[Year 12 Its] Post mortem Section B

Tue Nov 14 16:29:50 EST 2006

Kevork,

Q10
Another advantage of microwave is the security

Nick

>>> kevork at edulists.com.au 13/11/2006 9:57:39 pm >>>
Hi Folks,

   Just reading through Section B again and my thoughts ( final )  for
your 
consideration.

Q 8 -- Another hazard would be security or lack thereof. Greenhouses
are not 
known for tough exterior walls so I guess theft of the computer and a
trip 
to cash converters might be tempting for some.
 Protection would have to come via a solid construction room inside or

attached to the greenhouse with all six sides ( walls , floor and
ceiling ) 
to be strong enough not to be breached and probably alarmed ( and
cooled ) .

A10 - Dial up is too prohibitive ( are there phone plans that cap the
local 
call costs per month ?? ) whilst ideal for the data volume.
         Broadband is overkill for data volume but affordable for fixed

capped cost per month.
         Microwave is possible it seems ( up to 5 km --  
http://www.corning.com/docs/opticalfiber/wp6321.pdf ) but we have no
idea 
about installation cost, any recurrent costs and whether maintenance
may 
come into it. I am thinking Lucy would be responsible for her own 
maintenance once installed.  Not a nice choice. But what are the
examiners 
seeking as justification to rule it out ? Cost ?

Q 11 -- If Lucy wants to compare data ( humidity, temp , light ) over 
different times of the year to decide what the best growth conditions
are I 
am guessing she needs to do lots of data access .  Ok, so if that is
the 
case , of her file storage options she can use random access or
sequential. 
Sequential would be too slow as the device has to read everything
between 
current location and desired location . So random access would be
better 
wouldn't it ?
    If we are suggesting sequential is better because it allows 
export/import that would only be the case after all the year's data has
been 
entered after which a single export would then be ok for use in other 
applications.  ( Then again, why wouldn't a random access file not
export 
equally well ?  ) But Lucy may want to monitor things throughout the
year 
and for that reason I am inclined to think the examiners' are looking
at 
random access for speed.
  As for each record being the same size, I thought that was a given as
data 
is sampled every 5 mins. We would like temp, humidity and light
consistently 
every 5 mins to go into 1 record.

  The VET IT exam was on today -- anyone want to meet me on that list
for a 
chat ?  And we are still running Cisco exams Semesters 2 and 4 (
securing 
routers with access lists and configuring LANs and WANs with Frame
Relay , 
NAT and PAT-  any takers there ?? ::))

See you all next week at the big one ( VITTA conference )

Kevork Krozian
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Kelly" <kel at mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au>
To: "Year 12 Information Technology Systems Teachers' Mailing List" 
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Sent: Monday, November 13, 2006 2:17 PM
Subject: [Year 12 Its] Post mortem erratum - B7a

> In B7a, my original answer to the second test case was "Close" based
on 
> the action of the first IF statement. Thanks to a perceptive student
who 
> emailed to correct: it should be (close, then) *Open*.
>
> The t=34 triggers the first IF statement (which closes the curtain).
It 
> was at that point that I stopped reading and moved to the next
question...
>
> But then in the second IF statement the L=5000 triggers the curtain 
> opening. So the curtain closes, then opens, so the algorithm finally

> produces an OPEN status - which is what the question asked. Ooops!
>
> -- 
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