[Year 12 SofDev] SD Post mortem

[Kevin Feely]

Hi Mark,
Thanks, must have taken a while.
I think we are substantially on the same page. hahahahahaha
Looks like I differ on 4 points, so we have 2 people independantly 
answering this paper only have 4 points of divergence
Not bad
Now if i may nit pik and precede with that lovely KK IMHO here i go - 
deep breath -

PART A yep perzacktely

PART B
Q1 "Archiving's purpose is to free up space" no i dont think so, 
otherwise whats the difference between archiving and deleting?
And if its main purpose was to free upstorage space it would be a 
superfluous practice in todays world.
I think - Archiving’s purpose is to create an historical record to 
comply with legislation and for good corporate governance practices.
Example: archiving student reports at a school for record keeping 
requirements
So if it was up to me a would think deleting is an incorrect answer.

Q4 "minimise running time" I think would have to include loading into 
RAM otherwise the direct access from CD choice, and the "many accesses" 
would make no sense.
Eg, If it averaged 10 accesses on the file per session then the direct 
access will have the data much faster than Option C.

I agree with you on the answer, but I think for eliciting an informed 
response we need to have more quantitative data that requires the 
student to know more than access from RAM is faster than from HDD and 
faster again from DVD or CD. Students should be aware of actual data 
access time ranges and be able to make decisions on questions like this 
via calculation.

Q5 I thought the 3 minute claim referred to the length of time an exam 
candidate had to wait to load the created exam!? So if we had 20 people 
sitting an exam we created it would take 3 minutes per candidate to 
"load" the questions, ie get to a point where they can start answering 
the exam. Is that 20 x 3 or 3min no matter how many candidates you have?

And i think Claim 3 is not a reliability criteria, sorry, but i would 
have compatibility as the single correct response. As in if we have a 
favourable network it will not have any fatal errors, if we dont it will 
have fatal errors, therefore we are talking compatibility.

PART C
Q1 Social. "pattie did not spend as much time....". isn't this 
efficiency as we are looking at time improvements?
Q2 Loved your answer. loved it!
Q5 The use of == or = instead of <-- errrrr NO, sorry
Q11 we are asked to identify 2 features she would want in this plan 
...... Your feature that "Is the DDRP documented". Are you getting her 
to ask for a feature in the document is "that it exists"? I have assumed 
that the document exists and we have to specify 2 important features 
that it should contain, so I would see this feature as incorrect.

regards
Kevin





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