SQU IT Exit case studies
SQU IT Exit · Put your knowledge to work in context.
The SQU IT Exit Exam is an internal assessment used by Sultan Qaboos University to gauge whether graduating Information Technology students have retained the core knowledge of their degree. It is intended for students near the end of their IT programme, not for external certification or professional licensure. The SQU IT Exit case studies are 5 cases and about 4,893 words.
1The 38-Minute Seating Script
The exams office at a polytechnic runs a Python script to seat 8,400 candidates across 210 rooms for five sessions. The script sorts the students by student number, then for each student scans every already-seated candidate in each candidate room to check for a course clash before appending.
925 words, about 5 min2Fourteen Double Bookings at the Clinic Desk
Kitale Polyclinic books appointments through a small PHP front end over PostgreSQL 13. Two receptionists work the same desk, and doctors' slots are 20 minutes long.
957 words, about 5 min3One Flat Network, a Default-Password NVR and a Ransom Note
Mwenge Skills Centre runs 62 staff laptops, a 300-device student BYOD fleet and three lab servers (a file share on SMB/445, an attendance system on 8080, a print server). Everything sits on 192.168.10.0/24 behind one consumer router doing NAT, with two consumer access points, and the staff SSID and student SSID both bridge onto the same Layer 2 segment.
1,016 words, about 5 min4Duplicates, Long-Lived Tokens and the Crash on Real Devices
An agricultural extension office uses an Android app (Kotlin, minSdk 24) for field officers to record farm visits. Forty-five officers work in areas with no coverage for up to three days.
1,015 words, about 5 min5The Export Endpoint and the Link-Shared Spreadsheet
You are a junior developer at a 12-person software house in Muscat. Three weeks into a fixed-price contract worth OMR 18,000, you are building a beneficiary registration system for a government office.
980 words, about 5 min