How you’d get this certificate
- Zavmo teaches you. You learn the units one-to-one with an AI tutor, on your own work.
- You register with an approved centre. That is a college, training provider or employer OTHM Qualifications has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
- The centre assesses, and OTHM Qualifications awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from OTHM Qualifications.
The OTHM Level 5 Diploma in Information Technology equips learners with foundational knowledge and skills in IT, preparing them for careers and further education in the field.
These are the units OTHM Qualifications 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. Zavmo teaches towards them on your own work.
Zavmo is not an awarding body, is not an approved centre, and is not affiliated with OTHM Qualifications. It does the teaching and the mapping. OTHM Qualifications sets this qualification and awards it, and a qualified human assessor makes the assessment decision.
What each unit actually teaches you to do
Advanced Systems Analysis & Design Real unit · OTHM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the role of system analysis and design in an organisation.
- Understand the steps needed in system analysis and design.
- Create documented system requirements.
- Develop functional and data models for a software system.
Database Systems Real unit · OTHM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand basic concepts of database systems.
- Design and develop a fully functional relational database system to meet a business need.
- Test database systems and produce required documentation.
IT Project Management Real unit · OTHM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Analyse business objectives to determine potential projects.
- Devise a project plan using relevant project management tools and models.
- Manage an IT project.
- Evaluate the project outcomes.
Management Information Systems Real unit · OTHM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the information system requirements of organisations.
- Understand the use of an information system to produce management information.
- Develop and implement a management information system for an organisation.
Network Information Systems Real unit · OTHM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of networking.
- Understand network management protocols and standards.
- Plan, design, setup and configure a network system.
Software Engineering Real unit · OTHM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand modelling languages and their benefits.
- Design and implement a series of UML class diagrams.
- Understand the management of software testing using different strategies.
- Develop a solution using object-oriented programming.
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The national standards these units are built against
What the job actually needs, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
- Standard
Establish and lead IT projects
The jobs these credits are mapped to
A qualification is never a dead end here. Each of these is a job record this qualification is a mapped route into.
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Showing 6 roles, drawn from 12 job records mapped to this qualification. Near-identical records are folded together, and each row says how many it stands for.
Where this can lead
IT Manager
This role can lead to Director of IT or Head of Technology Operations, running IT strategy at a wider level. It can also lead to Chief Information Officer, or to a technical path such as Principal Architect.
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The credits, and who awards them
Level 5 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by OTHM Qualifications rather than by Zavmo. 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 have covered and what is next.
What you would be collecting
Advanced Systems Analysis & DesignDatabase SystemsIT Project ManagementManagement Information SystemsNetwork Information SystemsSoftware Engineering
Each one is a real unit registered against this qualification.
How you’d practise it
You don’t watch this. You do it.
You are not assessed on remembering this. You are assessed on applying it, analysing it, evaluating it and producing something. So that is what the practice is: projects, role play and your own live cases, with a tutor in the room.
The Navigator · your what-if tutor Illustration - Bring your own plan Create
For “IT Project Management” you bring the plan you are actually working on, not a case study. Zavmo pulls on the assumptions in it until the weak one shows.
- Map a live decision Analyse
“Advanced Systems Analysis & Design” runs on a decision you are facing now. Zavmo maps it with you and shows what the second-order effect looks like before you find out the slow way.
- Lead it Apply
“Management Information Systems” is practised on the team you actually have. You talk through the call you are about to make, and Zavmo makes you say it the way you would say it to them.
How you would learn this
One to one, on the work you already do
A tutor sets the task against your own job and marks the reasoning, at your pace. There is no cohort to fall behind.
A lesson from Advanced Systems Analysis & Design, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
This unit provides learners with a deep understanding of system analyst and designer activities and the ability to apply current techniques.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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Built for OTHM Level 5 Diploma in Information Technology
6 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by OTHM Qualifications.
- Advanced Systems Analysis & Design
- Database Systems
- IT Project Management
- Management Information Systems
- Network Information Systems
- Software Engineering
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