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The scenario was actually quite clean and short, there was not a lot of information to cover in the exhibits. I managed to complete all questions but didn’t have any time left for review. Overall, it was not a difficult paper. I hope for good news in six week’s time.
I couldn’t get round the questions about behavioural changes and board members and information, as I didn’t understand how that would have to change for the adaption, should this have been to get a listing?
Didn’t enjoy the paper didn’t use any models and thought it would have been more on pestle etc
Clean scenario, I lucked out as my background is in IT consultancy so was very comfortable with the topic. Overall well written case study but not a massive amount of the syllabus covered especially in models. Focused a lot on governance. Fingers crossed!
Need a miracle to pass the exam. It was my first attempt in professional exams. Not able to appraise the inv’t decision due to lack of time. A lot to learn from this paper especially time management…
I got 49% on this in Dec which had more bizarre questions i.e. PowerPoint slides etc – this time around felt much more straight forward
Finished the exam with 1 minute remaining. Completed 16 pages. Possibly my best performance yet. Hoping for a nice pass but you never know with these exams Fingers crossed
I struggled on the exact same question, believe it was question 3c.
Ended up waffling a bit. Hopefully picked up some marks from that.
3abc was hard for me self doubted most of the way through, did anyone understand the requirements?
Actually quite liked this exam which is a first for me!!! Hated the question about investment appraisal and the e-Marketing question was a gift, the rest of it was pretty straightforward. Hopefully it went as well as I think and I actually read the questions properly!
3 a. Responsibilities and activities to be carried out by CEO in order to operate Mieobed approach effectively. Something like that
b. – Benefits of mieobed to TT4U co. and employees
_ changes to teams structure below board level necessary for the mieobed approachWhat did you write in these questions. My answers were too common. I repeated my answers not knowing what else to write among these requirements.
This is my 2nd attempt. This paper was fairly okay for me. I was taking a lot of time attempting Q3. Able to solve 3b properly. However, for 3a and 3b, I just added some random answer on my own. I’m afraid I might repeat some answers though.
Did anyone applied SAF for for IOT and Government sector?
What were risks in 1 (a).
For new contracts being not awarded.
Retention of existing contracts.Bit of a weird exam with very few exhibits, I was never quite fully confident of what I was writing, but I’m hopeful that I did enough to pass.
There was literally no external analysis, which was annoying as that’s what suits me the most. Just a lot of internal stuff, with risks and a bit too much on reorganisation. But there have been far harder exams in the past.
If I remember correctly the questions were:
1a Risks of not being awarded new contracts, risks of not retaining current customers
1b Whether to move into internet of things or government contracts
1c Controls to maintain data security, ethical concerns about dislosing security breach2a Criticially evaluate business proposal for cloud computing
2b Explain the benefits of e-marketing to advertise new cloud service3a Explain to CEO how to implement new business structure
3b Write a letter to convince staff of benefits of this new model and what changes will happen
3c Board reorganistation suggestionsMy second attempt with SBL and I did not like questions at all.
Not enough details to make a structured answer for every question, had to repeat same things.
Mieobed approach was the most ridiculous question for me.I chose IOT approach as a viable option as for government, I discuss it uses but it would mean the co. would likely change to new strategy and not retaining old clients. As for 1 example.
1a The risks were okay – took the majority of them from the survey results. Noticed that some of the comments weren’t in line with the actual survey scores, but focused on the criticisms instead. Wasn’t sure how exactly to bring up the fact that the company was scoring well but being criticised regardless…
1b Thought this was decent, found enough points throughout the exhibits to link this back to the company. Didn’t use SAF though, since they both seemed suitable and feasible.
1c Wasn’t quite sure whether they wanted controls or how to test these controls. But couldn’t really think of ways to test their effectiveness beyond hiring a third party to test them.. Ethics wasn’t too bad, but tied myself in knots a bit since it wasn’t a definite data breach, just a possible one.
2a Think I did ok at best. Didn’t do any calculations since I barely had time as it is without figuring out sensitivities, which probably hurt my score.
2b Used the 6 I’s of e-marketing (some of them at least) to try and make some points, but was never quite sure if what I was saying was actually what they wanted.
3a At first I had no clue about this, but then I decided to use POPIT and to bang on about making sure staff are aware of changes and maybe involve them in the decisions etc. No idea if I did well or not.
3b Not too bad, I think I made some okay points and wrote it in the correct manner
3c Again, wasn’t quite sure what they wanted, especially with the information suggestions, or quite how to link it to the Mieobed thing, but I made some points about having mode NEDs with industry experience or maybe creating an audit committee.
Hopefully I was on the right lines for the most part. Hopeful I’ve passed, but was hoping for a more straightforward exam with external analysis or a company struggling to adapt to a new country or something….
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