ipt syllabus changes effective for hsc 2009 (based on syllabus-annotated version) (based on...
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IPT SYLLABUS CHANGESEffective for HSC 2009 (based on syllabus-annotated version)
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6 Course Structure
Core Topicssome topic headings and subheadings have
been renamed to remove ambiguities that existed in the original syllabus.
Project Work -> Project Management New subheading - Techniques for managing a
project Renamed subheading – Making decisions ->
Planning Communication Systems
New subheading – Managing communication systems
All subheadings – major restructuring of content
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HSC Outcomes
H1.1 applies and explains an understanding of the nature and function of information technologies to a specific practical situation
H2.2 develops and explains solutions for an identified need which address all of the information processes
H3.1 evaluates and discusses the effect of information systems on the individual, society and the environment
H3.2 demonstrates and explains ethical practice in the use of information systems, technologies and processes
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HSC Outcomes (continued)
H4.1 proposes and justifies ways in which information systems will meet emerging needs
H5.2 assesses the ethical implications of selecting and using specific resources and tools, recommends and justifies the choices
H6.1 analyses situations, identifies needs, proposes and then develops solutions
H6.2 selects, justifies and applies methodical approaches to planning, designing or implementing solutions
H7.1 implements and explains effective management techniques
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9.1 Project Management
This topic is intended to give students an understanding of the underlying theory of project management as well as an opportunity to plan, design and implement an information system that has a purpose.
The topic name has been changed to Project Management to avoid the ambiguity associated with the previous name, Project Work .
This topic covers all the theory behind managing a system development project.
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9.1 Project Management
techniques for managing a project Students learn about: the consequences for groups that fail to
function as a team, including: financial loss employment loss missed opportunities
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9.1 Project Management
techniques for managing a project Students learn about: project management tools, including:
Gantt charts scheduling of tasks journals and diaries funding management plan communication management plan
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9.1 Project Management
techniques for managing a project Students learn to: understand the communication skills
required to manage a system development project, such as: active listening conflict resolution negotiation skills interview techniques team building
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9.1 Project Management
techniques for managing a project Students learn to: understand the need to apply project
management tools to develop a system using a team approach
appreciate the advantages of groups that function as a team, including: increased productivity enhanced job satisfaction the development of a quality system
appreciate the need for complete documentation throughout all aspects of the system
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9.1 Project Management
understanding the problem Students learn about: approaches to identify problems with
existing systems, including: interviewing/surveying users of the
information system interviewing/surveying participants analysing the existing system by determining:
how it works what it does who uses it
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9.1 Project Management
understanding the problem Students learn about: approaches to identify problems with
existing systems, including: interviewing/surveying users of the
information system interviewing/surveying participants analysing the existing system by determining:
how it works what it does who uses it
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9.1 Project Management
understanding the problem Students learn about: requirements reports requirements prototype
a working model of an information system, built in order to understand the requirements of the system
used when the problem is not easily understood repetitive process of prototype modification and
participants feedback until the problem is understood
can be the basis for further system development
N.B. The term requirements prototype is introduced.
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9.1 Project Management
understanding the problem Students learn to: apply appropriate techniques in understanding
the problem interpret a requirements report which includes:
the purpose of the systems an analysis of an existing system definition of extra requirements
create a requirements prototype from applications packages that provide: screen generators report generators
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9.1 Project Management
planning Students learn about: a feasibility study of proposed solutions,
including: economic feasibility technical feasibility operational feasibility scheduling
TechnicalOperationalEconomicScheduling
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9.1 Project Management
planning Students learn about: choosing the appropriate development
approaches traditional outsourcing prototyping customisation participant development agile methods
N.B. New system development
methods have been added.
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9.1 Project Management
planning Students learn about: the requirements report that:
details the time frame details the subprojects and the time frame
for them identifies participants identifies relevant information technology identifies data/information identifies the needs of users
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9.1 Project Management
planning Students learn to: Compare system development
approaches : Traditional Iterative Agile methods
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9.1 Project Management
designing Students learn about: clarifying with users the benefits of the new
information system designing the information system for ease
of maintenance clarifying each of the relevant information
processes within the system detailing the role of the participants, the
data and the information technology used in the system
refining existing prototypes
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9.1 Project Management
designing Students learn about: tools used in designing, including:
context diagrams data flow diagrams decision trees decision tables data dictionaries storyboards
N.B. System flow charts has been
removed and storyboards
added.
