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- 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 6 Diploma in Information Technology is designed to provide learners with advanced knowledge and skills in Information Technology, qualifying them for junior to middle management roles and progression to further study or employment.
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, and work done here is recognised as prior learning under the agreements we hold.
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.
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What each unit actually teaches you to do
Advanced Computer Networks Real unit · OTHM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the concepts of servers, clients, and processes.
- Create a client/server model in a Linux system with User Datagram Protocol (UDP), Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and Application Layer protocols.
- Design and configure a secure network for a corporate environment.
Advanced Data Analytics Real unit · OTHM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the theoretical foundation of data analytics used in business decision-making.
- Understand issues in preparing a large data set for use in an applied analytical model.
- Apply a range of descriptive analytic and/or statistical techniques to convert data into actionable insight.
Advanced Database Management Systems Real unit · OTHM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand different types of database management systems.
- Apply data analysis and database design techniques.
- Develop a secured and functional database to meet client and system requirements.
Computers, Society and Law Real unit · OTHM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand ethical concerns relating to Information Technology activities.
- Understand the legislative environment relating to Information Technology activities.
- Understand common types of computer-oriented crimes.
Computing Projects Real unit · OTHM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Plan an E-Commerce project.
- Design and implement an E-Commerce solution.
- Develop a mobile application.
Management Information Systems Real unit · OTHM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how IT systems support organisational functions.
- Understand the role of information systems in supporting value-added change within organisations.
- Understand the use of information systems to support organisational strategy.
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
Create and Manage the Optimal Data Environment and Data Structures
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 118 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
Advanced Analytics Manager
This work can lead to managing a team of analysts, or to a lead analyst role acting as the main analytics contact for a major site or business unit.
See the whole journeyThe credits, and who awards them
Level 6 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 Computer NetworksAdvanced Data AnalyticsAdvanced Database Management SystemsComputers, Society and LawComputing ProjectsManagement Information Systems
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 “Computing Projects” 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 Data Analytics” 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
“Advanced Database Management 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 Computer Networks, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
This unit supports learners to develop a critical understanding of relevant and modern concepts in networking technologies within the IT industry, focusing on detection of threats, vulnerabilities, and network security management.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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Built for OTHM Level 6 Diploma in Information Technology
6 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by OTHM Qualifications.
- Advanced Computer Networks
- Advanced Data Analytics
- Advanced Database Management Systems
- Computers, Society and Law
- Computing Projects
- Management Information Systems
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