CAPE Information Technology Unit 1 case studies
CAPE Information Technology Unit 1 · Put your knowledge to work in context.
The Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) is the Caribbean Examinations Council's certification of the academic, vocational and technical achievement of students who have completed a minimum of five years of secondary education and wish to further their studies. Subjects are organised as one-Unit or two-Unit courses, each Unit containing three Modules, and may be studied concurrently or singly. The CAPE Information Technology Unit 1 case studies are 5 cases and about 4,916 words.
1The Clinic That Backed Up to a Desk Drawer
Seaview Community Clinic keeps all patient records on a single reception desktop: a 2016 machine with a 500 GB hard drive holding about 18 GB of records, growing by roughly 4 GB a year. The only backup is a 2 TB USB hard drive that the receptionist swaps every Friday evening and stores in her desk drawer.
961 words, about 5 min2Guest House With Three Floors of Complaints
Lagoon View Guest House has 18 rooms spread over three floors of reinforced concrete. A single ISP-supplied router sits in the ground-floor office, broadcasting one open network called 'LagoonView'.
1,012 words, about 5 min3The Hardware Chain That Runs on One Workbook
Island Build Supplies runs three hardware stores from a single Excel workbook kept on a shared network folder. It holds about 12,000 product lines and 38,000 invoice lines; recalculating it takes roughly 45 seconds, and staff save a copy each morning named final v7, final v8 and so on.
971 words, about 5 min4The Ministry's Fingerprint Clock
A small-island Ministry of the Public Service proposes mandatory fingerprint clock-in for 300 public officers across 12 ministries, plus GPS tracking on 40 field vehicles and on the tablets carried by officers who inspect buildings. The country has no comprehensive data protection act in force; a draft bill has been in committee for three years.
826 words, about 4 min5The Utility Billing Loop That Skips a Customer
A student is writing the billing module for a small water utility. The specification says: for each of the customers on the route, read the previous and current meter readings, compute consumption, apply a standing charge of 12.00, and print a bill; apply a rate of 0.45 per unit for the first 100 units, 0.60 for units 101 to 200, and 0.85 above 200; at the end print the average bill.
1,146 words, about 6 min