Exam Revision

3A AIT

Exam

• 3 hours

• Sections Multi-choice (20 min)

Short Answer (30 min)

Extended Answer (30 min)

Production Booklet (1.5 hour)

What to take in to an exam

• 4 x blue/black pens

• 1 x red pen

• 2 x Sharpened pencils

• A ruler

• A pencil sharpener

• An eraser

• Warm clothes

• A small packet of tissues

• Coloured pencils

My Advice

• Read questions carefully

• Read how much the question is worth

• Answer the question according to the marking guide

• Answer every question

• Allow plenty of time for the Production Section

Topics to Study

End User Agreements

• What are they?

• Why are they used?

• What goes in them?

Utility and Diagnostic Software

What are they?

What are examples of each?

Benchmarking

• What is it?

• What is it comparing?

Requirements Analysis

What is it? Why is it done. When is it done?

Mac v Windows v LinuxOperating Systems

• The advantages/disadvantages of having each operating systems

• Proprietary vs Open Source software

Components of a Computer

• What are the main components of a computer that need to be considered. Why are they important?

• What are the minimum specifications and what are the recommended specifications for a web designer user. Explain why?

• Ie RAM (primary memory), Graphics Card, CPU, monitor, HDD (secondary memory)

• Considerations that need to be made when deciding on new software and hardware

Privacy

• What is it

• What legislation governs it

• What are the basic rules organisations have to abide by (5)

• What are some strategies procedures organisations can use to secure their data.

• What is data warehousing? Data mining?

File Formats

•Explain how compression of file types affects the transmission of data.

•The best types of file formats for music, graphics and video.

•Transmission of files in a network (size, type of media used, traffic, distance)

WMA, MP3, MPEG, AVI, MOV, TXT, WAV, XLS, RealAudio, JPG or GIF, SWF

Ergonomics

• What is it

• List some ailments caused by bad ergonomic practise.

• List different equipment and/or furniture which can aid in this

• List some strategies that can be employed to prevent injury

• What is RSI and OOS?

Monitoring of Employees

• Reasons for and against monitoring staff

• Ways that employers can monitor employees IT usage

• Contents of an End User Policy

Digital Convergence

• What is it?

• How can it apply to someone’s work situation (ie travelling salesman, truck driver etc.)

Inclusivity

• What is it?

• Why is it important?

• What are some of the types of disabilities that need to be considered when creating ICT products? Solutions

Securing a network

• Explain what needs to happen to secure data. Physical and software issues (theft through to viruses)

SOE

• What is it and what are the advantages of having a SOE in an organisation?

Transfer of Data

What are the issues?

Issues with transfer of data over satellite, cable and wireless

Issues in IT

• Digital Divide - what is it and be able to suggest different groups of people who it affects and strategies organsations and governments can implement to reduce it.

• Computer Crime (identity fraud, hacking, Phishing etc)

• Telecommuting - Advantages disadvantages, technology,

• Social Networking – advantages and disadvantages in the workplace

Useability/Functionality/Currency/Accuracy of websites

• You will need to know what attributes features can be used to make your website each of the above.

• How each can be tested

Improving IT skills and Finding IT help

• You will need to know ways staff can get training in IT (industry magazines, conferences, short courses, specialists coming in to the office, peer training etc) and where staff can get support for issues with IT (online forums, chat, help desk, outsourced help desk, discussion forums, online tutorials)

Transfer of Data

• What are the issues with transferring large files across the internet and how it can be solved.

Purchase of Hardware and Software

• Considerations you need to make before an organisation purchases

- Hardware

- Software

GPS

• What is it?• How does it work?• What can it do for a mobile phone app and mobile website?

Peripheral Devices

What are they?

Examples of

Production Booklet

General advice

• Leave enough time

• Don’t write introductions and conclusions. Give written answers in paragraph

Design Criteria

• Be ready to write a list of important design criteria you need before you start planning for a website. You do this from the situation description.

• Remember these MUST be able to be evaluated so don’t make general statements like “it will need to have cool technology stuff” You could say “the website will need to incorporate social networking links because the audience is most likely to interested in this technology”

Target Audience• Stage 3 - the examiner wants you to explain

relevance and evidence of each. Build the examiner a picture of what the typical user would “look” like!

- Age Range- Sex (M or F) - Technology habits/knowledge – “Tech savvy”

evidence?- Language (ie users expected to understand

terminology related to content? Maybe talk about slang vs business language)

- Socio-economic (rich – poor – middle; how does this effect the pictures, content you have?)

- Interests (would users have common interests?)- Culture - anything to consider? What does the

culture expect to see or not to see.

Current Website Trends - the important aspect of this is to be able

to link it to your websites purpose and user needs.

• Video - Giving users the opportunity to watch SD and HD video. What can they watch?

• Social Networking integration (Facebook friends, My Space links)

• Virtual Reality - (ie being able to click on a link and allow the user to rotate a product or take a virtual tours or major projects)

• Mobile and portable technology compatible (browser changes/mobile options)

• Carousel Navigation• Live Feeds – Date, world times, RSS feeds, stock market feeds.

Design Principles

• Be able to identify the design principles in relation to a website or poster- Balance (symmetrical, asymmetrical, radial) Is it balanced and what elements on the page make it look balanced? Talk about positive and - Unity (harmony/proximity) are the components on the page consistent ie colours, shapes borders etc Is there a particular colour or theme that is used down the page- Dominance What is dominant on the page. How is it achieved and why (purpose)

- Emphasis (how is this achieved on different elements of the webpage colour, shape, line) How are other objects emphasised on the page. Why?

- Contrast – Is there strong contrast on the page. How is it created?

- Pattern Is pattern used? Why and how?- Movement – Is it present how is it achieved?

Why?- - Rhythm – Does the page follow a natural

rhythm down the page. Is it in hierarchical order from important to least important.

Design Elements

- Space (Use of negative or empty space). Why explain? Create emphasis and allows user to relax eyes

- Colour (are they significant colours for brand or feel/content?) and Contrast

- Alignment (what type of? Why and what effect does it have? Does the alignment of the text help to separate sections of the page?)

- Texture Is there anyhere on the page which makes it appear like a related surface (wood, steel etc). Does this help with the authenticity or theme of the page.

- Form and shapes (3D effects used and how? Does it create emphasis around the object? Make it stand up off the page)

- Value – Does the web designer use different shades of colour to emphasise different parts of the page. Are the headings dark in colour and some of the text for example more “washed out” in appearance.

Drawings

• Annotate!!

• Bring coloured pencils (Don’t colour in whole page but show important colours on page

• Answer according to mark allocation.

• Work in a landscape rectangle because most users have widescreen monitors. Could ask you to type a graphic/logo. Not marking ability to draw but relevance of image, font and colours.

11/15 marks

Notice how this talks

about usability

functions design and

current trends. The

annotation is used to

outline the design

criteria. The

explanation of the

website will come

later.