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How you’d get it

How you’d get this certificate

  1. Zavmo teaches you. You learn the units one-to-one with an AI tutor, on your own work.
  2. You register with an approved centre. That is a college, training provider or employer NCFE has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
  3. The centre assesses, and NCFE awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from NCFE.

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01What it is

This qualification has been allocated UCAS points. Please refer to the UCAS website for further details of the points allocation and the most up-to-date information.

These are the units NCFE 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 NCFE. It does the teaching and the mapping. NCFE sets this qualification and awards it, and a qualified human assessor makes the assessment decision.

02The units

What each unit actually teaches you to do

Coding requirements and planning Real unit · NCFE
This unit covers software project management methodologies, focusing on their aims, roles, responsibilities, and division of work. You'll understand requirements capture, documentation, risk management, and how teamwork contributes to effective software delivery.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand software methodologies in project management
  • Understand the capture and documentation of requirements 3 Understand risk management 4 Understand how teamwork contributes to effective delivery of software
Implementation of coding Real unit · NCFE
This unit provides knowledge of coding tools and key concepts, including selecting appropriate development environments. You'll learn to write and debug code, understand source code control, and apply fundamental programming constructs effectively.

What you'll be able to do

  • 1 Understand tools used in coding 2 Understand key concepts of coding3 Be able to debug and write code
Software testing Real unit · NCFE
You'll study different levels, types, and methods of software testing, including black box and white box techniques. The unit also covers test-driven development principles and teaches you to identify and fix software bugs.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand different levels, types and methods of testing
  • Know about test driven development
  • Identify and fix a bug
Understand coding design Real unit · NCFE
You'll understand coding standards and the importance of good coding principles and practices. The unit covers coding reviews, database fundamentals, interface design principles, and the integration of security considerations at the development stage.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the use of coding standards
  • Understand the purpose of good coding principles and practices 3 Know about coding reviews4 Understand databases5 Understand the principles of interface design6 Understand the importance of building security by design into software at the development stage
Understand deployment, maintenance and configuration management Real unit · NCFE
This unit equips learners with knowledge of software deployment processes, maintenance practices, and configuration management. You'll understand deployment strategies, maintenance activities, and the use of version control systems within software development.

What you'll be able to do

  • Know about deployment
  • Understand maintenance in coding 3 Understand configuration management and version control systems
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03The standards

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.

  • Manage DevOps activities

    Standard
04Where it leads

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.

Showing 6 roles, drawn from 18 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

Junior QA Tester

This work can lead to test automation, senior QA analyst roles, or into QA management further down the line.

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05The credits

The credits, and who awards them

Level 3 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by NCFE 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

Coding requirements and planningImplementation of codingSoftware testingUnderstand coding designUnderstand deployment, maintenance and configuration management

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 The Navigator · your what-if tutor Illustration
The Navigator Your plan for “Coding requirements and planning” assumes the same two people are free in March. What have you seen that makes you slightly uneasy about that?
You One of them has been pulled onto the migration twice already. Probably fine.
The Navigator That is the thread worth pulling. Let us build the version where it happens a third time and find the move that works either way.
The same lesson on the real thing: the conversation in the middle, the thinking ladder on the left, and the criteria each answer is evidencing on the right.
  • Bring your own plan Create

    For “Coding requirements and planning” 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.

  • Lead it Apply

    “Understand deployment, maintenance and configuration management” 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 Coding requirements and planning, one of this qualification's own units.

Coding requirements and planning Level 3

Applied to your work in any of these jobs

Which job do you mean?
Junior QA TesterSoftware Testing AssistantAssociate QA EngineerAssociate QA AnalystLead Software Testing AssistantSenior Software Testing Assistant

This unit covers software project management methodologies, focusing on their aims, roles, responsibilities, and division of work. Learners will understand requirements capture, documentation, risk management, and how teamwork contributes to effective software delivery.

How the thinking builds
  1. 1 Remember
  2. 2 Understand
  3. 3 Apply
  4. 4 Analyse
  5. 5 Evaluate
  6. 6 Create
An illustration of a Zavmo lesson, built from this role’s own route. The unit, its objective and every criterion above are the awarding body’s own words, not an example.

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Your Plan Illustration

Built for NCFE Level 3 Certificate in Coding Practices

5 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by NCFE.

  1. Coding requirements and planning
  2. Implementation of coding
  3. Software testing
  4. Understand coding design
  5. Understand deployment, maintenance and configuration management
These are the real units of this credential, in its own order. Nothing here is marked done, because this plan has not been started by anyone yet. Yours would fill in as you go.

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