ABE · RQF Level 7

ABE Level 7 Extended Diploma in Enterprise Networks (QCF)

You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.

LevelRQF Level 7
Total credits120
Guided learning415 hours
Units in this qualification6

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What you’ll learn

What each unit actually teaches you to do

The Level 7 Extended Diploma in Enterprise Networks allows learners to develop advanced knowledge of enterprise network systems. It covers topics such as virtualisation environments, IT forensics, and IT infrastructure security. It is suited for individuals in the digital technology sector seeking to enhance their expertise.

These are the units ABE registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated, and every one you earn is yours to keep.

IT ForensicsReal unit · ABE

You'll gain knowledge of IT forensics methodologies, legal and ethical considerations, and investigative tools. The unit enables planning and implementing professional IT forensics investigations and validating outcomes and processes.

What you'll be able to do

Understand the methodologies used in IT forensics investigations.
Understand the essential steps involved in conducting IT forensics.
Plan a professional IT forensics investigation, considering relevant legal and ethical considerations.
Implement a professional IT forensics investigation, following established procedures and best practises.
Validate the outcomes of an IT forensic investigation, ensuring accuracy and reliability.
Validate the processes used in an IT forensic investigation, ensuring adherence to standards and protocols.

IT Infrastructure SecurityReal unit · ABE

This unit covers IT infrastructure security design principles, including defence in depth and least privilege. You'll learn to design, implement, and manage security solutions to protect IT infrastructure from various threats and vulnerabilities.

What you'll be able to do

Understand IT infrastructure security design principles, including defence in depth, least privilege, and security auditing.
Design an IT infrastructure security solution to protect against various threats and vulnerabilities.
Implement an IT infrastructure security solution, including configuring firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and access controls.
Manage an IT infrastructure security solution, including monitoring security logs, responding to security incidents, and performing vulnerability assessments.

Networked SystemsReal unit · ABE

You'll develop an understanding of network concepts, design practices, and system solutions. The unit covers planning, designing, implementing, testing, and managing networked systems with attention to security, scalability, and redundancy.

What you'll be able to do

Understand current network concepts and design practices, including protocols, topologies, and security considerations.
Understand the range of network system solutions, including hardware, software, and cloud-based options.
Plan a networked system to meet specified requirements.
Design a networked system based on the planned requirements, considering scalability, security, and performance.
Implement a networked system according to the design.
Test the implemented networked system to ensure it meets the specified requirements.
Plan for the management of a networked system, including monitoring, maintenance, and security.

Professional Issues in ITReal unit · ABE

This unit explores the impact of legislation, societal implications, and ethical considerations in IT. You'll also study employment law, human resource management policies, and strategic change management relevant to computing and information systems.

What you'll be able to do

Understand the impact of National and Global legislation involved in computing and information systems development, including data protection and intellectual property rights.
Understand the societal implications of computing and information systems and their development, including ethical considerations and potential biases.
Understand the importance of ethics in computing and information systems environments, including professional codes of conduct and responsible innovation.
Understand the impact of national and global employment law and human resource management policies in computing environments, including diversity and inclusion.
Understand approaches to strategic change management for computing and information systems projects, including risk assessment and stakeholder engagement.

Research methods for businessReal unit · ABE

It teaches you to understand and apply social research methods and methodologies in business contexts. You'll develop and plan research projects from qualitative and quantitative perspectives, including evaluating ethical considerations.

What you'll be able to do

Understand social research methods in the context of business and management
Understand research methodologies that underpin business and management research
Develop research projects from qualitative and quantitative standpoints
Plan a research project
Understand management and business theory / literature
Carry out a research project on a specific business and management issue
Design data collection surveys from qualitative and quantitative perspectives

Virtualisation EnvironmentsReal unit · ABE

You'll study virtualisation strategies, approaches, and solutions, including their benefits and influencing factors. The unit teaches you to plan, design, implement, evaluate, and manage virtualisation environments based on specified requirements.

What you'll be able to do

Understand strategies and approaches for virtualisation environments.
Understand the range of virtualisation solutions available.
Plan a virtualisation environment to meet specified requirements.
Design a virtualisation environment based on the planned requirements.
Implement a virtualisation environment according to the design.
Evaluate the performance and effectiveness of the implemented virtualisation environment.
Plan for the on-going management of a virtualisation environment, including maintenance, updates, and security.

The honest bit

You’ve started things before

Most courses were built for a room full of people who aren’t you. A cohort moves on whether or not your week allowed it, and by the third week the thing you’re behind on becomes the reason you stop opening it.

