Q2.
Company A provides Management Information Systems (MIS) to a group of schools. The MIS allows the schools to organise the timetable, classes, students and staff members at the school.
Rather than set up a server inside each school, Company A rents a bank of servers from Company B in a remote data centre.
Each member of staff at a school should only have access to the parts of the system which they need to carry out their job.
(a) Explain two advantages for Company A in having servers in the remote data centre instead of having a server at each school that they provide their software on.
(2)
(b) (i) It is found that a school staff member can see pupil data from another school that the staff member has no connection with.
State which principle of the Data Protection Act has been broken.
(1)
(ii) Company A has become concerned over the location servers they rent from Company B.
Explain why the location of the servers they rent from Company B might be a concern in relation to the Data Protection Act.
(1)
(c) Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of storing and maintaining files on remote data services instead of using local storage.
(4)
(Total 8 marks)