Elements and Performance Criteria

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.
Appropriate personnel may include:
network manager
planning manager
project consultant
project manager
vendor contact.
Cut over management plan may include:
additional resources
cut over activities:
address interoperability issues
install new system and equipment
test new system and equipment
integration processes
rapid deployment strategy
risks
roles and responsibilities of personnel
software tools
system outage
test hardware
vendor input
vendor support
vendor warranty.
Outage management plan may include:
alternate transmission path
contingency plan
customers affected
cut over plan
emergency communications
outage duration
outage times
parts of network affected
system backup
systems affected.
Contingency plan may include:
network operations notification
redundancy backup solution
system expert on standby
vendor on standby.
Customers may include:
contractor
end users
other divisions of the company
small, medium or large organisations
vendor or supplier
wholesale service providers.
Tests may include:
alarms
end to end
performance:
bit error rate (BER)
data transmission
quality of service (QoS)
traffic flow:
congestion
delay
latency
packet loss.

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:
develop a contingency plan
implement a cut over plan and an outage plan
apply enterprise escalation and outage procedures
cut over and test network equipment within an industry acceptable time period.
Context of and specific resources for assessment
Assessment must ensure:
a network and equipment for cut over
equipment currently used in industry
systems manuals, specifications and enterprise policy.
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:
direct observation of the candidate undertaking cut over preparations and processes
review of cut over test results and records completed by the candidate
oral or written questioning to assess required knowledge.
Guidance information for assessment
Holistic assessment with other units relevant to the industry sector, workplace and job role is recommended, for example:
ICTTEN5060A Integrate new systems and equipment into the telecommunications network.

Aboriginal people and other people from a non-English speaking background may have second language issues.

Access must be provided to appropriate learning and assessment support when required.

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

In all cases where practical assessment is used it will be combined with targeted questioning to assess required knowledge. Questioning techniques should not require language, literacy and numeracy skills beyond those required in this unit of competency.

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