How you’d get it

How you’d get this certificate

  1. Zavmo teaches you. You learn the units one-to-one with an AI tutor, on your own work.
  2. You register with an approved centre. That is a college, training provider or employer NOCN has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
  3. The centre assesses, and NOCN awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from NOCN.

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01What it is

NOCN offers a broad range of qualifications and alternative routes for both experienced workers and new entrants to the jobs market.

These are the units NOCN 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 NOCN. It does the teaching and the mapping. NOCN sets this qualification and awards it, and a qualified human assessor makes the assessment decision.

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02The units

What each unit actually teaches you to do

Applied Project and Quality Management Real unit · NOCN
You'll analyse various project management methodologies and develop comprehensive project plans. The unit also covers establishing a quality culture, implementing project governance, and applying ethical frameworks within project management.

What you'll be able to do

  • Analyse projects and project management approaches in own context.
  • Develop a comprehensive plan for project management in relation to chosen project.
  • Understand the importance of establishing a quality culture.
  • Implement project governance and ethical frameworks.
  • Evaluate project closure processes.
Building Relationships in a Workplace Setting Real unit · NOCN
This unit focuses on developing interpersonal skills and establishing effective relationships in a workplace environment.

What you'll be able to do

  • Demonstrate effective communication skills in workplace settings.
  • Build and maintain professional relationships within a workplace.
Computer Engineering and IT Infrastructure Real unit · NOCN
This unit delves into technical aspects of computer engineering and IT infrastructure management.

What you'll be able to do

  • Demonstrate knowledge of computer systems and infrastructure.
  • Apply problem-solving skills to IT infrastructure issues.
Maintain Systems and Processes for Health, Safety, Welfare and Environmental Protection in an Engineering Environment Real unit · NOCN
This unit focuses on maintaining systems and protocols that ensure health and safety in engineering.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand health and safety regulations relevant to engineering environments.
  • Implement health and safety measures in the workplace.
Operations Management in a Workplace Setting Real unit · NOCN
This unit provides insights into the principles and practices of operations management.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the key principles of operations management.
  • Apply operations management techniques to workplace scenarios.
Supply Chain Management in a Workplace Setting Real unit · NOCN
This unit covers the essentials of managing supply chains and logistics in a business context.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand supply chain management principles.
  • Analyse and optimise supply chain processes.
03The standards

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.

  • Lead the Delivery of the Network Infrastructure Services Support Capability and Strategy

    Standard
04Where it leads

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.

Where this can lead

Associate Infrastructure Engineer

This role can lead to work as a senior infrastructure engineer or a lead engineer, taking on more complex systems and technical decisions.

See the whole journey
05The credits

The credits, and who awards them

Level 5 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by NOCN 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

Applied Project and Quality ManagementBuilding Relationships in a Workplace SettingComputer Engineering and IT InfrastructureMaintain Systems and Processes for Health, Safety, Welfare and Environmental Protection in an Engineering EnvironmentOperations Management in a Workplace SettingSupply Chain Management in a Workplace Setting

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 The Navigator · your what-if tutor Illustration
The Navigator Your plan for “Applied Project and Quality Management” assumes the same two people are free in March. What have you seen that makes you slightly uneasy about that?
You One of them has been pulled onto the migration twice already. Probably fine.
The Navigator That is the thread worth pulling. Let us build the version where it happens a third time and find the move that works either way.
The same lesson on the real thing: the conversation in the middle, the thinking ladder on the left, and the criteria each answer is evidencing on the right.
  • Bring your own plan Create

    For “Applied Project and Quality 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

    “Maintain Systems and Processes for Health, Safety, Welfare and Environmental Protection in an Engineering Environment” 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

    “Operations Management in a Workplace Setting” 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 Applied Project and Quality Management, one of this qualification's own units.

Applied Project and Quality Management Level 5

Applied to your work in any of these jobs

Learners will analyse various project management methodologies and develop comprehensive project plans. The unit also covers establishing a quality culture, implementing project governance, and applying ethical frameworks within project management.

How the thinking builds
  1. 1 Remember
  2. 2 Understand
  3. 3 Apply
  4. 4 Analyse
  5. 5 Evaluate
  6. 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.

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.

Your Plan Illustration

Built for NOCN Level 5 Diploma in Computer Engineering (IT Infrastructure)

6 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by NOCN.

  1. Applied Project and Quality Management
  2. Building Relationships in a Workplace Setting
  3. Computer Engineering and IT Infrastructure
  4. Maintain Systems and Processes for Health, Safety, Welfare and Environmental Protection in an Engineering Environment
  5. Operations Management in a Workplace Setting
  6. Supply Chain Management in a Workplace Setting
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.

Learned on your own work, taught one-to-one.

Everything you just read, learned one-to-one on the job you already do. Your free first module is Future Fluency, so you can see how the teaching works before you pay for anything.

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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.

The title, level, credits, guided learning hours and unit learning outcomes on this page are taken from the Ofqual Register of Regulated Qualifications. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Where this data comes from.