ATHE Ltd · RQF Level 5
ATHE Level 5 Diploma in IT Infrastructure Management Services
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 5
- Total credits120
- Guided learning720 hours
- Units in this qualification6
Awarded by ATHE Ltd · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
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These are the units ATHE 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.
Designing and Mmanaging Distributed Enterprise Server IinfrastructureReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Manage a multi-site enterprise environment.
- Manage large scale enterprise deployments.
- Administer and manage an enterprise web server.
- Manage content within an enterprise environment.
- Prevent data loss during system failures.
Developing Automation Tools for Managing Enterprise InfrastructureReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Use automation tools in PowerShell to manage enterprise infrastructure.
- Use management tools for enterprise servers.
- Use management tools for automating server deployment.
- Automate tasks using PERL scripting.
- Use management tools for Linux/Unix based enterprise servers.
Managing Enterprise Storage EnvironmentsReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Manage an information storage environment
- Implement a highly resilient storage infrastructure
- Manage storage backups, archiving and security measures
- Create and implement business continuity and disaster recovery measures
- Manage scale out file servers
Managing and Monitoring Communication and Business Application InfrastructureReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Develop and manage enterprise email systems.
- Manage database servers within an enterprise environment.
- Manage business applications environment within an enterprise.
- Manage server monitoring infrastructure.
- Manage the design and architecture of an enterprise server farm.
Managing and Troubleshooting Complex Enterprise Network EnvironmentReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Manage complex routing configurations in enterprise networks.
- Manage complex routing concepts within enterprise networks.
- Manage complex switch configurations within enterprise networks.
- Identify network faults in a complex enterprise network environment.
- Troubleshoot network faults in a complex enterprise network environment.
VirtualisationReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the management of virtualisation technologies.
- Plan, deploy, and administer server virtualisation.
- Manage application virtualisation.
- Manage storage virtualisation.
- Manage network virtualisation with software defined networks.
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.
There’s no cohort here, and no timetable to fall behind. Before anything starts, Zavmo asks when you’re sharpest and how long you can realistically sit down for, then builds the sessions around those answers. A bad fortnight changes your pace. It doesn’t put you behind.
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 5 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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Where this can lead
Associate Virtualisation Administrator
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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 learners with the expertise to design and manage distributed enterprise server infrastructures. Learners will manage multi-site environments, large-scale deployments, enterprise web servers, content management, and implement data loss prevention strategies.
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for ATHE Level 5 Diploma in IT Infrastructure Management Services
6 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by ATHE Ltd.
- Designing and Mmanaging Distributed Enterprise Server Iinfrastructure
- Developing Automation Tools for Managing Enterprise Infrastructure
- Managing Enterprise Storage Environments
- Managing and Monitoring Communication and Business Application Infrastructure
- Managing and Troubleshooting Complex Enterprise Network Environment
- Virtualisation
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
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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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