The information processes, data storage, database design and the integrity of stored data.
These are the statements the Information Processes and Technology syllabus makes about Information Systems and Databases. 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.
The components of an information system and the processes that transform data into information.
Entities, relationships and normalisation, and the redundancy each normal form removes.
Querying, filtering and joining tables, and expressing a requirement as a query.
Collecting, organising, analysing, storing, processing, transmitting and displaying information.
Range, type, consistency and referential checks, and the difference between validation and verification.
Forms, sensors, transactions and web capture, and the error each method tends to introduce.
Storage media, backup strategy and recovery, and why redundancy is not a backup.
Accuracy, timeliness, relevance and completeness, and the decisions each supports or undermines.
HSC Information Processes and Technology - Examination Shape is 100 marks in 180 minutes. Questions on Information Systems and Databases 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 Processes and Technology 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.
Information Systems and Databases opens the Information Processes and Technology course. Students routinely lose marks because a question spans two modules, so the neighbouring modules are worth reading next to this one.
Dux diagnoses Information Processes and Technology dot point by dot point, then writes questions in the shape this course marks. Written answers come back marked against the bands.