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- You register with an approved centre. That is a college, training provider or employer ATHE 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 ATHE Ltd awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from ATHE Ltd.
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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. Zavmo teaches towards them on your own work, and work done here is recognised as prior learning under the agreements we hold.
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What each unit actually teaches you to do
Advanced Programming Real unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand different software design and development approaches and their respective strengths and weaknesses.
- Understand and apply automation techniques to improve software development efficiency.
- Apply modern software engineering practices to develop high-quality software solutions.
Analytical Impact through Data Visualisations Real unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Explain the importance of communicating results in a clear way.
- Explain the importance of communicating results in a compelling way.
- Identify a range of graphical representations appropriate for data analysis.
- Identify a range of data visualisations appropriate for data analysis.
- Design effective data visualisations.
- Construct effective data visualisations.
Computer Systems, Networks and Security Real unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the enabling principles of computer systems, networks, and security.
- Understand the functions and interrelationships of computer hardware and software components.
- Understand the potential risks to computer systems and data, including malware, hacking, and data breaches.
Concepts and Features of Operating Systems Real unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Explain the concept of Operating Systems (OS).
- Describe the main functions of different Operating Systems (OS).
- Describe the main features of different Operating Systems (OS).
- Explain security functions within operating systems.
- Describe security features associated with operating systems.
Cryptography Real unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand key terminology used in the field of cryptography.
- Understand the historical evolution and development of cryptographic techniques.
- Understand the arithmetic principles underlying current and commonly used cryptographic techniques.
- Understand the key features of current and commonly used cryptographic techniques.
- Understand the practical application of modern encryption methods in various contexts.
Cyber Security Concepts Real unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand fundamental cyber security concepts, including threats, vulnerabilities, and countermeasures.
- Understand the risks associated with cyber security incidents.
- Understand how to respond to cyber security incidents effectively.
- Understand how to determine client security requirements.
- Understand how to derive security objectives from client security requirements.
Data Preparation and Quality Real unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Undertake basic data extraction and manipulation using SQL queries.
- Understand common approaches to combining data from different sources, including data warehousing and ETL processes.
- Understand the quality risks inherent in data and implement strategies to mitigate or resolve these risks.
Data and Database Systems Real unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the fundamental concepts and characteristics of data.
- Understand the principles of effective database design, including data modelling and normalisation.
- Design a database system to meet specified requirements, considering factors such as data integrity, security, and performance.
IT Systems Development Real unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the stages of the system development lifecycle.
- Understand the purpose of each stage in the system development lifecycle.
- Understand different lifecycle models used in development activities.
- Understand the key behaviours required to develop achievable requirements for a system.
- Use appropriate analysis techniques to investigate an existing system.
- Document the findings of an investigation of an existing system.
- Identify a possible solution to a problem or need related to an IT system.
- Design a possible solution to a problem or need related to an IT system.
- Document a proposed solution to a problem or need related to an IT system.
- Present a solution proposal to a client in a clear and professional manner.
Legislation, Regulation, Ethics and Codes of Practice Real unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand current legal issues relevant to the IT industry.
- Understand current regulatory issues relevant to the IT industry.
- Understand current ethical issues relevant to the IT industry.
- Understand the importance of creating organisational policies and procedures related to IT.
- Understand the role of professional bodies in maintaining professional standards in the IT industry.
- Understand the role of industry certification in maintaining professional standards in the IT industry.
Methods and Tools for Analysis Real unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Identify common methods used in data analysis.
- Describe the tools used in data analysis.
- Explain the principles of user experience in the context of data analysis.
- Explain the importance of domain context for data analysis.
- Describe the principal approaches to defining customer requirements for data analysis.
Mobile Applications Development Real unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of user experience in mobile application development.
- Design mobile applications based on a given client brief.
- Develop mobile applications based on a given client brief.
- Test mobile applications to ensure functionality and performance.
- Publish mobile applications according to industry standards.
Organisational Data Architecture Real unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the fundamental principles of organisational data architecture.
- Understand the stages of a common data analysis lifecycle.
- Understand the purpose of each stage in a common data analysis lifecycle.
- Understand how to create a simple entity-relationship model to represent data relationships.
Principles of Networks Real unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand various network technologies and their suitability for different user needs.
- Understand the potential risks to data security within a network environment.
