Release 

Comments 

Release 1

This version first released with ICT Information and Communications Technology Training Package Version 4.0.

ELEMENT 

PERFORMANCE CRITERIA 

Elements describe the essential outcomes.

Performance criteria describe the performance needed to demonstrate achievement of the element.

1. Confirm the database design

1.1 Review database design documentation, including data structures, queries, reports, and user interfaces to identify organisational data management, access and security requirements

1.2 Evaluate sufficiency of database access and security feature design to organisational data security plan

1.3 Document and rectify inconsistencies between database design and organisational data security plan

2. Create a prototype database

2.1 Develop prototype database according to database design

2.2 Populate database tables with current organisational data to test database implementation

2.3 Write conversion programs to import data from existing systems in accordance with scope specified in database design documentation

2.4 Assess functionality of prototype with user, including identifying errors in program code and modifying user interfaces and reports

2.5 Incorporate feedback from user into prototype

2.6 Obtain user approval of prototype

3. Deploy the database

3.1 Develop implementation plan for database aligned with user acceptance criteria

3.2 Install database management system software on network in accordance with implementation plan

3.3 Populate database tables with organisational data in accordance with implementation plan

3.4 Implement security and access controls in accordance with database design documentation and implementation plan

3.5 Test and document database output and security controls, and record results in accordance with database design documentation

4. Evaluate the database

4.1 Review the database against user acceptance criteria and rectify discrepancies

4.2 Complete database documentation in accordance with user acceptance criteria

4.3 Identify and document user training requirements from database design documentation

4.4 Seek and secure user acceptance of database in accordance with user acceptance criteria

Skill 

Description 

Reading

• Analyses and interprets textual information in order to establish client system requirements and establish design inconsistencies

Writing

• Uses appropriate technical terminology in recording test results and discrepancies
• Produces reports and documentation that are cohesive and well-structured, in order to convey detailed and accurate information, and instructions

Oral Communication

• Uses active listening, questioning and summarising skills to establish client requirements, training needs and when seeking product or stage approval

Interact with others

• Recognises and applies the protocols governing what to communicate, with whom, and how

Get the work done

• Sequences and schedules complex activities, monitors implementation and manages relevant communication
• Uses a formal decision-making process, setting or clarifying goals, gathering information, and identifying and evaluating several choices, against a limited set of criteria
• Uses analytical processes to decide on a course of action, establishing criteria for deciding between different options

Code and title 

current version 

Code and title 

previous version 

Comments 

Equivalence status 

ICTDBS415 Build a database

ICTDBS412 Build a database

Minor updates to elements 1–4 to clarify intent.

Edits to assessment requirements to clarify intent.

Equivalent unit

Release 

Comments 

Release 1

This version first released with ICT Information and Communications Technology Training Package Version 4.0.