Q22 (b) (2025) Enterprise Computing

An insurance company hires a project team to develop a system that manages the personal information of customers and employees, customer claims and business contracts. The data will be stored and accessed on a cloud-based server and backed up locally.

Justify TWO methods that the company can use to maintain the security of the data. (3 marks)

Clues in the scenario. The data is sensitive: personal details, claims and contracts. It is stored and reached on a cloud server and backed up locally, so your reasons should use those facts.

Marking criteria
Criteria	Marks
Justifies TWO methods that the company can use to maintain the security of the data	3
Outlines TWO methods that the company can use	2
Identifies ONE method that the company can use	1

The content it draws on

Creating data visualisations

Look into the ways an organisation can keep its data protected, such as controlling who can see it, scrambling it and blocking attacks, and put those ways into practice.

How it connects to the question. The content point is about choosing and using ways to keep data protected. This question asks you to pick two of those ways and argue why they suit an insurance company that keeps sensitive data in the cloud.

The learning outcome EC-12-03

Explain and judge how a new enterprise system keeps data safe and secure while it is stored, collected and worked with.

“maintain the security of the data” points to safely and securely. The question is about keeping data secure, which is the heart of this outcome.
“stored and accessed on a cloud-based server” points to stored. The cloud server and local backups are where the data is stored, so your methods should protect it there.
“Justify” points to evaluates. Judging why a method suits the company is the 'evaluate' part of the outcome.

Proposed link. NESA has not published the outcome mapping for this paper yet.

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