra mark. So let's not call people names for missing out on 1 mark, if they believe it was correct at the time
:)
Originally posted by hipsta_jess
that was the most freaking awesome paper i have ever done!!
i didnt like the one in the multiple choice with the graph with the 0's and 1's.. i took a guess
and i didnt like the one of the ones in TPS

but apart from that it was awesome!
woohoo! we're done! no more IPT ever!!
I completely agree with you here hipsta_jess.

010 100 etc Multiple choice was pretty stupid, but I guess it was tricky for a reason ;)

I thought it was an awesome paper too, it sure beat my 2003 CSSA Trial, LOL! :D
Originally posted by tonberry_kun
and were repetitive
i guess alotta ppl hated those stupid options Qs with the system diagram
I didn't mind the repetition, but I guess it got boring writing the purpose/information processes over and over :p
 

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Originally posted by honky tonk
I didn't like ethical and technical issues arising from Mickey's friends requests
I honestly didn't think it was too bad. I just talked about three things:
1) His intellectual work being used with no compensation
2) Data privacy - his friends may not want his other friends seeing their information etc
3) Technical = filesize. Not that I put this example in, but you know how Hotmail has a 2mb inbox limit? Well a populated database could easily exceed 2mb. Not to mention the strains on bandwidth for uploading, download etc.
 

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I basically said:

a) Privacy of the individual (ethical)
b) Technical - mail merging 'impossibilities' (technical)

Made up stuff though :p
 

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um what about database software version compatibility..

Huy check ur PM!
 
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3) Technical = filesize. Not that I put this example in, but you know how Hotmail has a 2mb inbox limit? Well a populated database could easily exceed 2mb. Not to mention the strains on bandwidth for uploading, download etc.
Yeah thats what I put! I was a bit worried that I was missing the main issue though, was there another major technical issue?
 

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Originally posted by Jeo
Huy check ur PM!
Thanks ;)
Edited my post.

Also thanks to "crazie" from BOS for PM'ing me, notifying the dead link (exceeding my site bandwidth).

:)
 

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Originally posted by Leap
Yeah thats what I put! I was a bit worried that I was missing the main issue though, was there another major technical issue?
I put database compatibility.. like all the users would have to get the same database software.. am I making sense? :(
 

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Originally posted by Leap
Yeah thats what I put! I was a bit worried that I was missing the main issue though, was there another major technical issue?
I put the size issue too
 

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hey huy

huy did u put 14B and 16C as well ?
man i cant believe 16 wuz so easy, i didnt even fink of binary :mad:
 

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Originally posted by *hopeful*
huy did u put 14B and 16C as well ?
man i cant believe 16 wuz so easy, i didnt even fink of binary :mad:
This is what I put in the exam:

14 - B
16 - C

So yes, I did put it as well.

I thought about binary, see my exam paper.
2^0
2^1
I tried to make columns and work it out, but I figure it's too much of an effort for 1 mark :p (I wanted to get out of there after the 'pencil/pen' conundrum)

:)
 

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