[Year 12 Its] New kid on the block

[Robert Timmer-Arends]

Study design, p42 OC1 dot point 5 "types of networks including local area
networks (LAN) and ..."

Regards
Robert T-A

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Kelly" <kel at mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au>
To: "is" <is at edulists.com.au>
Sent: Friday, November 10, 2006 11:34 AM
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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