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2025 3 marks Short answer Secure Software Architecture (Year 12) Social and ethical issues
NESA 2025 HSC Software Engineering exam (online) - Marking Guidelines
A food delivery service offers prepackaged meals tailored to different dietary preferences, for example, vegetarian and gluten-free. It has developed a website for customers to place orders. The website is ready for testing and feedback. The website includes: a menu that dynamically updates based on meal availability; user accounts where customers can track deliveries and manage subscriptions; a backend that processes orders and payments, updates stock and communicates with the delivery team. (a) Outline potential social and ethical issues associated with the use of this website. (3 marks)
Marking criteria
3: Outlines relevant social and ethical issues. 2: Outlines ONE social or ethical issue OR identifies relevant issues. 1: Identifies ONE relevant issue.
Sample answer
The website will need to ensure payment and address data is appropriately secured and accessible only to authorised personnel. It also needs to ensure that pages can be viewed in a wide variety of languages and that the information about dishes displayed is accurate and representative of the product.