BCS Foundation Certificate in Digital Solution Development

There are no pre-requisites for this training course.

BCS Foundation Certificate in Digital Solution Development Exam

The certification exam can be registered and attempted within 3 months of course/module completion at Logitrain training centre on weekdays during normal business hours (excludes public holidays)

• The context for digital solution development
• Digital service definition
• User Experience (UX) and User Interface (UI)
• Digital solution architecture and design
• Data and information architecture and design
• Quality assurance and quality control
• Digital Solution acquisition, deployment and maintenance
• Cyber security

Anyone involved in or affected by the development of IS / IT systems. This includes, but is not limited to, business and systems analysts, software developers, designers, testers and those in a non-IT discipline who are seeking to work in a consulting capacity.

• The context for digital solution development
• Define and distinguish between the terms digital service and digital solution an
• recognise some common characteristics of modern digital solutions
• Digital service as a use of information technology to solve business
• problems. Digital Solution as the technology solution employed to
• provide the service
• Explain the factors that influence investment in digital solution development
• Understand that internal and external drivers lead to the formulation of
• corporate strategy.
• Describe the scope of digital solution development
• Recognise examples of constraints that commonly affect DSD from the following
• list
• Recognise the need for Requirements Engineering, its key elements and bnefits
• Identify common sources of requirements and classify different types of
• requirements
• • Describe the use of the following requirements documentation and modelling
  • techniques
  • Explain the purpose of some common requirements management techniques
  • Recognise the definition of the following fundamental terms commonly used in
  • UI/UX and explain their significance for UI design.
  • Define architecture and understand the importance of architecture in developing
  • a successful digital solution. Candidates will be able to recognise certain
  • architectural styles and patterns and describe their benefits and drawbacks.
  • Identify the key elements of a typical contemporary Digital Solution and explain
  • the role that each part plays in the overall architecture
  • Recognise and identify some of the issues that are inherent in a distributed
  • systems architecture, and explain typical design trade-offs and solutions to these
  • issues
  • Distinguish between data, information and information systems and recognize
  • distinct views of the components of an information system
  • Explain the rationale for the architecture and design of data
  • Distinguish between quality assurance and quality control
  • Describe the fundamentals of software testing
  • Digital solution acquisition, deployment and maintenance
  • Explain the importance of having secure systems. Recognise that Cyber Security
  • Sits within the wider context of ERM. Identify standards applicable in this area and have an overview level of understanding of the scope of each