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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Gather and confirm the architecture requirements
   • Gather information regarding the architectural requirements
   • Establish and document the architectural requirements
2. Design layered architecture
   • Separate the areas of concern into logical layers
   • Determine cross-cutting concerns
   • Define the system into components
   • Identify the responsibilities of each component
   • Identify the interconnections between components
3. Plan a strategy to re-use components
   • Determine an appropriate strategy for communicating with external systems
   • Interact with existing legacy components
4. Design for globalisation and localisation
   • Determine culture specific information
   • Consider database design features
   • Select the appropriate user interface
   • Develop a software product for worldwide distribution
   • Develop a software product for a specific country

Performance Evidence

Evidence of the ability to:

design layered applications to increase application performance, scalability and re-usability

create flexible and configurable applications, and adapt these to suit different locales

adapt a software product to a particular language, and culture, of the target market.

Note: If a specific volume or frequency is not stated, then evidence must be provided at least once.

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Knowledge Evidence

To complete the unit requirements safely and effectively, the individual must:

outline the principles of database design

outline current software development methodologies

explain object-oriented programming and its role in application architecture

describe the software development life cycle.

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