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- Zavmo teaches you. You learn the units one-to-one with an AI tutor, on your own work.
- You register with an approved centre. That is a college, training provider or employer Qualifi Ltd has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
- The centre assesses, and Qualifi Ltd awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from Qualifi Ltd.
The QUALIFI Level 7 Diploma in IT aims to develop learners' ability to solve complex applied computing problems, manage IT projects, and understand the impact of information technology on society.
These are the units Qualifi 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.
Zavmo is not an awarding body, is not an approved centre, and is not affiliated with Qualifi Ltd. It does the teaching and the mapping. Qualifi Ltd sets this qualification and awards it, and a qualified human assessor makes the assessment decision.
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What each unit actually teaches you to do
Computer Networks Real unit · Qualifi Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how computer networks are organised with the concept of layered approaches.
- Apply and configure internet protocol (IP) addressing, static and dynamic routing and traffic control.
- Understand the descriptions of the internet protocols of each layer.
- Understand the functionality of the data link layer.
Computers and Society Real unit · Qualifi Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the ethical, social, legal and professional issues in IT.
- Evaluate and apply major ethical theories and codes of conduct.
- Understand the ethical issues in AI and robotics.
Computing Projects Real unit · Qualifi Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Analyse a software design problem and write a project proposal to fix it.
- Plan and design a front-end and back-end solution.
- Implement the solution using modern software technologies.
Data Analytics Real unit · Qualifi Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the sources and characteristics of big data.
- Understand the applications of big data and data processing pipelines.
- Assess the application of big data technologies for different usage scenarios.
Database Management Systems Real unit · Qualifi Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the components of the entity-relationship (ER) model and convert from the ER model to the relational model.
- Understand the application of the concepts of functional dependency-preserving decomposition.
- Perform an installation of a programming language database and perform CRUD operations.
- Perform database operations using MySQL.
Management Information Systems Real unit · Qualifi Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the objectives and applications of management information systems.
- Understand the technological, ethical and international aspects of MIS.
- Evaluate ways in which organisations build, manage and maintain MIS.
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 Routine Data Analysis Studies
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 26 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
Senior Global Data Analyst
This work can lead to director-level analytics roles, a principal data analyst or architect path, or a chief data officer role.
See the whole journeyThe credits, and who awards them
Level 7 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by Qualifi 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 NetworksComputers and SocietyComputing ProjectsData AnalyticsDatabase Management SystemsManagement Information Systems
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.
- Bring your own plan Create
For “Computing Projects” 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
“Data Analytics” 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
“Database Management Systems” 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 Computer Networks, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
This unit aims to develop learners’ understanding of materials and networking technologies within the IT profession, including threats and vulnerabilities in security.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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Built for Qualifi Level 7 Diploma in IT
6 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Qualifi Ltd.
- Computer Networks
- Computers and Society
- Computing Projects
- Data Analytics
- Database Management Systems
- Management Information Systems
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