ABMA Education Ltd · RQF Level 6
ABMA Level 6 Diploma in Computer Engineering (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
The Level 6 diploma in computer engineering is for practitioners in the digital technology field. The qualification includes computer aided design, distributed systems, and cloud computing. Learners will gain skills applicable to computer engineering roles.
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.
Cloud Computing and Operating SystemsReal unit · ABMA Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Plan and architect a cloud computing environment for an organisation, considering factors such as security, scalability, and cost.
- Manage a cloud environment on a tactical basis, including tasks such as resource allocation, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
- Manage a cloud environment on a strategic basis, including tasks such as capacity planning, security audits, and disaster recovery planning.
- Understand how to specify and deploy purpose-built custom operating system environments tailored to specific cloud workloads.
- Plan and manage the provision of file system services in the cloud, including considerations for data storage, backup, and recovery.
Computer Aided DesignReal unit · ABMA Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Calculate properties of electrical circuits, including voltage, current, resistance, and power.
- Perform calculations to confirm the correct operation of power lines, ensuring they can handle the required current and voltage levels.
- Perform calculations to confirm the correct operation of signal lines, ensuring signal integrity and minimal loss.
- Understand how to translate logical circuit designs, such as those created using schematic capture software, into physical layouts suitable for PCB fabrication.
- Design physical components, such as enclosures and mounting brackets, within a virtual environment using CAD software.
Data Centre TechnologyReal unit · ABMA Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Plan a project to deploy resources effectively in a data centre environment.
- Architect an enterprise network to meet specified requirements.
- Understand how to manage data centre security to protect data and systems.
- Deploy storage provision to a network to meet organisational needs.
Distributed and Concurrent SystemsReal unit · ABMA Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to architect distributed applications, considering factors such as scalability, fault tolerance, and data consistency.
- Develop distributed applications using appropriate technologies and frameworks, such as message queues, remote procedure calls, and distributed databases.
- Select an appropriate hardware platform for a concurrent system, considering factors such as processing power, memory capacity, and network bandwidth.
- Manage a platform for running distributed applications, including tasks such as deployment, monitoring, and scaling.
Embedded and Digital Systems EngineeringReal unit · ABMA Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Develop software that runs without an operating system, often referred to as bare-metal programming, for embedded systems.
- Understand how to write a high-level language compiler, including lexical analysis, parsing, semantic analysis, and code generation.
- Understand the fundamental workings of an operating system, including process management, memory management, file system management, and input/output management.
- Write device drivers for an operating system, enabling communication between the operating system and hardware devices.
Network and Mobile ComputingReal unit · ABMA Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to architect a logical network, including addressing schemes, routing protocols, and network segmentation.
- Understand how to architect a physical network, including cabling, network devices, and network topology.
- Understand how to architect protocol-specific networks, such as those using TCP/IP, UDP, or other protocols.
- Understand how to manage a network migration, including planning, testing, and implementation.
- Interface between different physical network standards, such as Ethernet, Wi-Fi, and cellular.
- Understand how to link networks over a wide area, using technologies such as VPNs, leased lines, and the internet.
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.
VLSI Design and Signal ProcessingReal unit · ABMA Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to apply signal processing theory and analysis to relevant problems.
- Understand how to develop digital chip designs on Digital Signal Processors (DSP) and Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) platforms.
- Produce Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) designs according to industry standards.
- Understand the process of fabrication of a VLSI design, including the key stages and considerations.
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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.
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Where these credits take you
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Where this can lead
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Skills it covers
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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.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
This unit provides knowledge to plan, architect, and manage cloud computing environments. Learners will consider security, scalability, cost, and resource management, including deployment of custom operating system environments and file system services.
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for ABMA Level 6 Diploma in Computer Engineering (QCF)
8 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by ABMA Education Ltd.
- Cloud Computing and Operating Systems
- Computer Aided Design
- Data Centre Technology
- Distributed and Concurrent Systems
- Embedded and Digital Systems Engineering
- Network and Mobile Computing
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.
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Why it sticks
Most courses stop at remembering
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- 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
- 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
- 4AnalyseThe Analyst
- 3ApplyThe Coach
- 2UnderstandThe Connector
- 1RememberThe Builder
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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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