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Evidence Guide: ICAICT508A - Evaluate vendor products and equipment

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Tips for gathering evidence to demonstrate your skills

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ICAICT508A - Evaluate vendor products and equipment

What evidence can you provide to prove your understanding of each of the following citeria?

Establish business requirements

  1. Identify and prioritise business requirements
  2. Identify conflicting or overlapping business requirements
  3. Specify budget and available resources
  4. Validate business requirements, budget and resource needs with client
Identify and prioritise business requirements

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Identify conflicting or overlapping business requirements

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Specify budget and available resources

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Validate business requirements, budget and resource needs with client

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Identify vendor products and equipment

  1. Investigate a representative range of vendor products and equipment
  2. Identify and document interdependencies
  3. Specify and document technical alternatives available to the business
  4. Determine and document availability of products and equipment
  5. Ensure vendor products and equipment meet Australian or other standards
Investigate a representative range of vendor products and equipment

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Identify and document interdependencies

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Specify and document technical alternatives available to the business

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Determine and document availability of products and equipment

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Ensure vendor products and equipment meet Australian or other standards

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Test vendor products and services

  1. Develop valid and reliable test regime with appropriate measurements
  2. Establish test environment, including calibrated measuring equipment
  3. Undertake testing of products or equipment and document results
  4. Undertake revised testing where initial tests are inconclusive or where alternative product configuration may meet business requirements
Develop valid and reliable test regime with appropriate measurements

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Establish test environment, including calibrated measuring equipment

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Undertake testing of products or equipment and document results

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Undertake revised testing where initial tests are inconclusive or where alternative product configuration may meet business requirements

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Evaluate vendor products, services and equipment

  1. Rate vendor products for quality, performance and support
  2. Rate vendor products for fit with client needs
  3. Establish product limitations, performance, integration capabilities and costs and compare with established business requirements
  4. Prepare cost-benefit analysis
Rate vendor products for quality, performance and support

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Rate vendor products for fit with client needs

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Establish product limitations, performance, integration capabilities and costs and compare with established business requirements

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Prepare cost-benefit analysis

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Prepare evaluation report

  1. Document product information in order of preference
  2. Recommend preferred product, including the reasoning behind recommendations
  3. Prepare a report containing solution details
  4. Submit report to client for approval
Document product information in order of preference

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Recommend preferred product, including the reasoning behind recommendations

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Prepare a report containing solution details

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Submit report to client for approval

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Instructions to Assessors

Evidence Guide

The evidence guide provides advice on assessment and must be read in conjunction with the performance criteria, required skills and knowledge, range statement and the Assessment Guidelines for the Training Package.

Overview of assessment

Critical aspects for assessment and evidence required to demonstrate competency in this unit

Evidence of the ability to:

evaluate a range of vendor products and equipment against a client's functional requirements

choose the most appropriate products

document the selected items and selection rationale.

Context of and specific resources for assessment

Assessment must ensure access to:

client functional requirements

hardware and software specifications from vendors

test procedures and activities.

Where applicable, physical resources should include equipment modified for people with special needs.

Method of assessment

A range of assessment methods should be used to assess practical skills and knowledge. The following examples are appropriate for this unit:

verbal or written questioning to assess candidate’s knowledge of client business domain and appropriate selection criteria

review of reports prepared by candidate showing selected items and selection rationale.

Guidance information for assessment

Holistic assessment with other units relevant to the industry sector, workplace and job role is recommended, where appropriate.

Assessment processes and techniques must be culturally appropriate, and suitable to the communication skill level, language, literacy and numeracy capacity of the candidate and the work being performed.

Indigenous people and other people from a non-English speaking background may need additional support.

In cases where practical assessment is used it should be combined with targeted questioning to assess required knowledge.

Required Skills and Knowledge

Required skills

analytical skills to compare and contrast similar products from different vendors

communication skills to effectively communicate with vendors

literacy skills to identify key sources of product information, summarise and document technical information

numeracy skills to compare prices on different products.

Required knowledge

broad knowledge of:

Australian Computer Society Code of Ethics

client business domain

copyright and intellectual property

current industry-accepted hardware and software products, including their general features and capabilities

detailed knowledge of current and future technical systems

features and function of relevant hardware components and software products and the interaction between these

vendor product and international standards.

Range Statement

The range statement relates to the unit of competency as a whole. It allows for different work environments and situations that may affect performance. Bold italicised wording, if used in the performance criteria, is detailed below. Essential operating conditions that may be present with training and assessment (depending on the work situation, needs of the candidate, accessibility of the item, and local industry and regional contexts) may also be included.

Business requirements may relate to:

business

network

people in the organisation

system.

Client may include:

employees

external organisations

individuals

internal departments.

Standards may include:

Australian Standards (AS)

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC)

International Organization for Standardization (ISO)

International Telecommunications Union (ITU)

Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)

organisational

project.

Rate process may include:

evaluation of:

customer testimonies

support documents.

Solution may include:

hardware upgrades

implementing a new system

new hardware

new software

software upgrades

user training.