QCE Digital Solutions Unit 4 — Complex Digital Data Exchange Problems and Solution Requirements

1 Data exchange 2 Data interface 3 Scope of a solution 4 Constraints on a solution 5 Technical constraints 6 Legal constraints 7 Economic constraints 8 Social constraints 9 Functional requirements 10 Solution Non-functional Requirements 11 Writing measurable non-functional requirements 12 Listing requirements and constraints for a problem 13 Purpose of a software requirements specification (SRS) 14 SRS content: requirements, constraints and scope 15 Data requirements for a research question 16 UX characteristic: interoperability 17 Confidentiality 18 Integrity 19 Availability 20 Asset 21 Threat 22 Vulnerability 23 Accidental threats to data 24 Deliberate threats to data 25 Events-based threats to data 26 Insider threats and human error 27 Unauthorised network access 28 Man-in-the-middle attacks 29 Denial of service attacks 30 Social engineering 31 Risk as likelihood and impact 32 Risk rating matrix 33 Trust boundaries 34 Consequence of diminished data integrity: poor decision-making 35 Consequence of diminished data integrity: financial loss 36 Consequence of diminished data integrity: impacted operations 37 Personal data 38 Sensitive information 39 Privacy Act 1988 (Cwlth) 40 What the Australian Privacy Principles are 41 APP 3: collecting only what is reasonably necessary 42 Consent when collecting personal data 43 Australian Privacy Principle 6 44 APP 8: sending personal data overseas 45 Australian Privacy Principle 11 46 Collecting only the data you need 47 Security measures to protect personal information 48 Security controls: prevent, detect, respond 49 Protecting data in transit 50 Protecting data at rest 51 Defining security requirements 52 Identifying vulnerabilities and risks from a case study 53 Identifying and mitigating threats 54 Keeping API keys secure 55 Managing secrets outside source code 56 Backup storage locations and the 3-2-1 rule 57 Evaluation criteria 58 Criteria for a data exchange solution: protection, security and interactions 59 Evaluating a security strategy against confidentiality, integrity and availability 60 Proposing evaluation criteria for security effectiveness 61 Data completeness 62 Data consistency 63 Data integrity characteristic: correctness 64 Data integrity characteristic: reasonableness 65 Data integrity characteristic: authenticity 66 Data integrity characteristic: timeliness 67 Assessing data against the six integrity characteristics 68 Keeping an untouched copy of the raw data 69 Handling missing values 70 Flagging duplicates with a COUNTIF formula 71 Standardising spelling variations with Find and Replace 72 Converting text to numbers and fixing date formats 73 Cleaning text with TRIM, UPPER and PROPER 74 Keeping a cleaning log 75 Validation: why data is checked on entry 76 Types of validation check 77 Existence checking in code 78 Type checking in code 79 Range checking in code 80 Combining validation checks in a validation function 81 What data integrity means in transmission 82 Checksum 83 Hashing functions 84 Using hashes to check data integrity 85 Checking end-to-end data integrity from collection to visualisation 86 Purpose of analytical tools for users, data and systems 87 Context diagram (Level 0): system and entities 88 Context diagram (Level 0): data flows 89 Drawing a context diagram from a scenario 90 Data flow diagram (Level 1): processes 91 Data flow diagram (Level 1): data stores and entities 92 Data flow diagram (Level 1): data flows 93 Drawing a Level 1 data flow diagram from a scenario 94 Splitting a scenario into inputs, processes, outputs and storage 95 Decomposing a problem into sub-problems 96 Decomposing a problem into a hierarchy chart 97 Input-process-output (IPO) chart 98 Procedures versus functions 99 Functions calling other functions 100 Program structure with a main() function 101 Creating Modules (.py files to import) 102 Why decomposition helps: testing each part separately 103 Primary and secondary data sources 104 Authentic data in large repositories 105 Dataset file formats: CSV, XLSX, JSON and XML 106 Delimited (CSV) files: structure 107 XML files: structure 108 What an API is 109 Reading JSON data from an API response 110 Data storage systems 111 Why use a database instead of a spreadsheet 112 Choosing data types for input, storage and output 113 What a library is: standard vs third-party 114 Imports 115 The math module 116 Descriptive statistics in Python with the statistics module 117 Hashing text with hashlib in Python 118 Third-party dependencies 119 Pseudocode Writing Conventions 120 Variable Assignment: x <- value 121 input keyword 122 print keyword 123 Comparison Operators in Pseudocode 124 Boolean Operators in Pseudocode 125 if-then-else block 126 else if: chained selection 127 for loop: for i from 1 to n 128 while loop 129 Counters and accumulators in pseudocode 130 Arrays in pseudocode 131 Records in pseudocode 132 Function header in Software Development pseudocode 133 define: defining a function 134 return keyword 135 Calling a function 136 Writing pseudocode from an IPO chart 137 Purposes of internal documentation 138 Explaining data and code structures with comments 139 Header comments for code maintenance 140 Docstrings for functions and classes 141 Stubs: placeholder code and comments for future development

