Information Systems and Databases
The information processes, data storage, database design and the integrity of stored data.
- Information Systems and Their Structure
- Database Design and Normalisation
- SQL and Data Manipulation
NSW Information Processes and Technology Stage 6 structure, expressed in Dux teaching language.
Dux tracks each dot point separately, so “I did Information Processes and Technology” becomes a list of specific things you can already do and specific things you have never been asked. Open a module for all of its dot points, written out.
The information processes, data storage, database design and the integrity of stored data.
Networks, transaction processing, decision support and the automated systems that act on data.
Requirements, feasibility, project management, implementation, testing and user support.
Privacy, security, professional responsibility and the technologies now entering information systems.
A Information Processes and Technology paper is not one question type repeated. Each command word asks for a different shape of answer, and each is worth a different number of marks.
| Command word | Question type | Marks |
|---|---|---|
| analyse | Short answer | 3–6 |
| assess | Short answer | 3–5 |
| design | Short answer | 3–6 |
| evaluate | Extended response | 8–10 |
| evaluate | Short answer | 3–5 |
| explain | Short answer | 3–5 |
| identify | Multiple choice | 1 |
| interpret | Multiple choice | 1 |
| justify | Short answer | 3–6 |
| recommend | Short answer | 3–5 |
| solve | Short answer | 3–5 |
HSC Information Processes and Technology - Examination Shape — 100 marks, 180 minutes. Practice papers in Dux are assembled to this shape rather than invented, so the timing is training too.
Diagnostic first, then questions written in the shape this course uses. Written answers come back marked against the bands, not just scored.