Level 2 Technical Diploma in Digital Technology
What is the Course About?
Digital technology is an integral part of all businesses today, from mobile and online presence to delivering reliable network connections, managing your information and backing up your data. Businesses rely on digital technology to manage and improve their customer communications, product/service delivery, financial management and staff training. To succeed in the digital economy, businesses are adapting to new methods and ways of working; shifting their focus from making and delivering things to helping customers achieve their goals.
The areas covered will cover include:
• Installing, configuring and testing a computer system to given user requirements.
• Investigating current and emerging technologies and how organisations use them to meet their business needs.
• Understanding the threats to IT system security, and the methods used to protect against them.
• Interpreting the needs of an organisation and how to design an appropriate information technology (IT) solution.
• Collecting data, planning, creating and using databases, and presenting information to a range of audiences for given purposes.
• Manipulating different types of data – you will produce visual representations of data and perform maintenance activities, finding solutions to produce a finished product.
Unit 1: Setup and configure Technology Systems
Unit 2: Exploring Current and Emerging Technologies
Unit 3: Security Protection and Risk Management
Unit 5: IT Service Solutions
Unit 6: Database Tools and Techniques
Unit 9: Organisational Data Systems
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What are my progression and career options?
To progress on to our level 3 course you must get a MERIT at Level 2.
You can go to work and there will be opportunities for you to carry on your study on a part-time basis. This may be by professional courses or through an Apprenticeship.
How will I be assessed?
To pass the course you need to pass every unit that you are taught. Assessments are mainly assignments set by and marked by your lecturer. There may be exams for certain units, which are normally sat in May\ June. If you have to re-sit an exam there will be a fee that you have to pay.
Entry requirements
Level 2 courses have a basic entry requirement of 3 GCSE’s at grade D and above.
This course is designed for students aged 16 - 19 who have just finished or recently finished school. If you are older than this, please get in contact with UCM to discuss other courses that will be more appropriate.