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9.1 Project Management
implementing Students learn about: acquiring information technology and
making it operational hardware software, customised or developed
the need for an operation manual detailing procedures participants follow when using the new system
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implementing Students learn about: an implementation plan that details:
participant training the method for conversion
parallel conversion direct conversion phased conversion pilot conversion
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9.1 Project Management
implementing Students learn to: compare and contrast conversion
methods implement the appropriate information
technology
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9.1 Project Management
testing, evaluating and maintaining
Students learn about: testing and evaluating the solution with
test data such as volume data simulated data live data
modifying parts of the system where problems are identified
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9.1 Project Management
testing, evaluating and maintaining
Students learn about: trialling and using the operation manual reviewing the effect on
users of the information system Participants people within the environment
Students learn to: update system documentation
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9.2 Information Systems and Databases
database information systems
N.B. This subheading has been reworded but the content remains the same.
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9.2 Information Systems and Databases
organisation Students learn about: the logical organisation of relational databases,
including: schemas as consisting of:
entities attributes relationships
one to one one to many many to many
tables as the implementation of entities consisting of: attributes records
linking tables using primary and foreign keys user views for different purposes
Types of relationships have
been specified.
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9.2 Information Systems and Databases
organisation Students learn about: data modelling tools for organising
databases, including: data dictionaries to describe the
characteristics of data including: field name data type data format field size description example
The concept of a user view has been introduced. Data dictionary requirements have been modified
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9.2 Information Systems and Databases
organisation Students learn about: the logical organisation of hypermedia,
including: nodes and links uniform resource locators metadata such as HTML tags
Students learn to: use software that links data, such as:
HTML editors web page creation software
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9.2 Information Systems and Databases
storage and retrieval Students learn about: centralised and distributed databases tools for database storage and retrieval, including:
extracting relevant information through searching and sorting a database
selecting data from a relational database using Query by Example (QBE) and Structured Query Languages (SQL) commands, including: SELECT FROM WHERE ORDER BY
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9.2 Information Systems and Databases
issues related to information systems and databases
Students learn about: quality of data data matching to cross link data across multiple
databases current and emerging trends in the organisation,
processing, storage and retrieval of data (See Course Specifications Document) data warehousing and data mining Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) and
Online Transaction Processing (OLTP)
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9.3 Communication Systems
Major restructuring The communication systems topic has been
totally restructured from the bottom up to provide a more cohesive unit of work.
The topic now provides a framework under which a variety of communication systems can be studied.
Additional dot points have been added to establish this framework concept but, apart from that, the topic includes much the same content as before.
Dot points have been expanded to indicate the depth to which a concept is treated.
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9.3 Communication Systems
characteristics of communication systems Students learn about: communication systems as being those
systems which enable users to send and receive data and information
Students learn to: use applications to create and transmit
messages establish a communications link and describe
the steps that take place in its establishment
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9.3 Communication Systems
characteristics of communication systems• the framework in which communication systems function, demonstrated by the following model
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9.3 Communication Systems
characteristics of communication systems Students learn about: the functions performed within the communication
systems in passing messages between source and destination, including: message creation organisation of packets at the interface between source
and transmitter signal generation by the transmitter transmission synchronising the exchange addressing and routing error detection and correction security and management
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characteristics of communication systems Students learn about: the roles of protocols in communication
handshaking and its importance in a communications link
functions performed by protocols at different levels
Students learn to: identify and describe specified protocols at
different stages of the communication
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characteristics of communication systems Students learn about: the client server model
the role of the client and the server thin clients and fat clients examples of clients such as
web browsers mail clients
examples of servers such as print servers mail servers web servers
Students learn to: identify client processing and server processing describe the advantages and disadvantages of client server
architecture
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9.3 Communication Systems
examples of communication systems Students learn about: teleconferencing systems messaging systems
(See Course Specifications Document) email voice mail Voice over Internet Protocol (VOIP)
other systems dependent on communication technology such as: e-commerce EFTPOS electronic banking
A number of outdated examples have been deleted and newer examples added
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9.3 Communication Systems
