Learning aim C For Distinction standard , learners will evaluate their refined IT support and
management plan and will consider the feedback from others. They will provide
evidence of the feedback they have obtained and show how they have used it.
For example, those parts of the plan that are fully complete and those that may
need further information to fully meet the client’s requirements.
Overall, learners’ evidence will be logically structured and easy to understand by a third
party who may not be an IT professional. Accurate technical language must be used
fluently, along with a good standard of grammar and spelling. If any diagrams are
present then they will be appropriately detailed, fully annotated and technically accurate.
For Merit standard , learners will provide in their evidence a clear, balanced and sound
justification to support decisions taken in their IT support and management plan.
For example, learners may justify the choice of operating system by giving an accurate
and reasoned rationale for their choice. The justification given will mirror the client’s
requirements and be fit for purpose.
Overall, the evidence will be logically structured, technically accurate and easy to
understand.
For Pass standard , learners will produce an IT support and management plan for a
given system that may include diagrams. As a minimum, the plan will cover incident
response, disaster recovery, capacity planning, sustainability and environmental waste
planning, and at least one other aspect of IT support and management. Learners’
evidence will clearly show how the plans adequately meet most of the client’s
requirements.
Learners will review their IT support and management plan with others and use the
feedback to make improvements to the plan. For example, their original plan may lack
detail about how the system is to be protected from external hackers and amend their
plan by adding details about how a firewall can be installed and configured.
Overall, the evidence will be logically structured. It may be generic in parts and/or
contain minor inaccuracies or omissions. For example, learners’ plan may not fully meet
the client’s requirements as it may explain how faults will be reported but it does not
fully explain how they will be escalated if they remain unresolved.