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- The centre assesses, and OTHM Qualifications awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from OTHM Qualifications.
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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.
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What each unit actually teaches you to do
Algorithms and Data Structures Real unit · OTHM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand a range of essential data structures, including arrays, linked lists, stacks, queues, trees, and graphs.
- Understand algorithmic complexity and appreciate its importance in terms of time and space efficiency.
- Understand a range of algorithmic techniques, including searching, sorting, recursion, and dynamic programming.
- Write algorithms in popular programming languages, demonstrating an understanding of data structures and algorithmic techniques.
Artificial Intelligence Real unit · OTHM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of artificial intelligence and data-driven learning, including different AI paradigms and their applications.
- Understand the principles underlying neural network training, including backpropagation and optimisation techniques.
- Build and train neural networks using appropriate tools and techniques.
- Understand a range of generative modelling architectures and techniques in deep learning, such as GANs and VAEs.
- Understand how AI can be used for both offence and defence in the realm of cybersecurity, including examples of AI-powered attacks and defences.
Computer Networks Real unit · OTHM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the core principles underpinning computer networks, including network topologies, protocols, and standards.
- Understand how various devices connect to form networks, considering different network architectures and communication methods.
- Design a computer network suited to a given setting, taking into account factors such as security, scalability, and performance requirements.
Databases Real unit · OTHM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the fundamental concepts of databases, including data models, database management systems (DBMS), and database architecture.
- Design a relational database based on user specifications, including entity-relationship diagrams (ERD) and normalisation techniques.
- Use SQL to interact with databases, including data definition language (DDL) and data manipulation language (DML) commands.
Digital Forensics Real unit · OTHM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of digital forensics, including the forensic process, evidence handling, and chain of custody.
- Understand the key techniques used in digital forensic investigations, including data acquisition, data analysis, and reporting.
- Conduct forensic analysis of computer systems and storage media, using appropriate tools and techniques.
- Use digital forensic techniques to verify the source and authenticity of image and video data.
- Understand the legal and ethical aspects of digital forensics, including data protection, privacy, and admissibility of evidence.
Ethical Hacking Real unit · OTHM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the role of penetration testing in enhancing Cyber Security, including its benefits and limitations.
- Identify and assess security vulnerabilities through reconnaissance, scanning and vulnerability assessment techniques.
- Exploit security vulnerabilities in a controlled environment and report findings to help mitigate and prevent security attacks.
- Understand the legal and ethical considerations for penetration testing, including relevant laws and regulations.
Information Technology Security Real unit · OTHM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the nature of information and what is meant by information privacy, including data protection principles and regulations.
- Understand key concepts in information security, including common threats, vulnerabilities, and associated risks to information assets.
- Understand the importance of secure design principles in Cyber Security systems, including security by design and defence in depth.
- Apply cryptographic techniques to encrypt and decrypt information, ensuring confidentiality and integrity.
- Understand legal and societal issues concerning information security, including data breaches, privacy rights, and ethical considerations.
Malware Analysis Real unit · OTHM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the different types of malware that exist and how they spread, including viruses, worms, Trojans, and ransomware.
- Understand how to detect malware and describe the challenges of doing so, including the use of anti-virus software and intrusion detection systems.
- Perform malware analysis to identify and understand the function of malware, using static and dynamic analysis techniques.
- Understand strategies to protect from malware and recover from attacks, including implementing security policies, patching vulnerabilities, and backing up data.
Mathematics for Computer Science Real unit · OTHM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand binary and the representation of numbers in different bases, including decimal, hexadecimal, and octal.
- Understand the principles of propositional logic, set theory, and proof as applicable to computer science, including logical operators, set operations, and proof techniques.
- Understand key topics in number theory and their application in computer science, including prime numbers, modular arithmetic, and cryptography.
- Understand series and sequences and their importance in computer science, including arithmetic and geometric series, and their applications in algorithm analysis.
- Understand key topics in linear algebra, including vectors, matrices, and their applications in computer graphics and machine learning.
Operating Systems Real unit · OTHM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the essential function of modern operating systems
- Understand the architecture of modern operating systems
- Understand memory management techniques used by modern operating systems
- Understand I/O management techniques used by modern operating systems
- Understand process management techniques used by modern operating systems
- Understand the principles of concurrency in operating systems
- Understand potential problems with concurrency in operating systems
- Write programs at the kernel level
Principles of Computer Systems Real unit · OTHM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the architecture and key components of computer systems, including the CPU, memory, and input/output devices.
- Understand the types and functions of memory in computing systems, including RAM, ROM, and cache memory.
- Design and implement simple state machines using appropriate tools and techniques.
- Understand the fundamentals of logic circuits and gates, including AND, OR, NOT, and XOR gates.
- Understand the fundamentals of assembly language and how it relates to higher level programming languages, including instruction sets and memory addressing.
Security Testing Real unit · OTHM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand a range of security testing methods, including their purpose, application, and limitations.
- Perform essential web application security testing, using appropriate tools and techniques.
- Perform essential mobile application security testing, using appropriate tools and techniques.
- Understand the ethical and professional standards in security testing, including data protection and confidentiality.
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.
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Carry out digital forensic examination activities
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Carry out information security architecture activities
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Carry out web application penetration testing
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Contribute to information security testing activities
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Direct information security testing activities
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Implement Information Assurance Under Supervision
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Manage digital forensic activities
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Perform Operating System Hardening
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Plan Penetration Tests
The jobs these credits are mapped to
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Where this can lead
Associate Penetration Tester
This work builds a foundation in ethical hacking. It can lead to a senior penetration tester role or a move into red team work.
See the whole journeyThe credits, and who awards them
Level 5 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
Algorithms and Data StructuresArtificial IntelligenceComputer NetworksDatabasesDigital ForensicsEthical HackingInformation Technology SecurityMalware Analysis
Each one is a real unit registered against this qualification.
How you’d practise it
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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.
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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.
- Carry out digital forensic examination activities
- Carry out information security architecture activities
- Carry out web application penetration testing
- Contribute to information security testing activities
- Direct information security testing activities
- Implement Information Assurance Under Supervision
- Manage digital forensic activities
- Perform Operating System Hardening
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 Algorithms and Data Structures, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
Learners will study essential data structures and algorithmic techniques, including arrays, linked lists, stacks, and trees. The unit covers algorithmic complexity and enables learners to write algorithms in popular programming languages, applying appropriate data structures effectively.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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Built for OTHM Level 5 Extended Diploma in Cyber Security
12 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by OTHM Qualifications.
- Algorithms and Data Structures
- Artificial Intelligence
- Computer Networks
- Databases
- Digital Forensics
- Ethical Hacking
and 6 more in the full unit list below.
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