examples of communication systems Students learn to: use a communication system to transmit and
receive audio, video and text data for given examples, identify
the participants information/data information technology need and purpose
for given examples explain how data is transmitted and received
for given examples, identify the advantages and disadvantages of the system
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9.3 Communication Systems
transmitting and receiving in communication systems
Students learn about: transmission media, including:
wired transmission (See Course Specifications Document) twisted pair coaxial cable optic fibre
wireless transmission (See Course Specifications Document) microwave satellite radio infrared
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9.3 Communication Systems
examples of communication systems Students learn about: characteristics of media in terms of
Speed Capacity Cost security
Students learn to: compare and contrast traditional communication
systems with current electronic methods represent a communication system
diagrammatically for a given scenario, choose and justify the most
appropriate transmission media
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9.3 Communication Systems
transmitting and receiving in communication systems
Students learn about: communication protocols, including:
application level protocols http smtp SSL
communication control and addressing level protocols TCP IP
transmission level protocols Ethernet Token ring
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9.3 Communication Systems
transmitting and receiving in communication systems
Students learn about: strategies for error detection and error correction network topologies, including:
star bus ring hybrid wireless networks
Students learn to: diagrammatically represent the topology
diagrammatically represent the topology
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9.3 Communication Systems
transmitting and receiving in communication systems
Students learn about: the functions performed by the following hardware
components used in communication systems (See Course Specifications Document) hubs and switches routers modems bridges and gateways Network Interface Cards (NIC) mobile phones cables wireless access points bluetooth devices
A number of new communication devices have been added
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9.3 Communication Systems
transmitting and receiving in communication systems
Students learn to: describe the location and role of hardware components
on the network compare the functions of different hardware
components predict developments in communication systems based
on current trends simulate activities involved with communication in
areas such as e-commerce
EFTPOS Internet banking
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transmitting and receiving in communication systems
Students learn about: characteristics of network operating software similarities and differences between
the Internet Intranets extranets
Students learn to: identify the main characteristics of network
operating software compare and contrast the Internet, intranets
and extranets
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other information processes in communication systems
Students learn about: collecting, such as
the phone as the collection device with voice mail
EFTPOS terminal as a collection device for electronic banking
displaying, such as the phone as the display device with voice mail EFTPOS terminal as a display device for
electronic banking
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9.3 Communication Systems
other information processes in communication systems
Students learn about: processing, including:
encoding and decoding analog and digital signals
formation of data packets routing encryption and decryption error checking
parity bit check check sum cyclic redundancy check (CRC)
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other information processes in communication systems
Students learn to:processing distinguish between data in analog and digital
form justify the need to encode and decode data identify where in a communication system
signal conversion takes place describe the structure of a data packet describe methods to check the accuracy of data
being transmitted
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9.3 Communication Systems
managing communication systems Students learn about: network administration tasks, such as:
adding/removing users assigning users to printers giving users file access rights installation of software and sharing with
users client installation and protocol assignment logon and logoff procedures network-based applications
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managing communication systems Students learn to: detail the network management software in
a given network describe the role of the network
administrator and conduct network administration tasks
demonstrate logon and logoff procedures, and justify their use
adopt procedures to manage electronic mail
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issues related to communication systems
Students learn about: security globalisation changing nature of work interpersonal relationships e-crime legal virtual communities
New issues relating to the use of communication systems have been introduced. Issues are best dealt with in association with the examples provided
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9.3 Communication Systems
issues related to communication systems Students learn about: current and emerging trends in communications
(See Course Specifications Document) blogs wikis RSS feeds podcasts online radio, TV and video on demand 3G technologies for mobile communications
A number of areas for studying current and emerging trends have been added
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9.3 Communication Systems
issues related to communication systems
Students learn about: describe and justify the need for ethical
behaviour when using the Internet discuss the social and ethical issues that have
arisen from use of the Internet, including: the availability of material normally restricted electronic commerce domination of content and control of access to the
Internet the changing nature of social interactions
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9.3 Communication Systems
issues related to communication systems Students learn about: identify the issues associated with the use of
communication systems, including: teleconferencing systems messaging systems e-commerce EFTPOS electronic banking
design and implement a communication system to meet an individual need
predict developments in communication systems based on current trends