- Understand data mitigation strategies to protect data within a network environment.
- Understand the importance of open standards in network design.
- Design a network incorporating flexibility and resilience through the application of open standards.
- Integrate flexibility and resilience into a network.
Programming and Scripting Real unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the fundamental principles of computer programming, including data types, control structures, and algorithms.
- Design a computer program to meet a client brief, taking into consideration user interface design principles and accessibility.
- Develop a computer program according to the design specifications and client brief, using appropriate programming languages and tools.
- Test and evaluate a computer program to ensure it meets the specified requirements and identify and resolve any errors or bugs.
Security Architectures Real unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how an organisation's security environment influences its approach to security measures.
- Understand how well-designed security architectures can provide a comprehensive and inclusive approach to cyber security.
- Understand how hardware components can be securely deployed within a security architecture.
- Understand how software components can be securely deployed within a security architecture.
Software Testing Frameworks and Methodologies Real unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the fundamental principles of various software testing frameworks.
- Understand different software testing methodologies and their applications.
- Implement a Test-Driven Development (TDD) process effectively within a software development project.
- Implement a Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) process effectively within a software development project.
Statistics for Analysing Datasets Real unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the core principles of statistics and their application in analysing datasets.
- Understand the principles of descriptive analytics and their application in data analysis.
- Understand the principles of predictive analytics and their application in data analysis.
- Understand the principles of prescriptive analytics and their application in data analysis.
- Carry out simple statistical analysis using spreadsheet software functionality.
Synoptic Computing Project Real unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Identify a business problem or opportunity that could benefit from a computing solution.
- Investigate a business problem or opportunity that could benefit from a computing solution.
- Select appropriate tools to design a computing solution.
- Plan the implementation of a computing solution.
- Plan the testing of a computing solution.
- Demonstrate an understanding of professional best practice in computing.
The Principles of Full-Stack Development Real unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the fundamental principles underpinning full-stack development methodologies.
- Design a web application based on a given client brief, utilising appropriate full-stack technologies.
- Implement a web application using full-stack technologies to fulfil a client brief.
- Apply best practice techniques to harden a web application against potential security threats and vulnerabilities.
Web Design and Programming Real unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principal technologies used to build web sites.
- Understand the components used to build web sites.
- Understand the technologies and processes involved in hosting web sites.
- Understand the technologies and processes involved in accessing web sites.
- Apply the principles of client-side web development to create interactive web pages.
- Apply the principles of server-side web development to create dynamic web applications.
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 Secure Development
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Carry out information security architecture activities
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Carry out secure software development activities
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Cleanse Data to Resolve Quality Issues
- Standard
Conduct Secure Development, Under Supervision
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Contribute to information security architecture activities
- Standard
Develop and implement cryptographic methods
- Standard
Direct Security Architecture Development
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Direct information security architecture activities
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Manage information security architecture activities
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Perform Operating System Hardening
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Visualise and interpret the results of computational analysis of life science data
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 304 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
Principal Security Architect
This role can lead to CISO, CTO or Chief Architect positions, or a Distinguished Engineer role focused purely on technical architecture.
See the whole journeyThe credits, and who awards them
Level 4 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by ATHE 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
Advanced ProgrammingAnalytical Impact through Data VisualisationsComputer Systems, Networks and SecurityConcepts and Features of Operating SystemsCryptographyCyber Security ConceptsData Preparation and QualityData and Database 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.
The Navigator · your what-if tutor Illustration - Bring your own plan Create
For “Synoptic 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
“Analytical Impact through Data Visualisations” 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.
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 Secure Development
- Carry out information security architecture activities
- Carry out secure software development activities
- Cleanse Data to Resolve Quality Issues
- Conduct Secure Development, Under Supervision
- Contribute to information security architecture activities
- Develop and implement cryptographic methods
- Direct Security Architecture Development
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 Advanced Programming, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
This unit covers software design and development approaches, such as waterfall and agile models, alongside automation techniques. Learners will apply modern software engineering practices to develop high-quality software efficiently.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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Built for ATHE Level 4 Extended Diploma in Computing
21 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by ATHE Ltd.
- Advanced Programming
- Analytical Impact through Data Visualisations
- Computer Systems, Networks and Security
- Concepts and Features of Operating Systems
- Cryptography
- Cyber Security Concepts
and 15 more in the full unit list below.
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