ATHE
Level 5
QN: 610/3715/1
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ATHE Level 5 Extended Diploma in Computing
Official qualification regulated by Ofqual, awarded by ATHE. Classified as a Vocationally-Related Qualification. Total guided learning hours: 1020 hours.
Qualification Level
Level 5
Awarding Body
ATHE
Syllabus Units
17 Units
Guided Hours
1020 hrs
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Course Syllabus & Study Modules
Complete breakdown of verified curriculum topics and learning objectives.
1
Advanced Database Practice
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand advanced relational database concepts
- Understand and carry out definition and manipulation of database objects
- Understand the structure and function of database objects
2
Advanced Programming
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the importance of implementing SOLID principles on the OOP paradigm
- Understand the importance of DevSecOps as a set of practices, cultural approaches, and tools in software development
- Can design, build and test a large dataset application using SOLID principles, clean coding techniques, and automated testing
3
Advanced Project
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the tools and techniques of IT project management
- Understand risk and risk mitigation in relation to IT projects
- Understand how and why projects are reviewed and how learning from project reviews is embedded into future practice
4
Client and Server Technologies
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand transport layer protocols used in computer networks
- Can implement UDP communication between client and server
- Can implement TCP communication between client and server
- Can use SSL or TLS protocols to create secure communication between client and server technologies
5
Cloud Native Solutions
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand key components of cloud native solutions
- Can design, build, and deploy cloud-native (non-containerised) applications
- Can optimise cloud resources by leveraging modern architectural patterns in software engineering
- manage, and deploy containerised solutions using industry standard tools
6
Computing Projects for Digital Transformation
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand opportunities and drivers for digital transformation
- Understand risks associated with digital transformation
- Understand how risks associated with digital transformation are mitigated
7
Data Analytics and Machine Learning
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand how machines learn from data
- Understand ways to evaluate the performance of models
- Understand and can apply popular machine learning algorithms
8
Digital Forensics
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the fundamentals of computer and mobile forensics
- Understand the principles of computer and mobile forensic investigation
- Understand the application of professional guidelines and best practice in the discipline of digital forensics
9
Implementing Data Flows and Data Warehouses
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the different types of data flows and data warehouses
- Understand data extraction/capture, transformation and loading
- Understand multidimensional modelling and OLAP
10
Information Systems
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand different types of information systems that are used in an organisation
- Understand the principal uses, advantages and disadvantages of information systems
- Understand how organisations use information systems to support strategic and operational decisions
11
Innovative Technologies and Connected Devices
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand innovative developments in technology
- Understand the impact of technological innovations on the computer industry
- Understand the impact of technological innovations on society
12
Network and Cloud Design and Configuration
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand advanced problem-solving of net
- work infrastructure
- Can research
- plan and document a migration to integrate existing systems into the cloud
- Can apply security measures to cloud infrastructure and networks
13
Network Developer and IT Operations (NetDevOps)
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the skills needed to plan and code complex net
- work systems
- Understand the skills needed to build and test complex net
- Can implement the deployment and subsequent monitoring of complex net
- work infrastructure
14
Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the role of ethical hacking and the types of pen testing in the development of secure systems
- Understand a range of pen testing tools and explain their role with respect to adversarial behaviours, and malware and attack technologies
- perform and report a pen test for a given scenario
15
Professional Development and Business Communication
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the role of Continuous Professional Development (CPD) in the professional development of IT practitioners
- Understand the factors that contribute to different types of communication and the reputational impact of good business communication
- Understand how to communicate at a level that is appropriate to the target audience, particularly with senior management
- Understand how barriers to communication can be overcome to support users as customers
16
Programming for Data Engineering
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand tools and languages used for data engineering
- Understand data loading and manipulation techniques
- Understand data visualisation functions
17
Virtualisation and Cloud Computing
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand virtualisation for local user and cloud computing environments
- Can deploy a virtualised environment in accordance with a software developer’s requirements
- Can quantify and qualify how virtualisation and cloud computing contribute to increased organisational efficiency and productivity
- Can recognise dangers and threats to virtualised machines and cloud computing from bad actors
Regulatory & Verification Details
- Qualification Number (QN)
- 610/3715/1
- Regulated Status
- Available to learners
- Awarding Body
- ATHE
- Qualification Type
- Vocationally-Related Qualification
- Operational Start
- Feb 2024