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And you only pay once you start learning. Searching and planning are free, and you can cancel any time — so the cost of finding out is an afternoon, not a year.

Your passport

Every credit is a stamp you keep

Level 7 credits are regulated. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you’ve earned and what’s next.

IT ForensicsIT Infrastructure SecurityNetworked SystemsProfessional Issues in ITResearch methods for businessVirtualisation Environments

Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.

Who’d teach you this

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Where this connects

Where these credits take you

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Where this can lead

International Virtualisation Specialist

Your journey here is what you make it. We provide the tools, the challenges, and the support, but your curiosity and drive will ultimately shape your path. We're excited to see where you take it.

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Opens the roleInternational Virtualisation SpecialistOne of the jobs this qualification is a route intoSee the role →Opens the roleSenior Network Optimisation SpecialistOne of the jobs this qualification is a route intoSee the role →Opens the roleInternational Head of Networks ManagerOne of the jobs this qualification is a route intoSee the role →Opens the roleGlobal IT Infrastructure DirectorOne of the jobs this qualification is a route into · 1 near-identical record folded inSee the role →Opens the roleSenior International Network EngineerOne of the jobs this qualification is a route intoSee the role →Opens the roleDirector of Network Engineering & OperationsOne of the jobs this qualification is a route into · 1 near-identical record folded inSee the role →Future FluencyAll ten future skillsSee how every unit is contextualised by the tenExplore →

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How you’ll actually learn this

One-to-one, on your own real work

A qualification is usually something done to you: sit the class, sit the exam, hope it sticks. Here it’s the opposite. You learn it one-to-one with a companion, on your own real work, and you keep going until you can use it, not just recall it.

One-to-one, on your real workNo lectures, no past-papers. Every unit is practised on the actual tasks your job throws at you, a tutor beside you, not a video in front of you.

Taught to the top, not the testMost courses stop at remembering. Your companion keeps climbing: analysing, judging, creating. That’s the part a machine can’t do for you.

Credits you keep, a map that continuesEvery unit is regulated and yours for good. The day you finish, Zavmo already knows the next role your new credits open.

IT ForensicsLevel 7

Applied to your work in any of these jobs

Which job do you mean?

International Virtualisation Specialist Senior Network Optimisation Specialist International Head of Networks Manager Global IT Infrastructure Director Senior International Network Engineer Director of Network Engineering & Operations

Learners will gain knowledge of IT forensics methodologies, legal and ethical considerations, and investigative tools. The unit enables planning and implementing professional IT forensics investigations and validating outcomes and processes.

How the thinking builds

Remember
Understand
Apply
Analyse
Evaluate
Create

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Your PlanIllustration

Built for ABE Level 7 Extended Diploma in Enterprise Networks (QCF)

6 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by ABE.

IT Forensics
IT Infrastructure Security
Networked Systems
Professional Issues in IT
Research methods for business
Virtualisation Environments

These are the real units of this credential, in its own order. Nothing here is marked done, because this plan has not been started by anyone yet. Yours would fill in as you go.

One to one, not one to many

No two people run this the same way

A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.

Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.

See how you learn, free. Eight questions, no sign-up. A directional taster; the diagnostic inside Zavmo goes deeper and keeps adapting.

Why it sticks

Most courses stop at remembering

There’s a well-known ladder of how deeply you learn something, called Bloom’s Taxonomy. Most courses get you up the first two rungs: you remember some facts, you pass a test, you forget it. Real skill lives at the top. Judging, deciding, creating. And this isn’t a generic ladder: every rung has a named Zavmo tutor who walks you up it.

6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
4AnalyseThe Analyst
3ApplyThe Coach
2UnderstandThe Connector
1RememberThe Builder

Where most courses leave you Where Zavmo takes you

Why this matters: AI can already remember and understand for you. What it can’t do is take your real problem and judge the right call. So the only learning worth paying for is the learning that takes you to the top. That’s exactly what a tutor doing it with you, on your real work, is for.

The value

Why the companion is worth £70 a month

You’re not paying for the units. They’re regulated, and the same wherever you earn them. You’re paying for the one thing that decides whether you actually get there: a companion that makes them stick, on your real work.

That is one-to-one on this qualification, every day, on the work you already do, for £70 a month. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it. Billed monthly, cancel any time and billing stops.

Earned on your own work, taught to the top.

Everything you just read, learned one-to-one on the job you already do. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it.

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