Core Body of Knowledge - 1224-11

Author Profile

• More the 20 years IT experience at 6 companies in Germany and Switzerland.
• The companies are completely different - pharmaceutical production, telecommunication, cable-TV, investment bank, manufacturer of railway vehicles and a manufacturer of sawing machines.
• Roles have been System Manager, Team Leader, Project Leader, Service Manager.
• The projects were mainly in the area of IT Infrastructure (Operating Systems, Server & Workstations, Networks, SAN, Disaster Recovery), not in the area of Software development.
• Educated to Diploma in Mechanical Engineering.
• More than 50 additional IT relevant and management courses and trainings.

ASCO 1224-11 CBOK Example

Complete RPL application form including Project Reports

This includes all the CBOK sections detailed below and both Project Reports for this RPL.

1. Computer Organisation and Architecture

"My first contact with a computer was in the early 1980s, when I had a C64, and shortly later an Atari ST. With self studying I started already at this time to meet my interests, how a computer works and which components it has..."

2. Conceptual Modelling

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3. Database Management

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4. Data Communications and Networks

"I started my professional career as a System Manager for VMS systems. When my employing company bought the second Server in 1986 I got my first confrontation with a network. It was in my responsibility to connect both computers together..."

5. Data Structures and Algorithms

"All of the programs I have developed, was it in FORTRAN or a scripting language, I needed the understanding of different data types. I learned to use the right data type for the right problem, if it was numbers like integer or real, or strings and substrings, or arrays for complex functions..."

6. Discrete Mathematics

"During my formal University education to a Mechanical Engineer I had lectures in Mathematics, and in "Principles of Electrical Engineering" and "Principles of Information Systems", which also contained lessons in Mathematics..."

7. Ethics / Social Implications / Professional Practice

"I am very confident about my high level of moral as well as my high ethical and professional standards. I treat people in the same way I want them to treat me. Many of my work references, which are also part of this application, contain expressions which evidence my tribute to colleagues..."

8. Interpersonal Communications

"During my career I had various formal trainings which taught myself how professional discussions and meetings could be effective, how conflicts could be resolved and how communication tools generally should be used to be efficient..."

9. Program Design and Implementation

"I wrote my first computer program on a programmable CASIO calculator at school and later a few small BASIC programs on my C64 and C-programs on my Atari ST. I never saw the goal of my career to be a programmer..."

10. Project Management and Quality Assurance

"I look back of nearly 20 years professional experience in Project Management. When I started my career, I was involved in small projects as a project team member and I lead small projects by myself. The methods in the beginning have not been very structured..."

11. Security

"I am confronted with IT security mechanisms since I started to work with a multi-user environment nearly 20 years ago. I learned in my many VMS related trainings about basic security features like common password policies..."

12. Software Engineering and Methodologies

"According to the CBOK this area contains mainly the two topics "Fundamentals of Software Engineering" and "Project Management". Since project planning, estimation and controls, project evaluation and control techniques, team construction and..."

13. Systems Analysis and Design

"In the CBOK the list of topics for this area is huge, I have learnings and experiences in only a few of them. During my career I learned from the beginning what roles Information Systems in an Organisations could have..."

14. Systems Software

"I started my career as an IT System Manager and managed throughout the years first the Operating System VMS only, and later also Unix systems and Windows systems. I did many formal trainings to get used to all deep details of all the different Operating Systems..."

Brief Summary of Conclusions

"I started my professional IT career about 20 years ago. During my University education to an Mechanical Engineer I already started my interests and my education to get an IT specialist. I am mainly educated in all areas of IT infrastructure but not in software development ..."