MATSEC SEC Information Technology case studies
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The MATSEC Secondary Education Certificate (SEC) Information Technology is a secondary-level certification examination administered by the MATSEC Examinations Board, which is part of L-Università ta' Malta and is listed on the University's own website navigation under Study. The Board publishes its regulations, guidelines and policies, syllabi, current session information, applications, past papers, and marking schemes and exemplars, so candidates can consult the official syllabus document for the exact topic list, assessment structure, and grade descriptors that apply to their session. The MATSEC SEC Information Technology case studies are 5 cases and about 3,865 words.
1Choosing a stock system for a family hardware shop
Tal-Kwalità Hardware is a family-run shop in Birkirkara with two tills, 3,200 product lines and four staff, two of them part-time. Stock is recorded on paper cards and a single Excel workbook kept on the office PC.
800 words, about 4 min2Diagnosing a school network with four complaints
St Nicholas is a secondary school in Hamrun with one computer lab of 28 workstations, 400 students and 35 staff sharing a single 100 Mbps fibre line and six wireless access points. Teachers report four problems.
800 words, about 4 min3Patient records in a physiotherapy clinic
Physio Plus is a private physiotherapy clinic in Sliema with four therapists, two receptionists and about 6,000 active patient records. Reception books appointments by phone and writes notes on paper cards; the cards are scanned to a USB drive that stays plugged into the reception PC.
777 words, about 4 min4An online registration form for a junior football club
Marsascala FC registers about 320 junior players each season. Registration night is run by six volunteers with paper forms and a shared spreadsheet; last season 17 players were entered twice, one nine-year-old was allocated to the under-16 squad, and a form was accepted with the date of birth '31/02/2015'.
728 words, about 4 min5When a spreadsheet stops being safe for invoicing
Two partners run a computer repair business from Qormi, issuing about 240 invoices a year. Everything is tracked in one Excel workbook called invoices.xlsx.
760 words, about 4 min