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QCE Digital Solutions Unit 4: Analysing a data exchange problem Students define a data exchange problem by its scope, constraints, functional and non-functional requirements, SRS and data requirements, and consider interoperability.

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QCE Digital Solutions Unit 4: Data security, the CIA triad and risks Students learn confidentiality, integrity and availability, and identify assets, threats, vulnerabilities and risks, including how poor data integrity harms organisations.

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QCE Digital Solutions Unit 4: Privacy of personal data Students learn what personal and sensitive information is and how the Privacy Act and Australian Privacy Principles govern collecting, using, sending and protecting it.

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QCE Digital Solutions Unit 4: Security controls and evaluation criteria for data exchange Students choose security controls to protect data in transit and at rest, define security requirements, mitigate threats, and write criteria for judging protection, security and interactions.

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QCE Digital Solutions Unit 4: Adjusting data for completeness, consistency and integrity Students assess data against integrity characteristics, clean and validate it, and use checksums and hashes to confirm it arrives intact.

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QCE Digital Solutions Unit 4: Data flow diagrams Students draw context diagrams and Level 1 data flow diagrams linking external entities, processes, data flows and data stores.

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QCE Digital Solutions Unit 4: Decomposing a data exchange problem Students break a problem into inputs, processes, outputs and storage, and into sub-problems that are built as functions and modules and tested separately.

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QCE Digital Solutions Unit 4: Data sources, data interfaces and library code Students identify data sources, formats, storage and APIs for the data interface, and reuse code from built-in and third-party libraries.

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QCE Digital Solutions Unit 4: Pseudocode and code comments Students write language-independent pseudocode for sequence, selection, iteration, data structures and functions, and document code with comments, docstrings and stubs.

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Python Crossword: Control Flow (Modules 11–20) 10 clues · Type Conversion, Comparison Operators, Boolean Logic, If Statements and more

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Python Crossword: Advanced (Modules 41–50) 10 clues · Sets – Operations, Nested Lists, Lists + Dictionaries, File Operations – Open and more

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Python Word Search: Getting Started and Control Flow (Modules 1–20) 22 words to find · print() function, input() function, Comments, Variables and more

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Python Word Search: Advanced (Modules 41–63) 20 words to find · Sets – Operations, Nested Lists, Lists + Dictionaries, File Operations – Open and more

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VCE Innovative Solutions Crossword: Impact of Emerging Trends in Digital Systems and more (Part 1 of 2) 10 clues · Impact of Emerging Trends in Digital Systems, Characteristics of Creative and Innovative Solutions, Functions and Capabilities of Digital Systems, Ideation Techniques and more

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VCE Innovative Solutions Word Search: Impact of Emerging Trends in Digital Systems and more (All modules) 20 words to find · Impact of Emerging Trends in Digital Systems, Characteristics of Creative and Innovative Solutions, Functions and Capabilities of Digital Systems, Ideation Techniques and more

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VCE Cyber Security Crossword: Emerging trends in cyber security to Antivirus software (Modules 1–10) 10 clues · Emerging trends in cyber security, Regulatory compliance, Zero Trust Architecture, Routers and more

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VCE Cyber Security Crossword: Local Area Networks (LANs) to Viruses (Modules 21–30) 10 clues · Local Area Networks (LANs), Wide Area Networks (WANs), Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs), Global exposure to cyber security threats and more

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VCE Cyber Security Crossword: Worms to Operating system updates (Modules 31–40) 10 clues · Worms, Ransomware, Denial of service attacks, Improper credential management and more

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VCE Cyber Security Crossword: ISM guideline: confidentiality and integrity of wireless traffic and more (Modules 61–74) 10 clues · ISM guideline: confidentiality and integrity of wireless traffic, ISM guideline: wireless network footprint, Privacy Act 1988 (Cwlth), Australian Privacy Principle 1 and more

