[Year 12 Its] New kid on the block

[Adrian Janson]

Hi Mark,

Great to have you on board - does this mean that we can count on some MK
suggested solutions? ;)

My students had queries about A2b) in the same way as you have pointed
out.... my hope is that the examiners will accept both options.  Especially
as B10a) is basically the same question but this time referring to a 'WAN'.

B13 - I believe the fact that both systems (in this case) would be basically
impossible to run at the same time, is a point that the students should
make.

B17 - I feel that Objective 2 and 3 are not mutually exclusive.  They are
objectives - and may not be met in practice.  However - the wording is a
little ambiguous 'No more than 2 errors in a month will be recorded'.....
Does this mean that there will be no more than 2 errors in a month, or that
there can be more as long as you only RECORD 2.

Cheers,
Adrian


-----Original Message-----
From: is-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:is-bounces at edulists.com.au] On
Behalf Of Mark Kelly
Sent: Friday, 10 November 2006 11:34 AM
To: is
Subject: [Year 12 Its] New kid on the block

Hi all.  Next year I'm taking IS/SoD (or whatever fond abbreviation will 
be used) for the first time.

I've just had a look at the 2006 IS exam to get a feel for things.

Do IS people do exam post mortems?

Anyway, some ignorant thoughts...

One small quibble is the spelling of Shneiderman  I too only found out 
this year that there's no "c" after the "s".  (source - 
http://www.cs.umd.edu/~ben)

A2b and B10a refer to a "type of network".  I find the word "type" 
ambiguous: does it mean LAN/WAN or P2P/Client-server , or indeed "Ethernet"?

BTW - Do IS teachers have a protocol for referring to exam questions ... 
specifying the section, question number and subquestion's letter? I hope 
you can understand which questions I'm referring to in the para above.

B13 - Is it my imagination or is the first dotpointed implementation 
option (running both systems at the same time) basically impossible? How 
could 2 different control systems run the same system at the same time 
without causing chaos?  Or is that what the kids were supposed to point out?

B17 - again, maybe it's my imagination or ignorance, or are objectives 2 
and 3 mututally exclusive.  How can no more than 2 errors per month be 
recorded (objective 2) AND record all errors (objective 3)?  Something 
fishy?

Does objective 2 mean "no more than 2 errors per month will HAPPEN"? 
Otherwise, objective 2 as it stands means "Only record the first 2 
errors and ignore all the others"!

Cheers

Mark

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