[Year 12 SofDev] 2013 Exam Section A B C

Fri Nov 15 19:46:32 EST 2013

I was happy with exam, there wasn't usual ridiculous question anywhere. Like others the only question im unsure of is C1...

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Subject: Re: [Year 12 SofDev] 2013 Exam Section A B C

I like your answers David
I also think Geoff has a point about q 8  --- the question stem does say appears to be most efficient and D appears to be...
Though I take on your comment about limiting to the given variables.

Tricky

What did yo'all think of the rest of it?

I liked the way the algorithms were used and what they were used for
I was pleased the use case question B6 was a complete Use Case

C1 threw me.
Starting questions are often easier  but this one, I am not sure whether something easy like constraints and functional reqs and non functional reqs
or if it is a deeper question and I have completely missed it.
Always scared of over-thinking it
but it does say tasks
does it hark back to project management?
and C1b ... for 1 mark ...     e.g. success at bench tests?

C6b....   I feel there is an ethical dilemma  (George has been naughty and should be sacked for it - he downloaded s/w; he is altering it without permission; he was going to pass it off as his own work; he did not tell his boss who would also have been in trouble for inadequate supervision etc.  George has been very bad.)
My very best students felt there was no ethical dilemma just a legal dilemma and that George was just breaking the law.
Melanie has the ethical dilemma of whether to report it or sack him or both
George ...? what actually is his ethical dilemma?

C9    7 lines  and a lot of white space

All in all my good students were happy with it and felt it stretched them well.

My in the middle ones were so - so about it.

My uninspired unenthusiastic non studying attendees to my class just ignored me on the way out when i was asking what they felt about it.

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On 15/11/2013, at 6:28 PM, "Howard, David" <dhoward at stmichaels.vic.edu.au<mailto:dhoward at stmichaels.vic.edu.au>> wrote:

Well the question stated that the variable would be myPi, going by VCAA logic you wouldn't be able to use anything else.

From: <Matheson>, Geoff J <matheson.geoff.j at edumail.vic.gov.au<mailto:matheson.geoff.j at edumail.vic.gov.au>>
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Subject: Re: [Year 12 SofDev] 2013 Exam Section A

I'm very much in agreement with pretty much all of these, except I'm not so sure about question 8. What makes you say that my2pi is not a variable? For my mind it's a crap way of coding, but D looks to be more efficient and thus the correct answer.

Geoff Matheson

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On 15 Nov 2013, at 5:36 pm, "Howard, David" <dhoward at stmichaels.vic.edu.au<mailto:dhoward at stmichaels.vic.edu.au>> wrote:
OK, I am sticking my neck out on these ones.

1

D

Easy standard convention for data stores

2

B

Should be in system constraints

3

B

A Trojan here makes sense, others do not.

4

C

Method is the only option left and it is what it is

5

A

Stack, FILO

6

A

Intranet is on a LAN only which can sometimes be accessed by a VPN

7

D

Both the radius and circumference will need to be floating point.

8

B

my2Pi is not a variable

9

C

When dealing with physical medium

10

B

I would have called a text editor a productivity application but utility is the only one left.

11

C

Makes sense, physical fast, wireless mobile and subject to interference (not to say wired isn't)

12

B

Other don't make sense

13

D

14

A

The rest are useless, easy question

15

A

It is what it is. Checks if it is a number

16

B

Others are not functional req.

17

C

The others are not review functions

18

C

Easy, I think...

19

B

B is the only logical option

20

D

A and B are ruled out from the question stem. Video is rubbish

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