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VCE Cyber Security Word Search: Emerging trends in cyber security and more (Modules 1–20) 20 words to find · Emerging trends in cyber security, Regulatory compliance, Zero Trust Architecture, Routers and more

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VCE Cyber Security Word Search: Local Area Networks (LANs) to Operating system updates (Modules 21–40) 20 words to find · Local Area Networks (LANs), Wide Area Networks (WANs), Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs), Global exposure to cyber security threats and more

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VCE Cyber Security Word Search: Software malware updates to Information Privacy Principle 5 (Modules 41–74) 22 words to find · Software malware updates, Staff procedures, Encryption and decryption, Caesar cipher and more

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VCE Pseudocode Crossword: What is Pseudocode to if-then block (Modules 1–10) 6 clues · What is Pseudocode, Pseudocode Writing Conventions, Variable Assignment: x <- value, input keyword and more

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VCE Pseudocode Crossword: if-then-else block to Reading and tracing complex pseudocode (Modules 11–28) 10 clues · if-then-else block, else if: chained selection, for loop: for i from 1 to n, Nested for loops and more

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VCE Pseudocode Word Search: What is Pseudocode to Reading and tracing complex pseudocode (Modules 1–28) 20 words to find · What is Pseudocode, Pseudocode Writing Conventions, Variable Assignment: x <- value, input keyword and more

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Years 5–6 Data & Information Crossword: Data, information and binary representation and Acquiring and manipulating data (Modules 11–20) 10 clues · Representing images with pixels, Primary and secondary data sources, Collecting data with a survey, Spreadsheet rows, columns and cells and more

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Years 5–6 Data & Information Crossword: Analysing and visualising data and Digital footprint and privacy (Modules 31–56) 10 clues · Choosing the right chart, Column and bar charts, Line charts, Pie charts and more

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Years 5–6 Data & Information Word Search: Data, information and binary representation and Acquiring and manipulating data (Modules 1–20) 20 words to find · Data and information, Types of data: numbers and text, Types of data: images, sound and video, Same data, different representations and more

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Years 5–6 Data & Information Word Search: Acquiring and manipulating data to Digital footprint and privacy (Modules 21–56) 20 words to find · Cleaning data, Formulas start with =, Arithmetic operators + - * /, The SUM function and more

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Years 5–6 Creating Digital Solutions Crossword: Defining problems and requirements and Designing algorithms with branching and iteration (Modules 1–10) 10 clues · What is a problem a digital system can solve?, User need, Writing a problem statement, Functional requirements and more

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Years 5–6 Creating Digital Solutions Word Search: Defining problems and requirements and Designing algorithms with branching and iteration (Modules 1–20) 20 words to find · What is a problem a digital system can solve?, User need, Writing a problem statement, Functional requirements and more

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Years 7–8 Digital Systems Crossword: Data transmission and network security and Account security and cyber threats (Modules 26–74) 10 clues · Comparing wired and wireless networks, Wi-Fi range and interference, HTTPS and the padlock, Securing a Wi-Fi network and more

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Years 7–8 Digital Systems Word Search: Hardware for particular tasks to Account security and cyber threats (Modules 4–74) 20 words to find · CPU clock speed (GHz), CPU cores, HDD vs SSD performance, Storage units: KB, MB, GB, TB and more

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Years 9–10 Digital Systems Crossword: Controlling and securing access to data (Modules 13–24) 10 clues · Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability, Authentication vs authorisation and more

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Years 9–10 Digital Systems Crossword: Controlling and securing access to data and Threats and software vulnerabilities (Modules 25–40) 10 clues · Salting a password hash, Brute-force and dictionary attacks, Asset, Threat and more

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Years 9–10 Digital Systems Crossword: Threats and software vulnerabilities to Software supply chain vulnerabilities (Modules 41–69) 10 clues · SQL injection, Buffer overflow, Zero-day vulnerabilities, Insider threats and human error and more

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Years 9–10 Digital Systems Crossword: Software supply chain vulnerabilities and Threat modelling and security responses (Modules 70–79) 10 clues · Reducing supply chain risk, Risk as likelihood and impact, Risk rating matrix, Data flow diagram of a system and more

