Release 

Comments 

Release 1

This version first released with ICT Information and Communications Technology Training Package Version 6.0.

ELEMENT 

PERFORMANCE CRITERIA 

Elements describe the essential outcomes.

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

1. Determine database requirements

1.1 Conduct user-needs analysis with required personnel and determine database functionality requirements

1.2 Determine user-needs analysis technical requirements

1.3 Develop conceptual model of database according to organisational requirements

1.4 Submit conceptual model to required personnel

1.5 Seek and respond to feedback and make required changes

2. Develop logical data model

2.1 Identify attributes and determine data types

2.2 Undertake normalisation of attributes

2.3 Develop entity-relationship (ER) diagram and clarify cardinality of relationships

2.4 Document attributes, normalised data and ER diagram

2.5 Submit documentation to required personnel and seek and respond to feedback

3. Design data structures

3.1 Confirm primary and foreign keys according to technical requirements

3.2 Identify referential integrity constraints and organisational business rules

3.3 Establish database management system constraints and incorporate into database design

3.4 Design and develop data validation rules, indexes and data dictionary

3.5 Document database design according to organisational policies and procedures

4. Design queries, screens and reports

4.1 Design database according to organisational requirements

4.2 Design required queries and output reports

4.3 Compare physical design against conceptual model and user-needs analysis

4.4 Incorporate all required changes into database design

5. Design access and security systems

5.1 Review existing business security plan and use as design base

5.2 Design database password and access system

5.3 Identify multiple-user requirements

5.4 Develop required organisational access profiles

6. Confirm database design

6.1 Determine database backup and recovery requirements

6.2 Develop and document database backup and restore procedures

6.3 Submit database and documentation to required personnel

6.4 Seek and respond to feedback from required personnel

6.5 Obtain final task sign off from required personnel

S KILL 

DESCRIPTION 

Numeracy

• Makes measurements and performs calculations for work layout, determine field lengths and table size and estimate database size

Oral communication

• Uses listening and questioning techniques to confirm information and requirements using industry language for intended audience

Reading

• Interprets textual information obtained from a range of sources and determines how content may be applied to requirements

Writing

• Develops documentation detailing data model and design using appropriate structure, layout and specialised technical and programming language

Planning and organising

• Uses a combination of formal, logical planning processes and an increasingly intuitive understanding of context to identify relevant information and risks, identify and evaluate alternative strategies and resources

Problem solving

• Uses systematic, analytical processes in complex, non-routine situations, setting goals, gathering relevant information, and identifying and evaluating options against the agreed criteria

Technology

• Identifies key principles and concepts underpinning the design, and operation, of digital systems and tools

Release 

Comments 

Release 1

This version first released with ICT Information and Communications Technology Training Package Version 6.0.