Release 

Comments 

Release 1

This version first released with ICT Information and Communications Technology Training Package Version 1.0.

ELEMENT 

PERFORMANCE CRITERIA 

Elements describe the essential outcomes.

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

1. Determine client -server software requirements

1.1 Select a client-server solution that best fits the desired outcome for a given scenario

1.2 Select hardware required to implement the client-server solution for the desired outcome

1.3 Select an appropriate host operating system for the client’s server software

2. Obtain and configure server application software according to industry best practice

2.1 Investigate the range of client-server products available for the desired outcome, including commercial and open source

2.2 Identify hardware requirements

2.3 Identify available operating system platforms to host the client-server software

3. Install, configure, and manage services to meet business requirements

3.1 Install client-server software to both server and client hardware according to business guidelines

3.2 Configure the client-server software according to vendor guidelines

3.3 Monitor client-server performance to ensure performance, according to business requirements

3.4 Manage the installation of upgrades and patches to the client-server software environment

3.5 Backup and maintain client-server software

4. Assess configuration effect on overall network design

4.1 Identify appropriate utilities to monitor and determine network performance

4.2 Create network performance benchmarks prior to and on completion of client-server software installation

4.3 Compare benchmarks to assess performance effect on network after installation of client-server software

5. Test and sign off

5.1 Test operation of the client-server software to ensure client requirements are met

5.2 Obtain sign-off from appropriate person

Skill 

Performance Criteria 

Description 

Reading

1.1, 3.1, 3.2

• Recognises and interprets technical and vendor-specific information to determine business requirements

Writing

4.2

• Develops material for a specific audience, using clear and detailed language in order to convey explicit information

Numeracy

4.2, 4.3

• Interprets numerical information to analyse memory, hard disk and performance requirements

Navigate the world of work

3.1, 3.2

• Recognises and follows explicit and implicit protocols, and meets expectations associated with own role

Interact with others

5.2

• Selects the appropriate form, channel and mode of communication for a specific purpose relevant to own role

Get the work done

1.1-1.3, 2.1-2.3, 3.1-3.5, 4.1, 5.1

• Uses logical planning processes and an increasingly intuitive understanding of context to identify relevant information to plan business operating system requirements
• Reflects on the ways in which digital systems and tools are used, or could be used, to achieve work goals, and begins to recognise strategic and operational applications
• Uses familiar digital systems and tools to access, organise, analyse and display relevant information
• Troubleshoots configuration and operational requirements by recognising and anticipating an increasing range of familiar problems, their symptoms and causes

Code and title 

current version 

Code and title 

previous version 

Comments 

Equivalence status 

ICTNWK407 Install and configure client-server applications and services

ICANWK407A Install and configure client-server applications and services

Updated to meet Standards for Training Packages

Equivalent unit

Release 

Comments 

Release 1

This version first released with ICT Information and Communications Technology Training Package Version 1.0.