KASNEB DICT case studies
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The Diploma in Information Communication Technology (DICT) is a diploma-level qualification offered within the Kasneb qualification framework. Kasneb is a State Corporation under The National Treasury and Economic Planning, established by the Government of Kenya in 1969, and its mandate covers the development of syllabuses, the conduct of professional, diploma and technician examinations, and the certification of candidates in accountancy, finance, credit, governance and management, information technology and related disciplines. The KASNEB DICT case studies are 5 cases and about 4,184 words.
1The Six-Minute Boot: Triage in a 40-Seat Computer Lab
A college computer laboratory has 40 desktop machines, each with 4 GB RAM, a 5400 rpm hard disk and Windows 10. The lab opens at 08:00 and the first class arrives at 08:05.
773 words, about 4 min2Flaky Wi-Fi and a Flat Network in a Three-Storey Office
A 120-staff office occupies three floors of a building. All devices sit on a single 192.168.1.0/24 network served by six unmanaged switches daisy-chained from floor to floor, with one 1 Gbps fibre link to the ISP.
809 words, about 4 min3Duplicate Patients and a Backup Window That Never Closes
A three-branch clinic runs a patient records database holding 45,000 patient rows. Reception staff at each branch register patients independently, and a recent audit found roughly 6,000 rows that appear to be duplicates of other rows, some with conflicting dates of birth.
879 words, about 4 min4After the Phishing Email: A SACCO With No Logs
A savings cooperative with 60 staff across eight branches lost KES 2.3 million after a finance officer entered credentials on a lookalike login page and an attacker approved three transfers over two days. The investigation found that all eight branches share one domain administrator account whose password is written in a drawer at head office, that workstation logs are kept only locally and overwritten weekly, that USB ports are unrestricted, and that no one reviews who approves transfers above KES 500,000.
823 words, about 4 min5Month Three of a Six-Month County ICT Project
A county government has contracted a vendor to deliver a revenue-collection system in six months for KES 18 million, paid in four equal instalments tied to milestones. At the end of month three, the vendor has been paid KES 9.5 million but has delivered only the login module and a database schema, which the ICT officer estimates at 25% of scope.
900 words, about 5 min