CPPSEC3109Use and maintain security databases and compile reports

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What an assessment for CPPSEC3109 must cover

36 assessable components: 3 elements (16 performance criteria), 1 performance evidence and 13 knowledge evidence requirements, plus 6 foundation skills. An audit-defensible tool maps every question and task back to these — that mapping is the coverage matrix Auditori generates alongside the assessment.

Elements & performance criteria

1 Establish security database and systems.

  • 1.1Review workplace procedures and policies to ensure compliance with legal rights and responsibilities when maintaining and using security databases.
  • 1.2Set up workstation to comply with ergonomic considerations and use work processes that conserve resources.
  • 1.3Use software and hardware to meet data requirements following manufacturers’ specifications.
  • 1.4Monitor and regularly update virus protection software to ensure continuous data integrity and protection.
  • 1.5Confirm data access, security and storage requirements and set up systems to ensure data security and confidentiality.
  • 1.6Set up and follow regular housekeeping, maintenance and back-up procedures.
  • 1.7Implement stand-by database and alternative strategies to address operational faults and deficiencies in database systems.

2 Use and maintain security database.

  • 2.1Confirm and comply with data entry, output and presentation requirements to meet work instructions.
  • 2.2Obtain data from verifiable sources and check for variations in data quality.
  • 2.3Use database functions to input verified data, check data accuracy and quality, and rectify errors.
  • 2.4Diagnose and report errors and lags in data processing or information discrepancies.
  • 2.5Identify faults requiring specialist assistance and organise repairs in consultation with relevant persons.
  • 2.6Monitor database performance and identify and implement measures to improve content, interfaces and effectiveness in consultation with relevant persons.

3 Compile report and improve database and systems.

  • 3.1Produce report in the required format, and check content to confirm accuracy and data compatibility and reliability.
  • 3.2Request and use feedback to improve the effectiveness and performance of database and systems.
  • 3.3Store and protect security data, and complete and maintain documentation with due regard to confidentiality in accordance with workplace requirements.

Performance evidence

  • To demonstrate competency in this unit, a person must use and maintain security databases to compile reports to meet the requirements of two different security assignments. In doing this, the person must meet the performance criteria for this unit.

Knowledge evidence

  • standard operating procedures and workplace policies that ensure compliance with legislative and regulatory requirements when using and maintaining security databases and compiling reports: anti-discrimination and diversity, duty of care, limits of own authority, privacy and surveillance, workplace health and safety (WHS)
  • backup and recovery methodologies used for security databases and systems
  • basic research techniques that can be used to verify sources of security data
  • data analysis techniques
  • data entry procedures and processes
  • database administration, security and storage requirements
  • database functions and diagnostic tools
  • methods for complying with privacy and confidentiality regulations when collecting, storing and disposing of security information
  • methods for conserving energy and resources when using information technologies and their outputs
  • methods for ensuring workstation meets ergonomic requirements
  • presentation and reporting formats used for security data
  • techniques for creating queries and formulae to analyse and process security data
  • types of database software and hardware and their uses

Foundation skills

  • writing skills: produce reports using information technology such as a computer and software; collate and present data in a logical and sequential manner
  • reading skills: interpret: procedures and policies that clarify legal rights and responsibilities; manufacturers’ instructions to correctly set up hardware and database systems; security data that may be technical and numerical in nature, such as database formulae and queries
  • speaking and listening skills: use questions and active listening to clarify and discuss system faults; use paraphrasing to check understanding when receiving spoken feedback to improve systems
  • numeracy skills: interpret and calculate statistical information; use simple mathematical formulae within databases
  • problem solving skills: verify the accuracy of security data; recognise variations in data quality; troubleshoot system problems and identify faults
  • technology skills: use a range of common information technologies to access, store, study, retrieve, transmit and manipulate data and information, for example computer and software packages involving spreadsheets; type and use a keyboard to enter data

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What does an assessment tool for CPPSEC3109 need to cover?

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