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What each unit actually teaches you to do
Computer Systems Architecture Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Explain the relationships between hardware components and the subsystems used in a computer system to understand system architecture
- Categorise the key features and services provided by different computer operating systems and hardware to select appropriate technologies
- Use network communication technology and the associated services to connect computer systems to enable data transfer
- Demonstrate diagnostic and troubleshooting skills to solve hardware, software and networking related issues to maintain system functionality
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
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
Maths for Computing Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Use applied number theory in practical computing scenarios to solve real-world problems
- Analyse events using probability theory and probability distributions to predict outcomes
- Determine solutions of graphical examples using geometry and vector methods to visualise and solve problems
- Evaluate problems concerning differential and integral calculus to model and analyse change
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
Planning a Computing Project Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Conduct small-scale research, information gathering and data collection to generate knowledge on an identified subject area relevant to a computing project
- Explore the features and business requirements of organisations operating in an identified sector to inform project planning
- Produce detailed project plans based on research of the chosen theme for an identified organisation, including timelines, resource allocation, and risk assessments
- Present project recommendations and justifications of decisions made based on research of the identified theme and sector, demonstrating a clear understanding of the project's rationale and potential impact
Professional Practice Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate a range of interpersonal and transferable communication skills to a target audience
- Apply critical reasoning and thinking to a range of problem-solving scenarios
- Discuss the importance and dynamics of working within a team and the impact of team working in different environments
- Examine the need for Continuing Professional Development (CPD) and its role within the workplace and for higher level learning
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
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
Strategic Information Systems Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Review the information requirements of organisations to understand their data needs
- Explore the types of information systems that are used within all levels of an organisation to support decision-making
- Demonstrate the use of an information system to produce management information for effective reporting
- Review the effectiveness of strategic information systems for global competitiveness to improve business performance
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
Assist in Delivering Data Driven Business Insights
- Standard
Deliver Data Driven Business Insights Using a Range of Data Sources
- Standard
Lead the Data Analysis Capability, Strategy and Framework
- 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 56 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
Data Analytics Manager
From here, some move into wider data leadership roles, others into product or engineering leadership.
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
Computer Systems ArchitectureCyber SecurityData AnalyticsDatabase Design & DevelopmentFundamentals of Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Intelligent SystemsManagement in the Digital EconomyMaths for ComputingNetworking
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 “Planning a Computing Project” 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
“Computer Systems Architecture” 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.
- Assist in Delivering Data Driven Business Insights
- Deliver Data Driven Business Insights Using a Range of Data Sources
- Lead the Data Analysis Capability, Strategy and Framework
- 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 Computer Systems Architecture, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
This unit provides an understanding of computer hardware components, operating systems, and networking technologies. Learners will explain hardware relationships, categorise operating systems, and apply network communication services.
- 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 Computing for England
15 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Pearson Education Ltd.
- Computer Systems Architecture
- Cyber Security
- Data Analytics
- Database Design & Development
- Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Intelligent Systems
- Management in the Digital Economy
and 9 more in the full unit list below.
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