BTEC International Level 2 Engineering

Unit 29: Unit 29 — assessment criteria

BTEC International Level 2 Unit 29 (Unit 29) — 30 Guided Learning Hours.

Internal / Optional30 GLH10 criteria3 learning aims
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Assessment criteria

Reproduced verbatim from the Pearson specification — the same grid the assignment brief carries. A unit grade is the highest band where all criteria in that band (and every band below it) are met.

Pass

5 criteria
A.P1Describe cyber security threats that can affect an engineering IT system
A.P2Describe how protection techniques can help to defend the vulnerabilities in an engineering IT system from cyber security threats.
B.P3Discuss the principles of information security and how different types of cyber security threat can affect and engineering IT system.
C.P4Apply routine methods to protect an engineering IT system from cyber security threats appropriately.
C.P5Apply appropriate methods to protect an engineering IT system from cyber security threats, testing the system functions as intended

Merit

3 criteria
A.M1Discuss how different types of protection techniques can help to defend the vulnerabilities in an engineering IT system from cyber security threats.
B.M2Evaluate the principles of information security and the use of different types of protection techniques to defend the vulnerabilities in an engineering IT system from different cyber security threats
C.M3Optimise an appropriate range of methods to protect an engineering IT system from cyber security threats, testing the system functions as intended.

Distinction

2 criteria
AB.D1Sources of information
C.D2Sources of information

Command verbs in this unit

The verb decides the depth expected — that is what separates Pass from Merit and Distinction work on the same learning aim.

DescribeDiscussApplyEvaluateOptimiseSources
Pearson's ladder runs Identify → Describe → Explain → Compare / Analyse → Evaluate / Justify / Assess. A Merit or Distinction criterion on the same aim always implies the Pass beneath it: an “evaluate” answer that never first “explains” fails, however polished it reads. Hover a verb for what it demands.

Learning aims

  • A. Investigate information security and cyber security threats to engineering IT systems
  • B. Investigate techniques to protect data and information in engineering IT systems
  • C. Implement methods to protect an engineering IT system from security threats

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