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These are the units Pearson 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. Zavmo teaches towards them on your own work, and work done here is recognised as prior learning under the agreements we hold.
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What each unit actually teaches you to do
Big Data & Visualisation Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Examine big data and visualisation for decision making, including the characteristics of big data and the benefits of data visualisation.
- Investigate statistical and graphical techniques, tools and industry software solutions for big data and visualisation, including data mining, machine learning, and data analytics platforms.
- Demonstrate the use of industry software to manipulate data and prepare visual presentations for a given data set, including data cleaning, data transformation, and chart creation.
- Assess the role, responsibilities and challenges for data specialists, including data scientists, data engineers, and data analysts.
Cloud Fundamentals Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Examine the fundamentals of Cloud Computing, considering areas of application, architecture, and platform options available
- Design a suitable deployment model for a system to be hosted in the cloud, based on a given scenario and its specific requirements
- Explain different Cloud Service Providers’ (CSP) approaches to providing a cloud architecture framework, considering their suitability for various business uses
- Assess the technical challenges and potential risks inherent in migrating existing IT systems to the cloud environment, and propose mitigation strategies
Cyber Security Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Explore the nature of cybercrime, including different types of cybercrime and their impact.
- Investigate cyber threat actors, including their motivations, capabilities, and common attack methods.
- Investigate cyber security threats and hazards, including vulnerabilities, exploits, and attack vectors.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of information assurance concepts applied to ICT infrastructure, including security policies, access controls, and encryption.
- Investigate incident response methods to cyber security threats, including detection, containment, eradication, and recovery.
Data Analytics Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Discuss the theoretical foundations of data analytics and how they inform decision-making processes in management and business environments
- Apply a range of descriptive analytic techniques, utilising statistical methods, to convert raw data into actionable insights
- Investigate a range of predictive analytic techniques to discover new knowledge and forecast future events based on data analysis
- Demonstrate the application of prescriptive analytic methods to determine the best course of action for a given situation, based on data-driven insights
Database Design & Development Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Use an appropriate design tool to design a relational database system
- Ensure the database system addresses a substantial problem or need
- Develop a fully functional relational database system
- Base the system development on an existing system design
- Test the developed system against predefined user requirements
- Test the developed system against predefined system requirements
- Produce comprehensive technical documentation for the database system
- Produce clear and concise user documentation for the database system
Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Intelligent Systems Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Discuss the theoretical foundation of Artificial Intelligence and its impact on users and organisations
- Analyse the approaches, techniques and tools to deploy Intelligent Systems in an organisation
- Modify an AI-based system to improve how exhibits intelligence in response to a real-world problem
- Evaluate the technical and ethical challenges and opportunities of Intelligent Systems
Game Development Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Explore an identified market to determine its characteristics and potential
- Define the concept for a game based on research and analysis of the identified market
- Plan the development of a functional game prototype, outlining key stages and resources
- Develop a functional game prototype using industry-standard tools and techniques
- Implement the game prototype based on a defined project development plan
- Evaluate the principles, techniques and practice of video game development
- Evaluate project planning methodologies used in game development
- Evaluate the use of industry-standard tools in the development process
Innovation & Digital Transformation Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Explain the underlying context for digital innovation and market disruption that leads to business transformation, including the impact of emerging technologies and changing customer expectations.
- Explain the different types of digital transformation, including business model transformation, process transformation, and cultural transformation.
- Discuss the requirements for a successful digital transformation, including leadership support, employee engagement, and a clear vision.
- Evaluate the range of methods for protecting ideas as part of digital transformation strategies and their advantages and disadvantages, including patents, trademarks, and trade secrets.
