Q17 (b) (2025) Enterprise Computing

A coffee shop chain has branches in all major cities in Australia. It collects a large volume of sales data as well as geographic and demographic data from each of its coffee shop branches. The chain plans to use a cloud-based data warehouse for storage and for future analysis.

Explain how the advancement of hardware can affect the processing of data from the data warehouse for this coffee shop chain. (3 marks)

Clues in the scenario. The chain has a huge amount of sales, location and customer data coming from branches all over Australia. Faster hardware matters most when there is that much data from that many places.

The content it draws on

Data visualisation / Using data to tell a story

Look at how changes in computer hardware and software over time have changed what businesses can do when they analyse data.

How it connects to the question. The content point is about how improving technology changes data analytics. This question narrows it to hardware only, and to one business with a very large cloud data warehouse.

The learning outcome EC-12-06

Students break down how new and improved technologies have changed the computer systems that businesses rely on.

“advancement of hardware” points to innovative technologies. Faster, more powerful hardware is one kind of innovative technology.
“can affect the processing of data” points to have influenced. The question wants the change that hardware causes, not just a list of parts.
“data warehouse for this coffee shop chain” points to enterprise computing systems. The chain's cloud data warehouse is the enterprise system being changed.

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Name a hardware advancementNot yet
Say how processing changesNot yet
Link to the chainNot yet

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