ATHE Ltd · RQF Level 7

ATHE Level 7 Extended Diploma in Computing Technologies (Networking)

You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.

  • LevelRQF Level 7
  • Total credits120
  • Guided learning600 hours
  • Units in this qualification7

Awarded by ATHE Ltd · on the Ofqual register

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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.

Business Intelligence SystemsReal unit · ATHE Ltd
This unit introduces the characteristics and components of business intelligence systems and their organisational importance. You'll analyse the strategic role of these systems and develop skills in using business intelligence software for data analysis and decision support.

What you'll be able to do

  • Describe the key characteristics of business intelligence systems
  • Explain the organisational need for business intelligence systems
  • Analyse how business intelligence systems play a key strategic role in organisations
  • Use business intelligence software to analyse data and generate reports
Implementing and Managing Cyber SecurityReal unit · ATHE Ltd
You'll study the fundamental principles of cyber security, including confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The unit covers user awareness, protection methods, testing, and managing cyber-attacks, enabling learners to manage cyber security within organisations.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the fundamental principles of cyber security, including confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
  • Understand the importance of user awareness and training in mitigating cyber security risks.
  • Understand various cyber security protection methods, including firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and encryption.
  • Understand the purpose and techniques used in cyber security testing, such as penetration testing and vulnerability scanning.
  • Understand the steps involved in managing a cyber-attack, including incident response, containment, and recovery.
  • Manage cyber security within an organisation, including developing policies, implementing security controls, and monitoring for threats.
Independent ProjectReal unit · ATHE Ltd
You'll learn to plan, manage, and complete an independent ICT project, considering scope, resources, timelines, and constraints. The unit includes project management, testing, and evaluation to ensure fulfilment of project objectives.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the key considerations to make when planning an ICT project, including scope, resources, and timelines.
  • Plan an independent ICT project, defining clear objectives, deliverables, and milestones.
  • Manage an ICT project, including monitoring progress, managing risks, and allocating resources effectively.
  • Complete an ICT project to a defined specification.
  • Test the developed ICT project to ensure it meets the required functionality and performance criteria.
  • Evaluate the developed ICT project, identifying areas for improvement and lessons learned.
Internet of Things (IoT)Real unit · ATHE Ltd
This unit provides a comprehensive understanding of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies, including system architecture, communication protocols, and embedded components. You'll examine IoT security risks, benefits, and requirements for effective implementation and operation.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the core technologies that underpin the Internet of Things (IoT).
  • Understand the security considerations associated with implementing and managing Internet of Things (IoT) solutions.
  • Understand the benefits that can be realised through the effective deployment of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies within various contexts.
  • Understand the specific requirements for successful implementation and operation of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies.
Managing Innovation and Change in ComputingReal unit · ATHE Ltd
This unit covers the principles of innovation and change management within computing, including models for managing change and exploring innovative ideas. You'll learn to recommend computing solutions and understand their wider business context.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the fundamental principles of innovation and change management within the context of computing.
  • Understand the processes and strategies involved in effectively managing change within a computing environment.
  • Understand how to explore and evaluate innovative computing ideas, considering their potential impact and feasibility.
  • Recommend innovative computing solutions based on a thorough analysis of needs and available technologies.
  • Understand the wider business context and implications of proposed computing changes, including financial, operational, and strategic considerations.
Networking and Infrastructure DevelopmentReal unit · ATHE Ltd
You'll explore different network infrastructures, including their components, topologies, and security threats. The unit also covers wireless networks and the support and maintenance required to ensure network infrastructure reliability and security.

What you'll be able to do

  • Describe the features of different network infrastructures
  • Explain the importance of network infrastructure security and relevant security measures
  • Describe the characteristics and applications of wireless network infrastructures
  • Explain how to support and maintain a network infrastructure, including troubleshooting techniques
Systems Development and User Experience (UX)Real unit · ATHE Ltd
You'll study the systems development lifecycle (SDLC), software and data system construction, and user experience (UX) principles. The unit teaches you to design, implement, test systems, and develop prototypes, comparing different SDLC models and modular design approaches.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the different stages of the systems development lifecycle.
  • Understand the principles of software system construction.
  • Understand the principles of data system construction.
  • Understand how to design a system.
  • Understand how to implement a system.
  • Understand how to test a system.
  • Understand how to create a positive user experience (UX).
  • Develop prototypes for a system.
  • Test prototypes for a system.

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 7 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.

Business Intelligence SystemsImplementing and Managing Cyber SecurityIndependent ProjectInternet of Things (IoT)Managing Innovation and Change in ComputingNetworking and Infrastructure DevelopmentSystems Development and User Experience (UX)

Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.

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Where this connects

Where these credits take you

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ATHE Level 7 Extended Diploma in Computing Technologies (Networking)
  • Architect end-to-end Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) solutions
  • Carry out infrastructure penetration testing
  • Create business insight dashboards and reports
  • Design Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) hardware solutions
  • Design, develop and test Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) software solutions
  • Lead network infrastructure services
  • Lead user centred development activities
  • Perform basic business intelligence analysis
This is your Mind Palace on learn.zavmo.ai. Every skill above comes from this role's own record, not an example borrowed from another job. A node lights up when you evidence it, and what you build stays yours between jobs. That is the part a course cannot do.

Where this can lead

Associate IoT Solutions Specialist

Your journey starts here, learning the fundamentals. Where you go next is up to you, but we'll provide the opportunities and support to help you get there. The IoT world is your oyster, honestly.

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Skills it covers

What the job actually needs. These are the standards the units are built against, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.

Architect end-to-end Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) solutionsCarry out infrastructure penetration testingCreate business insight dashboards and reportsDesign Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) hardware solutionsDesign, develop and test Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) software solutionsLead network infrastructure servicesLead user centred development activitiesPerform basic business intelligence analysis

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.

One-to-one, on your real workNo lectures, no past-papers. Every unit is practised on the actual tasks your job throws at you, a tutor beside you, not a video in front of you.
Taught to the top, not the testMost courses stop at remembering. Your companion keeps climbing: analysing, judging, creating. That’s the part a machine can’t do for you.
Credits you keep, a map that continuesEvery unit is regulated and yours for good. The day you finish, Zavmo already knows the next role your new credits open.
Business Intelligence SystemsLevel 7

Applied to your work in any of these jobs

This unit introduces the characteristics and components of business intelligence systems and their organisational importance. Learners will analyse the strategic role of these systems and develop skills in using business intelligence software for data analysis and decision support.

How the thinking builds
  1. Remember
  2. Understand
  3. Apply
  4. Analyse
  5. Evaluate
  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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Built for ATHE Level 7 Extended Diploma in Computing Technologies (Networking)

7 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by ATHE Ltd.

  1. Business Intelligence Systems
  2. Implementing and Managing Cyber Security
  3. Independent Project
  4. Internet of Things (IoT)
  5. Managing Innovation and Change in Computing
  6. Networking and Infrastructure Development

and 1 more in the full unit list below.

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.

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.

  1. Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.

  1. 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
  2. 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
  3. 4AnalyseThe Analyst
  4. 3ApplyThe Coach
  5. 2UnderstandThe Connector
  6. 1RememberThe Builder

Where most courses leave you Where Zavmo takes you

Why this matters: AI can already remember and understand for you. What it can’t do is take your real problem and judge the right call. So the only learning worth paying for is the learning that takes you to the top. That’s exactly what a tutor doing it with you, on your real work, is for.

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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No card. See how this qualification maps onto your role and meet the tutors who’d teach it, free. The learning begins when you subscribe. It’s £70 a month, billed monthly. Cancel any time and billing stops.