Last IT exams

Yay! No more IT ever! Sure, compsci at uni (if i make it =)), but thats not IT :p

Just had the last IT exams; extra paper this afternoon (I did 3 modules, the best 2 will count)... think I did ok in the first two, but I knew as I did it that I had messed up the first question of the third paper (about an electricity company and their databases, and men who go read the meters and fill out the readings on the forms...), so answered the following for question 4:

In the new system, the forms currently used by the meter readers will be replaced.

4 a) Describe one method that the electricity company could use to collect the meter readings. [5]

My answer: They could genetically engineer hundreds of soopa-oompa-loompas with the mental ability to remember, and recall on request, vast amounts of numeric data. They then send out these miniature workers they on tricycles to all their customers to read the meters.

4 b) Describe two advantages of your method of data collection over the original method. [4]

My Answer: 1: Because Willy Wonka has had oompa loompas enslaved in his factory for decades, they will be only too happy to donate their sperm and eggs for genetic experiments in return for their freedom.

2: Because they arent humans, they dont have any human rights, and because they are short you can stack them in little containers when they aren't out collecting data

4 c) It is proposed that customers will be encouraged to use electronic funds transfer (EFT). Describe two different ways in which EFT may be used by customers to pay electricity bills.

My answer: [Answered the question properly, followed by:] And, in case they have problems getting the money out of their customers, they will already have oompa loompa DNA and the genetic expertise, it would be easy enough for them to create some soopa-oompa-loompa thugs with freakishly large musclees, who they can send round to customers' houses and beat the money out of them.

I'm hoping the examiner will be so impressed that he'll give me the marks :)

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