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Years 9–10 Digital Systems Word Search: Controlling and securing access to data and Threats and software vulnerabilities (Modules 13–40) 20 words to find · Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability, Authentication vs authorisation and more

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Years 9–10 Digital Systems Word Search: Threats and software vulnerabilities to Threat modelling and security responses (Modules 41–79) 20 words to find · SQL injection, Buffer overflow, Zero-day vulnerabilities, Insider threats and human error and more

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VCE Data Analysis Crossword: Data types and data characteristics to Privacy and the Australian Privacy Principles (Modules 25–37) 10 clues · Characteristic of data: accessibility, Characteristic of information: clarity, Characteristic of information: context, Data quality: accuracy and more

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VCE Data Analysis Crossword: Privacy and the Australian Privacy Principles and Ethics and APA referencing (Modules 38–54) 10 clues · APP 2: anonymity and pseudonymity, Holding information only for its primary purpose, Security measures to protect personal information, Critiquing a system against the Australian Privacy Principles and more

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VCE Data Analysis Crossword: Ethics and APA referencing and Requirements, constraints and scope (Modules 56–67) 10 clues · Acknowledging sources and copyright, Purpose of APA referencing, APA in-text citations, APA reference list entry structure and more

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VCE Data Analysis Crossword: Requirements, constraints and scope and Design tools for databases, spreadsheets and visualisations (Modules 68–80) 10 clues · Scope of a solution, Listing requirements and constraints for a problem, Interpreting teacher-provided requirements for a data solution, Input-process-output (IPO) chart and more

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VCE Data Analysis Word Search: Data types and data characteristics to Ethics and APA referencing (Modules 25–54) 20 words to find · Characteristic of data: accessibility, Characteristic of information: clarity, Characteristic of information: context, Data quality: accuracy and more

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VCE Data Analysis Word Search: Ethics and APA referencing to Design tools for databases, spreadsheets and visualisations (Modules 56–80) 22 words to find · Acknowledging sources and copyright, Purpose of APA referencing, APA in-text citations, APA reference list entry structure and more

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VCE Spreadsheets, SQL & Visualisation Crossword: Descriptive statistics and Manipulating, validating and testing spreadsheet data (Modules 21–34) 10 clues · Grouping numbers into bins with COUNTIFS, The STDEV.S function, Interpreting standard deviation, Cleaning text with TRIM, UPPER and PROPER and more

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VCE Spreadsheets, SQL & Visualisation Word Search: Spreadsheet structure, formulas and functions to Manipulating, validating and testing spreadsheet data (Modules 4–34) 20 words to find · Naming worksheets consistently, Header labels for rows and columns, Relative and absolute cell references, The COUNTIF function and more

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VCE Software Development U3O1 Crossword: Naming conventions and internal documentation and Pseudocode (Modules 48–71) 10 clues · Camel casing, Snake casing, Hungarian notation for variables, Hungarian notation for interface controls and more

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VCE Software Development U3O1 Crossword: Pseudocode to Data structures (Modules 72–96) 10 clues · Turning pseudocode into Python, Changing a global variable with the global keyword, Functions calling other functions, Program structure with a main() function and more

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VCE Software Development U3O1 Crossword: Data structures and Data sources and files (Modules 98–113) 10 clues · Records: fields with different data types, Accessing a record's fields by name and by field index, Choosing a data structure, Plain text (TXT) files: structure and more

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VCE Software Development U3O1 Crossword: Data sources and files to Graphical user interfaces (Modules 114–124) 10 clues · Reading an XML file with ElementTree, Validation: why data is checked on entry, Types of validation check, Existence checking in code and more

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VCE Software Development U3O1 Word Search: Requirements and design tools to Pseudocode (Modules 10–71) 21 words to find · Data dictionary, Writing a data dictionary entry, Designing classes with a class diagram, Object descriptions and more

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VCE Software Development U3O1 Word Search: Pseudocode to Data sources and files (Modules 72–113) 21 words to find · Turning pseudocode into Python, Changing a global variable with the global keyword, Functions calling other functions, Program structure with a main() function and more

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VCE Software Development U3O1 Word Search: Data sources and files to Object-oriented programming (Modules 114–141) 20 words to find · Reading an XML file with ElementTree, Validation: why data is checked on entry, Types of validation check, Existence checking in code and more

