General Thoughts: Information Technology (3 Viewers)

[soap~]

Re: How Was The Exam 2008!?!?!

Probably the easiest question there tbh. Hint: Body language isn't verbal.

Yeah I know, that's how I came to that answer. But team meetings would be physical and hence would have body language.

meh.

 

[EBHSTrooper]

Re: How Was The Exam 2008!?!?!

I put (A) Faulty sections on the disk for the scandisk one. Though I just had a look at Windows XP, 98se and NT4.0 and none of them have that, bleh.

it was disk fragmentation we were talking about it with the teacher afterwards

But the thing is scandisk has absolutely nothing to do with fragmentation...
it searches the disk for bad sectors and corrupted file structures and stuff...

Yeah I know, that's how I came to that answer. But team meetings would be physical and hence would have body language.

meh.

but in a team meeting, you must talk (which is verbal) instead of just using body language.
Answering machines and telephone conversations also are verbal because its voice. Answering machines may not be real time but they sure are verbal...

 

[jaxxa]

Re: How Was The Exam 2008!?!?!

I know that confused me a bit too, But that was the most corect answer.

 

[dwarven]

Re: How Was The Exam 2008!?!?!

Yeah I know, that's how I came to that answer. But team meetings would be physical and hence would have body language.

meh.

but isnt that reading too much into the question?

 

[prodstar]

Re: How Was The Exam 2008!?!?!

I did 21 and 22

yeah same


but multiple choice was gay




NOOO I PUT RTF instead of CSV for the multiple choice ==

 

[elnewb]

Re: How Was The Exam 2008!?!?!

NOOO I PUT RTF instead of CSV for the multiple choice ==

lol nub

 

[Knowingnothing]

Re: How Was The Exam 2008!?!?!

Oh God. Stuffed up the Multiple Choice so bad.

Extended response were as easy as pie. I'm pretty sure I only got like 10 for MC now. I liked 21 and 22. Very easy to determine what to do.

And Team Meetings would be a verbal gathering is it not?

 

[elnewb]

Re: How Was The Exam 2008!?!?!

Unless you know sign language.

 

[me-mfhs]

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NOOO I PUT RTF instead of CSV for the multiple choice ==

me too!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[elnewb]

Re: How Was The Exam 2008!?!?!

At this rate it looks like i'll be topping the state in comparison to you guys

 

[me-mfhs]

Re: How Was The Exam 2008!?!?!

what were you meant to do for Q21 to get a good mark??

 

[QUIRK]

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yeah i did RTF aswell...

fuck.. after reading this, i think i've gotten a few wrong

 

[Currypower]

Re: How Was The Exam 2008!?!?!

At this rate it looks like i'll be topping the state in comparison to you guys

Mr Confident.

 

[EBHSTrooper]

Re: How Was The Exam 2008!?!?!

Question 13: Scandisk utility I put (d) the location of blocks
Question 14: OHS committee I put it as a standard (b)

grr, could you please explain these two :S

for 13, i hadn't heard of blocks before in my life so I went with A for faulty sectors.
I was wondering how it could be the location of blocks if the whole hard drive would have to be divided into blocks if such a thing were to exist and in that case, all the boxes should have a B...

Also, for 14, isnt it the OHS act? :S Link


thx

 

[Samu]

Re: How Was The Exam 2008!?!?!

Yeah I chose RTF aswell for the multiple choice question.

The question regarding the OH&S was bullshit but apart from that the whole exam was pretty straight forward imo.

I did 20 and 21 because they were easy to waffle on about pretty much anything in regards to what was being asked for, espically 20 (the joy of IT)


Fuck 22 though.

 

[r0b-dog]

Re: How Was The Exam 2008!?!?!

grr, could you please explain these two :S

for 13, i hadn't heard of blocks before in my life so I went with A for faulty sectors.
I was wondering how it could be the location of blocks if the whole hard drive would have to be divided into blocks if such a thing were to exist and in that case, all the boxes should have a B...

Also, for 14, isnt it the OHS act? :S Link


thx

all this talk is making me nervous..

for the picture one it was confusing as..
i put the head with the helment. as safety.. the flameable one i thought was electriccty..


oh&s i put oh&s act.

scandisk?? wah?
i'll put defragmentation

and as for the extended responses i put q20 and q21

q22 was too hard..


the multiple choice this year was different than the others.. the old mc choices are more of spreadsheets and databasses (if you actually did pratice the IST mc you would of noticed)

any input anybody???

 

[EBHSTrooper]

Re: How Was The Exam 2008!?!?!

i generally like multi choice because they require less writing, this year it was all good except for that OHS question

I did essay questions 21 and 22 cos 20 looked too open :S

the multiple choice this year was different than the others.. the old mc choices are more of spreadsheets and databasses (if you actually did pratice the IST mc you would of noticed)

Oh, that could be cos of the new syllabus?
Hopefully you had done this sample 08 paper http://www.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/syllabus_hsc/pdf_doc/info-technology-specimen-08.pdf

 

[sdsdsdsdsd]

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I fucking hate long response i wrote maybe a page for both 20 & 21 and none of it made sense :mad1::mad1::mad1::mad1:

 

[elnewb]

Re: How Was The Exam 2008!?!?!

grr, could you please explain these two :S

for 13, i hadn't heard of blocks before in my life so I went with A for faulty sectors.
I was wondering how it could be the location of blocks if the whole hard drive would have to be divided into blocks if such a thing were to exist and in that case, all the boxes should have a B...

Also, for 14, isnt it the OHS act? :S Link


thx

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_storage

Most file systems are based on a block device, which is a level of abstraction for the hardware responsible for storing and retrieving specified blocks of data, though the block size in file systems may be a multiple of the physical block size. In classical file systems, a single block may only contain a part of a single file. This leads to space inefficiency due to internal fragmentation, since file lengths are often not multiples of block size, and thus the last block of files will remain partially empty. This will create slack space, which averages half a block per file. Some newer file systems attempt to solve this through techniques called block suballocation and tail merging.

Looks like I was wrong about the OHS committee then

 

[EBHSTrooper]

ah right, thx for the link

o well, i duno
thaught scandisk was was for bad sectors and file systems.

anyway, i hope all you guys get good results