VCE COMPUTING

UNIT 1 – EXAM REVISION

 BREAKDOWN
• 120 Minutes
• Made up of 20 Multiple Choice Questions
• 14 Short Answer Questions
• Total Marks are 90
• 25 For the Multiple Choice
• 90 Marks for Section B, Short Answer
• Why 120 minutes?
• This is what will happen next year, so it is time to start preparing
• The cover page will say Unit 1 & 2, but we are just interested in Unit 2
 COMPARING TO YEAR 12
• Smaller, not as much of a slimmer version as Unit 1
• Year 12 has:
• 20 Mutliple Choice
• 30 Marks for Short Answer Questions
• 50 Marks for Case Study Questions
• 2 Hours in total
 MULTI CHOICE – 4 OPTIONS FOR
EACH QUESTION
• The difference between formats and conventions
• Formats – Bold colour
• Conventions – accepted rules for formatting
• What is pseudocode? – Programming speak for a general coder that can be applied to any programming
language
• Define debugging, what is it and why is it important?
Finding and fixing errors, code wont work
• Analysis stage of the PSM – What happens in this stage?
Research, write in your own words, Identifying the problem
• Definitions of various chart types – lines, bubble, scatter etc… bar and column
• Definition of a Boolean data type a data type with one of two possibilities
Yes/No 0/1 two options
 MULTI CHOICE CONTINUED
• Database records
• Efficiency : time money experience versus effectiveness
• Definition of a data type
Number, time, string , currency: cell formatting
• Examples of design tools – eg, flowchart- website, IPO – anything data dictionary – website
• Qualitative: words versus quantitative: numbers
• Design stage of the PSM: prototype, evaluation criteria
• Following some pseudocode – what happens at the end?
• Data visualisations definitions
Quantitative vs qualitative
• Analysing a data visualisation
IPO- Input Process Output
Number vs string: 2 + 5 = 7 vs 2 + 5 = 25
Pseudocode
Network advantages: Efficiency: better and faster communication, shares resources and cost
savings .
Sharing resources, allows communication and sharing software and hardware.
Disadvantages: cabling and servers can be expensive, hard to administer.
P2P- advantages –
Less cost and setup
No NOS
Easy to administer
Less restrictions
Disadvantages – less secure individuals security, hard to backup, might hurt performance if
high traffic.
 2
C/S – advantages
More secure , More efficient , Backup easier , More reliable , you can monitor users, better
performance, handles multiple users better.
 SHORT ANSWER QS
• Name a programming language : python – high level general purpose.
• Define an algorithm: solution, set of steps a process or set of instructions for a solution, it is the process used to
create input data and output data.
• Variable types and differences between them
Number, string
• How to fix errors in coding and why they happen
Debugging- process of finding and removing potential or existing errors, syntax error: error in code
• Sketching a layout diagram
• Rewriting problems and defining constraints – limitations and restrictions in a project
Restrictions, time, money
• An automatic validation example
• Define the problem, what is a range check higher , exact lower range
 SHORT ANSWERS - MORE
• Using test data to follow through on a test program, using different examples with different
outcomes
• More questions on testing
• A small case study to read through and answer, involving visualisations and manipulation
• Database questions:
• Involving:
• Primary keys
• Fields
• Data types
 SHORT ANSWER – ARE WE THERE
YET?
• User input form design and drawing
• Validation types – automatic VERSUS manual
• A sample query to fill out given some field names
• IPO Chart with an example
• More pseudocode questions
• Some sample GROK code to work through, just reading a few lines to tell me what happens
at the end
• Jump back into GROK for some practice