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VCE Software Development U3O2 Crossword: Needs, requirements, constraints and scope and Analytical tools and the software requirements specification (Modules 26–41) 10 clues · Reports as a source of requirements, Analysing interview and survey responses to find needs, Economic constraints, Legal constraints and more

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VCE Software Development U3O2 Crossword: Analytical tools and the software requirements specification (Modules 42–51) 10 clues · Drawing a context diagram from a scenario, Data flow diagram (Level 1): processes, Data flow diagram (Level 1): data stores and entities, Data flow diagram (Level 1): data flows and more

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VCE Software Development U3O2 Crossword: Analytical tools and the software requirements specification and Legal requirements for copyright, ownership and privacy (Modules 52–71) 10 clues · Purpose of a software requirements specification (SRS), SRS content: requirements, constraints and scope, SRS content: user characteristics and technical environment, SRS content: analytical tools depicting existing systems and more

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VCE Software Development U3O2 Crossword: Ideation and evaluating design ideas to User experience and software design (Modules 86–109) 10 clues · Mood boards, Design criteria for an interface, Comparing alternative designs with a decision matrix, Efficiency of a solution and more

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VCE Software Development U3O2 Word Search: Needs, requirements, constraints and scope and Analytical tools and the software requirements specification (Modules 26–51) 20 words to find · Reports as a source of requirements, Analysing interview and survey responses to find needs, Economic constraints, Legal constraints and more

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VCE Software Development U3O2 Word Search: Analytical tools and the software requirements specification to Ideation and evaluating design ideas (Modules 52–85) 20 words to find · Purpose of a software requirements specification (SRS), SRS content: requirements, constraints and scope, SRS content: user characteristics and technical environment, SRS content: analytical tools depicting existing systems and more

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VCE Software Development U3O2 Word Search: Ideation and evaluating design ideas to User interface design principles (Modules 86–119) 20 words to find · Mood boards, Design criteria for an interface, Comparing alternative designs with a decision matrix, Efficiency of a solution and more

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VCE Software Development U4O1 Crossword: Efficient and effective solutions and user-centred design to Classes, objects and access modifiers (Modules 3–79) 10 clues · User-centred design, Order of operations with brackets in Python, Choosing data types for input, storage and output, Procedures versus functions and more

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VCE Software Development U4O1 Crossword: Classes, objects and access modifiers to Code repositories, APIs, libraries and AI assistants (Modules 82–114) 10 clues · Choosing access modifiers for a class, Readability improvements in code, Built-in functions sum(), min() and max(), List comprehensions and more

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VCE Software Development U4O1 Crossword: Code repositories, APIs, libraries and AI assistants (Modules 115–124) 10 clues · Branches and merging, What a library is: standard vs third-party, Random numbers with import random, The math module and more

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VCE Software Development U4O1 Crossword: Code repositories, APIs, libraries and AI assistants to Beta testing (Modules 125–171) 10 clues · Keeping API keys secure, Validation versus verification, Alpha testing, Commenting out code to isolate a bug and more

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VCE Software Development U4O1 Word Search: Efficient and effective solutions and user-centred design to Code repositories, APIs, libraries and AI assistants (Modules 3–114) 20 words to find · User-centred design, Order of operations with brackets in Python, Choosing data types for input, storage and output, Procedures versus functions and more

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VCE Software Development U4O1 Word Search: Code repositories, APIs, libraries and AI assistants to Beta testing (Modules 115–171) 22 words to find · Branches and merging, What a library is: standard vs third-party, Random numbers with import random, The math module and more

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VCE Software Development U4O2 Crossword: Vulnerabilities and risks in insecure development environments and Third-party software, code review and combined environments (Modules 23–47) 10 clues · What makes a development environment insecure, What an API is, Risks of using APIs, Hard-coded API keys and secrets and more

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VCE Software Development U4O2 Crossword: Security controls for development practices and stored data and Threat modelling and evaluating security practices (Modules 49–72) 10 clues · Code repositories, Securing a code repository, Encrypting data at rest and in transit, Peer code review process and more

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VCE Software Development U4O2 Crossword: Threat modelling and evaluating security practices and Copyright, Essential Eight and the ISM (Modules 81–95) 10 clues · Identifying and mitigating threats, Confirming threats have been mitigated, Criteria for evaluating the security of software development practices, Rating a practice against a criterion with evidence and more

