[Informatics] Informatics exam - C7

[Mark]

This question is confusing me.

*Mary, the marketing manager, has come up with an idea to help cut costs.
She has proposed that her online marketing department use email to contact
InformUs' participants rather than the telemarketing department calling
participants individually.*
*Under Mary's plan, participants would complete a survey online and the
results would be saved to the cloud rather than on the database on
InformUs' file server.*

*Explain one benefit of minimising risk for the InformUs information
management strategy that Mary's proposal would have. *

What does that question actually *mean*?

It is asking:

- How will Mary's proposal minimise risk to the strategy?

or (what the actual words are saying):

- What is a benefit of minimising risk?

To which the answer is ... "One benefit of minimising risk for the
information management strategy is that the strategy will face fewer risks."

I don't know how students interpreted the question, and I feel sorry for
the ESL kids trying to work out what on earth it means.

I tried the old trick of reading the examiner's mind and working out what
the mangled question was probably *trying* to say, but I honestly can't do
it this time.

How did you guys read this question?

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Mark Kelly

mark at vceit.com
http://vceit.com
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