How data travels, what can go wrong, and how it is protected.
These are the statements the Information and Software Technology Year 9 syllabus makes about Networks and the Internet. Dux records each one against the questions you answer, so you can see which of them you have actually been tested on and which have never been asked.
Network types and topologies - Networks and the Internet, Year 9.
IP addressing and DNS - Networks and the Internet, Year 9.
Protocols: HTTP, TCP/IP - Networks and the Internet, Year 9.
Wireless networks and bandwidth - Networks and the Internet, Year 9.
Cyber security threats - Networks and the Internet, Year 9.
Encryption and authentication - Networks and the Internet, Year 9.
Passwords, phishing and social engineering - Networks and the Internet, Year 9.
Reliability, redundancy and backups - Networks and the Internet, Year 9.
Year 9 Assessment Task Shape is 50 marks in 75 minutes. Questions on Networks and the Internet are not one shape repeated: the command word decides what the marker is looking for, and the mark value decides how much of it. These are the ones Information and Software Technology Year 9 uses.
Dux writes practice for this module in exactly these shapes, so the drill is the same task the paper sets — not a general knowledge quiz with the module name on it.
Networks and the Internet is module 3 of 3 in Information and Software Technology Year 9. Students routinely lose marks because a question spans two modules, so the neighbouring modules are worth reading next to this one.
Dux diagnoses Information and Software Technology Year 9 dot point by dot point, then writes questions in the shape this course marks. Written answers come back marked against the bands.