ABMA Education Ltd · RQF Level 6
ABMA Level 6 Diploma in Computing and Information Systems (QCF)
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 6
- Total credits125
- Guided learning168 hours
- Units in this qualification8
Awarded by ABMA Education Ltd · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
This Level 6 diploma is aimed at computing and information systems practitioners. It covers areas such as IT project management, organisational security, and data warehousing. Successful learners will develop skills and knowledge relevant to roles within the digital technology sector.
These are the units ABMA Education Ltd 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.
Data WarehousingReal unit · ABMA Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to architect a design for a data warehouse, considering factors such as data sources, data modelling, and data integration.
- Set up a data warehouse, including configuring hardware, installing software, and defining data schemas.
- Understand how to select appropriate storage technology for a data warehouse, considering factors such as performance, scalability, and cost.
- Understand how to develop data reporting systems that extract, transform, and present data from a data warehouse to meet business needs.
Enterprise ArchitectureReal unit · ABMA Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Select an appropriate enterprise architecture framework (e.g., TOGAF, Zachman) for an organisation.
- Document the current state architecture of an organisation.
- Develop a target state architecture that aligns with business strategy.
- Understand the importance of maintaining and evolving the enterprise architecture over time.
- Understand how to govern the implementation of the enterprise architecture.
- Understand how to use modelling techniques (e.g., UML, BPMN) to represent enterprise architecture components.
- Understand how to analyse architectural models to identify potential issues and opportunities.
- Develop strategic outputs, such as roadmaps and gap analyses, from the enterprise architecture.
- Communicate the enterprise architecture to stakeholders.
Enterprise Resource PlanningReal unit · ABMA Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Analyse the requirement and specification for enterprise resource planning within an organisation, including identifying business processes, data flows, and user needs.
- Understand the process of deploying an enterprise resource planning system, including planning, configuration, data migration, and user training.
- Develop reports to meet organisational reporting requirements, using tools such as report writers, dashboards, and data visualisation software.
- Understand how to customise an enterprise resource planning system and manage the process of customisation, including developing custom modules, modifying existing functionality, and managing version control.
IT Project ManagementReal unit · ABMA Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Define the scope and objectives of an IT project.
- Identify and engage stakeholders at the start of an IT project.
- Develop a project initiation document (PID) for an IT project.
- Understand the key stages involved in managing an IT project lifecycle.
- Understand how to apply project management methodologies to IT projects.
- Understand how to monitor and control project progress, including risk and issue management.
- Formally close down an IT project, including documentation and handover.
- Conduct a post-project review to identify lessons learned.
Mobile Device DevelopmentReal unit · ABMA Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Develop cross-platform software applications for mobile devices, taking into account different operating systems and device capabilities.
- Develop native software applications for mobile devices, utilising platform-specific features and APIs.
- Understand how to optimise application architecture for a mobile device, considering factors such as battery life, memory usage, and processing power.
- Develop compelling user interfaces for mobile devices, ensuring usability, accessibility, and a positive user experience.
- Understand the deployment of a mobile application within an enterprise, including security considerations, distribution methods, and management strategies.
Organisational SecurityReal unit · ABMA Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Assess an organisation's IT security needs and vulnerabilities.
- Develop a comprehensive IT security policy that aligns with organisational objectives and legal requirements.
- Understand how to implement security practices, including access controls, data encryption, and network security measures, according to the established policy.
- Understand how to provide security awareness training to employees.
- Implement processes for detecting, reporting, and responding to security incidents.
- Manage and contain security breaches effectively.
- Understand how to conduct regular security audits and penetration testing to identify weaknesses.
- Understand how to evaluate and improve an organisation’s security processes based on test results and incident analysis.
Scalable Web and E-CommerceReal unit · ABMA Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to architect a web platform, considering factors such as scalability, security, and performance.
- Understand how to perform capacity planning for a web platform, considering factors such as traffic volume, resource utilisation, and growth projections.
- Understand when to use different strategies for capacity and reliability improvements, such as load balancing, caching, and redundancy.
- Ensure the security of an e-commerce platform, including protecting against vulnerabilities such as SQL injection, cross-site scripting, and denial-of-service attacks.
- Understand how to integrate an e-commerce platform with a logistics system, including order management, inventory management, and shipping management.
Software Engineering, Algorithm Design and AnalysisReal unit · ABMA Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to develop formal requirements for software applications, using techniques such as use cases, user stories, and formal specifications.
- Test a software application against stated formal requirements, using techniques such as unit testing, integration testing, and system testing.
- Understand how to apply principles of algorithmic design to a software development project, including algorithm selection, algorithm analysis, and algorithm optimisation.
- Understand how to develop libraries of re-usable functions and data structures to promote code re-use and maintainability.
The honest bit
You’ve started things before
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Your passport
Every credit is a stamp you keep
Level 6 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.
Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.
Who’d teach you this
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Where these credits take you
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- Design and develop mobile applications for digital content
- Establish and lead IT projects
- Maintain IT project based documentation
Where this can lead
Enterprise Architect
Your journey as an Enterprise Architect at Zavmo is about continuous growth and increasing impact. We're committed to providing the opportunities, mentorship, and challenges you need to build a truly rewarding and influential career in technology. Where you go from here is really up to you and your ambition.
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Skills it covers
What the job actually needs. These are the standards the units are built against, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
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.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
This unit provides learners with knowledge of data warehousing principles. Learners will architect and set up data warehouses, select appropriate storage technologies, and develop data reporting systems to support business requirements.
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for ABMA Level 6 Diploma in Computing and Information Systems (QCF)
8 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by ABMA Education Ltd.
- Data Warehousing
- Enterprise Architecture
- Enterprise Resource Planning
- IT Project Management
- Mobile Device Development
- Organisational Security
and 2 more in the full unit list below.
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
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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