Management in the Digital Economy Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Investigate different types of organisational structures and cultures prevalent in the digital economy sector
- Explore the role, impact, and influence of various stakeholders within a digital economy organisation
- Investigate digital-led approaches to management and leadership, including agile methodologies and remote team management
- Assess the relationship between motivation, organisational behaviour, performance, and reflective practice within a digital team environment
Networking Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Examine fundamental networking principles and the protocols that govern network communication
- Explain the function and operation of various networking devices within a network infrastructure
- Design efficient and effective networked systems to meet specific requirements
- Implement and diagnose networked systems, troubleshooting common network issues
Networking in the Cloud Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Examine commonplace networking principles used in a cloud infrastructure to support communication within a business context
- Explain the operation of various networking technologies within a cloud infrastructure, detailing their functions and interactions
- Design a comprehensive networking solution for a cloud-based system, tailored to meet the specific requirements of a given business use case
- Enhance the network performance of a cloud-based system developed for a given business use case, optimising for speed, reliability, and security
Principles of Animation Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Explain the fundamental principles and practices of animation
- Create animations using industry-standard tools and techniques
- Ensure animations meet the specific requirements outlined in a given brief
- Integrate a finished animation within a defined media product
- Ensure the animation is appropriately integrated in response to a brief
- Evaluate audience feedback received following the presentation of an animation within a defined media product
- Analyse audience responses to inform future animation projects
Professional Practice in the Digital Economy Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Explore the evolution of digital technologies and their impact on contemporary work environments
- Examine the importance of continuous professional development for achieving career success in the digital economy
- Demonstrate a range of transferable skills applicable to the digital workplace, including communication skills used for effective problem-solving
- Review and analyse ways in which feedback mechanisms can be used to support professional development planning and inform future roles within the workplace
Programming Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Define basic algorithms to carry out an operation and outline the process of programming an application to solve problems
- Explain the characteristics of procedural, object-orientated and event-driven programming to understand different programming paradigms
- Implement basic algorithms in code using an IDE to create functional programs
- Determine the debugging process and explain the importance of a coding standard to ensure code quality and maintainability
Project Management Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Explain the role and process of project management, including the project lifecycle, key stakeholders, and project governance.
- Describe the principles of project management and the tools available to assist the process, including planning, scheduling, risk management, and communication.
- Specify the elements of a project plan in terms of organisation and people, including roles and responsibilities, communication channels, and reporting structures.
- Create a project plan for a specified outcome, including defining project scope, setting objectives, and allocating resources.
Security Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Assess potential risks to IT security within an organisation
- Describe a range of IT security solutions available to mitigate identified risks
- Review mechanisms used to control organisational IT security, considering their effectiveness
- Manage organisational security by implementing and monitoring security measures
Software Development Lifecycles Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Describe different software development lifecycles (SDLCs) and their characteristics
- Explain the importance of conducting a thorough feasibility study prior to commencing a software development project
- Undertake a complete software development lifecycle, applying appropriate methodologies and techniques
- Discuss the suitability of various software behavioural design techniques for different project contexts
Website Design & Development Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Explain server technologies and management services associated with hosting websites
- Explain server technologies and management services associated with managing websites
- Categorise website technologies, tools and software used in website development
- Utilise appropriate website technologies, tools and techniques
- Apply good design principles to create a multipage website
- Create a Test Plan to systematically review the performance of a multipage website
- Use a Test Plan to systematically review the design of a multipage website
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
Deliver Data Driven Business Insights Using a Range of Data Sources
- Standard
Design and Implement Cloud Networks COPY
- Standard
Perform coding for simple business problems
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 172 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
Associate Cloud Network Specialist
This work can lead to roles such as senior cloud network specialist, taking on more complex projects, or staff cloud network engineer, working on core network infrastructure.
See the whole journeyThe credits, and who awards them
Level 4 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by Pearson Education Ltd 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
Big Data & VisualisationCloud FundamentalsCyber SecurityData AnalyticsDatabase Design & DevelopmentFundamentals of Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Intelligent SystemsGame DevelopmentInnovation & Digital Transformation
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 “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
“Big Data & Visualisation” 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 in the Digital Economy” 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.
What you leave holding
The standards this credential builds, in the shape the product keeps them
Nothing here is marked learned. There is no learner on a public page, so the map shows what the qualification covers rather than what anybody has done.
- Deliver Data Driven Business Insights Using a Range of Data Sources
- Design and Implement Cloud Networks COPY
- Perform coding for simple business problems
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 Big Data & Visualisation, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
Learners will examine the characteristics of big data and the benefits of data visualisation for decision making. The unit includes investigating statistical and graphical techniques, using industry software to manipulate data and prepare visual presentations.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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Built for Pearson BTEC Level 4 Higher National Certificate in Digital Technologies
18 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Pearson Education Ltd.
- Big Data & Visualisation
- Cloud Fundamentals
- Cyber Security
- Data Analytics
- Database Design & Development
- Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Intelligent Systems
and 12 more in the full unit list below.
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