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VCE Software Development U4O2 Word Search: Organisational goals and in-house vs external development to Third-party software, code review and combined environments (Modules 1–47) 20 words to find · Goals and objectives of medium and large organisations, Security as an organisational objective, Medium and large organisations compared, In-house development: advantages and more

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VCE Software Development U4O2 Word Search: Security controls for development practices and stored data to Mitigation and improving secure development practices (Modules 49–130) 20 words to find · Code repositories, Securing a code repository, Encrypting data at rest and in transit, Peer code review process and more

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VCE Data Analytics U3O1 Crossword: Data types and relational databases to Sourcing, validating and referencing data (Modules 17–49) 10 clues · Field sizes, SQL column data types and sizes, One-to-many relationships between tables, Boolean operators AND, OR and NOT in a WHERE clause and more

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VCE Data Analytics U3O1 Crossword: Sourcing, validating and referencing data to Statistical analysis of data (Modules 50–91) 10 clues · Setting spreadsheet data validation rules, Removing duplicate rows, Handling missing values, Converting text to numbers and fixing date formats and more

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VCE Data Analytics U3O1 Word Search: Data types and relational databases to Statistical analysis of data (Modules 17–91) 20 words to find · Field sizes, SQL column data types and sizes, One-to-many relationships between tables, Boolean operators AND, OR and NOT in a WHERE clause and more

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VCE Data Analytics U3O2 Crossword: Research questions and project planning to Collecting primary and secondary data (Modules 3–31) 10 clues · What a research question is, Research question feature: clarity, Research question feature: measurability of data requirements, Research question feature: feasibility and more

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VCE Data Analytics U3O2 Word Search: Research questions and project planning to Evaluating designs and design tools (Modules 3–146) 21 words to find · What a research question is, Research question feature: clarity, Research question feature: measurability of data requirements, Research question feature: feasibility and more

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VCE Data Analytics U4O1 Crossword: Manipulating data with software tools and Analysing data with statistics (Modules 3–37) 10 clues · Using a spreadsheet template, Writing a prompt that asks an AI tool to chart or summarise data, Checking an AI-made data representation against the source data, Using generative AI tools responsibly and more

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VCE Data Analytics U4O1 Crossword: Audience and developing infographics and dashboards to Data quality and testing visualisations (Modules 63–83) 10 clues · Pagination of an infographic or dashboard, Clarifying data refresh requirements, Visual hierarchy in a visualisation, Clarity of message in a visualisation and more

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VCE Data Analytics U4O1 Crossword: Data quality and testing visualisations to Recording and assessing project progress (Modules 85–105) 10 clues · Visual inspection of a data visualisation, Confirming a chart represents the data, Evaluation criteria, Time frame of an evaluation strategy and more

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VCE Data Analytics U4O1 Word Search: Manipulating data with software tools to Audience and developing infographics and dashboards (Modules 3–62) 21 words to find · Using a spreadsheet template, Writing a prompt that asks an AI tool to chart or summarise data, Checking an AI-made data representation against the source data, Using generative AI tools responsibly and more

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VCE Data Analytics U4O1 Word Search: Audience and developing infographics and dashboards to Recording and assessing project progress (Modules 63–105) 20 words to find · Pagination of an infographic or dashboard, Clarifying data refresh requirements, Visual hierarchy in a visualisation, Clarity of message in a visualisation and more

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VCE Data Analytics U4O2 Crossword: Why data security matters and types of threats and Data integrity and its consequences (Modules 1–25) 10 clues · Goals and objectives of medium and large organisations, Safeguarding business operations, Mitigating financial loss and reputational damage, Accidental threats to data and more

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VCE Data Analytics U4O2 Crossword: Data integrity and its consequences and Evaluating security with CIA and security controls (Modules 26–43) 10 clues · Assessing data against the six integrity characteristics, Consequence of diminished data integrity: loss of reputation, Consequence of diminished data integrity: poor decision-making, Consequence of diminished data integrity: financial loss and more

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VCE Data Analytics U4O2 Crossword: Evaluating security with CIA and security controls to Disaster recovery plans (Modules 44–79) 10 clues · Adaptive (risk-based) authentication, Physical security controls, Data loss prevention controls, Protecting data at rest and more

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VCE Data Analytics U4O2 Crossword: Disaster recovery plans to Victorian privacy and health records legislation (Modules 80–113) 10 clues · Disaster recovery plan feature: evacuation, Backup storage locations and the 3-2-1 rule, Disaster recovery plan feature: restoration, Disaster recovery plan feature: communication and more

