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- The centre assesses, and NCFE awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from NCFE.
The NCFE Level 5 Diploma: Cloud Systems and Secure Networking is for individuals working within the digital technology sector. It focuses on security compliance, cyber security threats, change management, secure system administration, and network performance.
These are the units NCFE 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 NCFE. It does the teaching and the mapping. NCFE 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
Change management and business continuity in network infrastructure Real unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Explore common failures within cloud infrastructure systems.
- Explore how to integrate a server into a network.
- Explore the role of organisational procedures in maintaining compliance with industry practices and stakeholder requirements.
- Explore and apply approaches to change management.
Cloud networking protocols, services and topologies Real unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Explore fundamental cloud computing concepts and analyse their application within organisations.
- Explore the various components of IT system architecture and evaluate their role in supporting organisational IT solutions.
- Examine the functions of devices, applications, protocols and services within the context of conceptual models of cloud networking.
- Explore and apply the key concepts of routing and switching in cloud network environments.
- Explore different network topologies and networking technologies and assess their ability to provide a secure, scalable, and efficient IT infrastructure within a cloud environment.
- Examine the functions and configurations of core network services in supporting IT operations within a cloud infrastructure.
Cyber security threats and risk management Real unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Explore how different cyber threats affect IT systems and infrastructure.
- Evaluate human and organisational factors in cyber threats and actor behaviour.
- Apply threat modelling and mitigation strategies to reduce organisational cyber risk.
Network performance, optimisation, and maintenance Real unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Explore and apply various techniques for optimising overall system performance.
- Explore network maintenance strategies and procedures that ensure continuous network functionality.
- Apply systematic troubleshooting methodologies to diagnose and resolve issues within network and IT infrastructure.
- Explore cloud-based solutions for the effective management of wireless networks.
Secure system administration Real unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Explore methods of configuring and administering network security.
- Explore secure scripting techniques to automate administrative tasks.
- Explore system hardening measures and their impact on availability and security.
- Apply techniques for upgrading and testing components.
Security compliance and legislation Real unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Assess how current legislation influences operational practice within a security context.
- Apply industry-recognised frameworks for cloud compliance.
- Assess the implications of international legislation and cloud provider policies on data handling.
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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Design and Implement Cloud
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Design and Implement Cloud Networks COPY
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Design cloud architecture solutions
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Identify Cyber Security Threats and Vulnerabilities
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Implement Cloud Security
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Implement security solutions for cloud services
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Manage threat intelligence activities
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Undertake Cyber Threat Hunting Assignments
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 11 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
Network Optimisation Specialist
This work can lead to a Lead Network Engineer role, designing solutions across multiple systems, or a Principal Network Architect role, setting technical direction for major network components.
See the whole journeyThe credits, and who awards them
Level 5 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by NCFE 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
Change management and business continuity in network infrastructureCloud networking protocols, services and topologiesCyber security threats and risk managementNetwork performance, optimisation, and maintenanceSecure system administrationSecurity compliance and legislation
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.
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- Lead it Apply
“Cyber security threats and risk management” 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.
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.
- Design and Implement Cloud
- Design and Implement Cloud Networks COPY
- Design cloud architecture solutions
- Identify Cyber Security Threats and Vulnerabilities
- Implement Cloud Security
- Implement security solutions for cloud services
- Manage threat intelligence activities
- Undertake Cyber Threat Hunting Assignments
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 Change management and business continuity in network infrastructure, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
This unit covers common failures in cloud infrastructure, server integration into networks, and the role of organisational procedures in compliance. Learners will also apply change management approaches to maintain network infrastructure stability.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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Built for NCFE Level 5 Diploma: Cloud Systems and Secure Networking
6 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by NCFE.
- Change management and business continuity in network infrastructure
- Cloud networking protocols, services and topologies
- Cyber security threats and risk management
- Network performance, optimisation, and maintenance
- Secure system administration
- Security compliance and legislation
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