Information Processes and Technology 2017 HSC exam pack (archive)
2017 Information Processes and Technology HSC exam paper
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Students should:
- address the key words, for example, ‘describe’, ‘explain’, ‘compare’, ‘discuss’
- support their responses with examples or by making reference to the scenario provided
- demonstrate their knowledge and understanding of the content in various contexts and in different scenarios
- provide communication hardware and software examples when explaining Information Technology in their responses
- construct a diagram when required to demonstrate their understanding of a system, for example, context diagram, schematic diagram.
Students can prepare for this examination by:
- applying their knowledge and understanding of the content to various real world scenarios
- practising constructing the diagrams examined within the course to represent the relevant systems
- keeping up to date with contemporary social and ethical issues arising from using the different information systems, as well as current and emerging technologies
- using past HSC papers and marking guidelines to practise responses.
In better responses, students were able to:
- identify both hardware and software technology in a given system as well as list the advantages of using an electronic system over its paper-based equivalent
- identify basic features of both relational and flat file databases and recognise the general structure/layout of a schema
- describe the process of handshaking.
In better responses, students were able to:
- identify the importance of data warehousing and describing data mining using an appropriate example (Q25)
- describe the role of the knowledge engineer in the creation of an expert system (Q26)
- identify sensors as input devices and actuators as output devices (Q27)
- identify a speaker as an audio output device and identify that increases in internet transmission speed has contributed to the widespread use of multimedia streaming services (Q28).
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