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VCE Data Analytics U4O2 Word Search: Why data security matters and types of threats to Evaluating security with CIA and security controls (Modules 1–43) 22 words to find · Goals and objectives of medium and large organisations, Safeguarding business operations, Mitigating financial loss and reputational damage, Accidental threats to data and more

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VCE Data Analytics U4O2 Word Search: Evaluating security with CIA and security controls to Victorian privacy and health records legislation (Modules 44–113) 21 words to find · Adaptive (risk-based) authentication, Physical security controls, Data loss prevention controls, Protecting data at rest and more

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Years 7–8 Creating Digital Solutions Crossword: Defining and decomposing problems and Designing and tracing algorithms (Modules 3–47) 10 clues · Interviewing a user, Decomposing a problem into sub-problems, Decomposition diagrams, Non-functional requirements and more

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Years 7–8 Creating Digital Solutions Word Search: Defining and decomposing problems to Evaluating digital solutions (Modules 3–125) 21 words to find · Interviewing a user, Decomposing a problem into sub-problems, Decomposition diagrams, Non-functional requirements and more

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Years 9–10 Creating Digital Solutions Crossword: Defining and decomposing problems to Evaluating solutions, impact and innovation (Modules 6–132) 10 clues · Decomposing a problem into a hierarchy chart, Prioritising requirements, Truth tables for AND, OR and NOT, Logical operators in a flowchart decision and more

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Years 9–10 Creating Digital Solutions Word Search: Defining and decomposing problems to Evaluating solutions, impact and innovation (Modules 6–132) 20 words to find · Decomposing a problem into a hierarchy chart, Prioritising requirements, Truth tables for AND, OR and NOT, Logical operators in a flowchart decision and more

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VCE Applied Computing U1O2 Crossword: Requirements and design tools to Naming conventions and internal documentation (Modules 8–88) 10 clues · Writing an IPO chart for a program, Accessing record fields by index, Abstraction in OOP, Encapsulation in OOP and more

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VCE Applied Computing U1O2 Crossword: Naming conventions and internal documentation to Legal requirements and emerging trends (Modules 89–124) 10 clues · Explaining data and code structures with comments, Docstrings for functions and classes, Combining validation checks in a reusable function, Breakpoints in an editor and more

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VCE Applied Computing U1O2 Word Search: Requirements and design tools to Legal requirements and emerging trends (Modules 8–124) 21 words to find · Writing an IPO chart for a program, Accessing record fields by index, Abstraction in OOP, Encapsulation in OOP and more

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IGCSE Computer Science Paper 1 Crossword: 2.2 Methods of Error Detection (Modules 168–178) 10 clues · Checksum, Calculating a checksum, Checking a checksum at the receiver, What a checksum can and cannot detect and more

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IGCSE Computer Science Paper 1 Word Search: 2.2 Methods of Error Detection (Modules 168–188) 21 words to find · Checksum, Calculating a checksum, Checking a checksum at the receiver, What a checksum can and cannot detect and more

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IGCSE Computer Science Paper 2 Crossword: 7b Decomposition and Sub-systems (Modules 94–106) 10 clues · Sub-system, Sub-systems made of further sub-systems, Component parts of a problem: inputs, Component parts of a problem: processes and more

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IGCSE Computer Science Paper 2 Word Search: 7b Decomposition and Sub-systems (Modules 94–118) 21 words to find · Sub-system, Sub-systems made of further sub-systems, Component parts of a problem: inputs, Component parts of a problem: processes and more

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ACARA Digital Technologies Years 7–8 Crossword: Wired and Wireless Networks and Representing Text, Images and Sound (Modules 69–124) 10 clues · Wired vs wireless: mobility and convenience, Choosing a network type for a scenario, TCP/IP: the internet's core protocols, Redundant routes keep a network working and more

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ACARA Digital Technologies Years 7–8 Crossword: Acquiring and Storing Data and Analysing and Visualising Data (Modules 261–300) 10 clues · Keeping an untouched copy of the raw data, Flagging duplicates with a COUNTIF formula, Flagging out-of-range values with IF and OR, Fixing spelling variations with Find and Replace and more

