How you’d get this certificate
- 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 OTHM Qualifications has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
- The centre assesses, and OTHM Qualifications awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from OTHM Qualifications.
The OTHM Level 7 Diploma in Immersive Software Engineering aims to develop advanced knowledge and skills in immersive software engineering applicable to various domains such as web and cloud technologies, security, automation, and data analytics.
These are the units OTHM Qualifications 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 OTHM Qualifications. It does the teaching and the mapping. OTHM Qualifications 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
Agile Project Management Real unit · OTHM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the fundamentals of project management and the role of project manager.
- Understand traditional project management with Waterfall SDLC.
- Understand & apply business agility in the context of dynamic market changes.
- Understand & apply Scrum framework to build IT products.
- Attain knowledge required to perform roles like scrum master, product owner & developers.
- Understand & leverage Kanban to optimise the flow of value.
Cloud Computing & DevOps Real unit · OTHM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand and implement continuous integration and continuous delivery process and techniques.
- Understand, design and implement distributed systems on cloud.
- Understand docker container and implement container orchestration using Kubernetes.
Database & SQL Programming Real unit · OTHM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand data and its storage importance, traditional storage systems and its challenges.
- Understand the relational database installation and configuration.
- Understand various data manipulation techniques and SQL data manipulation language (DML).
- Understand data retrieval techniques and SQL commands.
Security Engineering Real unit · OTHM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Analyse and evaluate the security of systems and web applications architecture.
- Implement system hardening techniques.
- Apply encryption techniques to secure data.
- Understand and implement data security measures including identifying and mitigating social engineering attacks.
- Use tools and standards for security engineering.
Software Programming Principles and Practices in Java I Real unit · OTHM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance of programming in the current world.
- Understand why Java is called a portable language.
- Understand how data is stored and processed.
- Understand arithmetic and Boolean operators.
- Understand multiple conditional statements and breaking out of them.
- Understand the usage and importance of loops and functions.
- Introduction to multiple data storage types.
- Introduction to classes and objects.
Web Designing Real unit · OTHM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand what the building blocks of a web page are.
- Understand the basics of CSS and different styles.
- Understand user input properties of HTML.
- Introduction to DOM and JavaScript and its uses.
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
Carry out secure software development activities
- Standard
Manage DevOps activities
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 197 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
Lead Security Engineer
This role can lead to Director of Information Security, taking ownership of a whole security programme, or Chief Information Security Officer, setting security strategy at board level.
See the whole journeyThe credits, and who awards them
Level 7 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by OTHM Qualifications 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
Agile Project ManagementCloud Computing & DevOpsDatabase & SQL ProgrammingSecurity EngineeringSoftware Programming Principles and Practices in Java IWeb Designing
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 “Agile 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
“Database & SQL Programming” 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.
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 Agile Project Management, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
This unit equips learners with an understanding of traditional and agile project management methodologies, focusing on Scrum and Kanban frameworks.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
It is £70 a month, billed monthly. Your free first module is Future Fluency, and you can cancel any time. Teaching towards this qualification begins when you subscribe.
Built for OTHM Level 7 Vocationally-Related Qualification in Computing and IT
6 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by OTHM Qualifications.
- Agile Project Management
- Cloud Computing & DevOps
- Database & SQL Programming
- Security Engineering
- Software Programming Principles and Practices in Java I
- Web Designing
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