[Year 12 IT Apps] U4O2 KK09 (for 2011) - disaster recovery

[Roland Gesthuizen]

An interesting distinction Mark, I missed that on my first reading although
you have raised it before. I guess it is not as if we are airlifting
supplies to the tsunami affected coastline, just restarting the IT services.

On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Mark KELLY <kel at mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au>wrote:

> Hi all.  Having seen a couple of (what I consider) dodgy questions about
> data disaster recovery plans, I am a little concerned about key knowledge
> dotpoint 9 of U4O2 next year: "disaster recovery strategies and the testing
> of these strategies".  It's not significantly improved from the existing
> U4O2 KK05 which also refers to 'disaster recovery strategies'.
>
> The dodgy questions were discussing things like rebuilding after fires,
> sweeping up the mess etc.  In other words, disasters rather than *data *disasters,
> which is our territory.
>
> I hope VCAA examiners and SAC writers read the dotpoint as "*data*disaster recovery strategies and the testing of these strategies" to avoid
> irrelevant non-ICT questions and student responses.
>
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