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ACARA Digital Technologies Years 7–8 Crossword: Analysing and Visualising Data and Structured Data and Queries (Modules 331–360) 10 clues · Describing a trend in a sentence with evidence, Investigating a dataset from question to conclusion, Attributes of an object, Attributes of an event and more

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ACARA Digital Technologies Years 7–8 Word Search: Wired and Wireless Networks and Representing Text, Images and Sound (Modules 69–152) 21 words to find · Wired vs wireless: mobility and convenience, Choosing a network type for a scenario, TCP/IP: the internet's core protocols, Redundant routes keep a network working and more

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ACARA Digital Technologies Years 7–8 Word Search: Acquiring and Storing Data and Analysing and Visualising Data (Modules 261–324) 20 words to find · Keeping an untouched copy of the raw data, Flagging duplicates with a COUNTIF formula, Flagging out-of-range values with IF and OR, Fixing spelling variations with Find and Replace and more

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ACARA Digital Technologies Years 7–8 Word Search: Analysing and Visualising Data to Algorithms, Flowcharts and Pseudocode (Modules 331–411) 21 words to find · Describing a trend in a sentence with evidence, Investigating a dataset from question to conclusion, Attributes of an object, Attributes of an event and more

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ACARA Digital Technologies Years 9–10 Crossword: Acquiring and Validating Data (Modules 255–329) 10 clues · Validation rules on an online survey form, Choosing a logging interval for sensor readings, Recording sensor readings in a spreadsheet with timestamps, Sensor errors: faults, calibration and noise and more

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ACARA Digital Technologies Years 9–10 Crossword: Acquiring and Validating Data and Analysing and Visualising Data (Modules 333–377) 10 clues · Finding duplicates with COUNTIF, Splitting one column into several with Text to Columns, Deciding what to do with an outlier, Keeping a cleaning log and more

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ACARA Digital Technologies Years 9–10 Crossword: Cyber Security Threats and Vulnerabilities (Modules 810–827) 10 clues · Zero-day vulnerabilities, Outdated versions of software, Default credentials and insecure settings, Improper credential management and more

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ACARA Digital Technologies Years 9–10 Crossword: Cyber Security Threats and Vulnerabilities and Privacy Principles and Digital Footprints (Modules 876–944) 10 clues · Brute-forcing a Caesar cipher in Python, Vigenere cipher in Python, The XOR cipher, Base64 is encoding, not encryption and more

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ACARA Digital Technologies Years 9–10 Word Search: Data Compression and Acquiring and Validating Data (Modules 226–329) 20 words to find · Exporting audio at different quality levels in Audacity, How video compression reuses unchanged parts of frames, Streaming media and adjusting bitrate, Common compressed file formats and what they are used for and more

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ACARA Digital Technologies Years 9–10 Word Search: Acquiring and Validating Data and Analysing and Visualising Data (Modules 333–412) 20 words to find · Finding duplicates with COUNTIF, Splitting one column into several with Text to Columns, Deciding what to do with an outlier, Keeping a cleaning log and more

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ACARA Digital Technologies Years 9–10 Word Search: Cyber Security Threats and Vulnerabilities (Modules 810–859) 21 words to find · Zero-day vulnerabilities, Outdated versions of software, Default credentials and insecure settings, Improper credential management and more

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ACARA Digital Technologies Years 9–10 Word Search: Cyber Security Threats and Vulnerabilities and Privacy Principles and Digital Footprints (Modules 860–944) 20 words to find · Frequency analysis, Transposition cipher: rail fence, CODE and CHAR functions in a spreadsheet, The MOD function in a spreadsheet and more

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QCE Digital Solutions Unit 1 Crossword: Algorithms and Programming Techniques and Programmed Solutions (Modules 158–380) 10 clues · input keyword, if-then-else block, Repeat-Until loop, define: defining a function and more

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QCE Digital Solutions Unit 1 Word Search: User Experiences and Interfaces to Programmed Solutions (Modules 82–380) 20 words to find · Recording pitfalls and useful solutions in an existing interface, Known user, User characteristics, Age appropriateness of information and more

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Crossword: Digital Methods for Exchanging Data to Prototype Digital Data Exchanges (Modules 127–333) 10 clues · How the front-end and back-end exchange data, Data exchange, Data interface, Integrity and more

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Word Search: Digital Methods for Exchanging Data to Prototype Digital Data Exchanges (Modules 127–401) 21 words to find · How the front-end and back-end exchange data, Data exchange, Data interface, Integrity and more