Diploma in Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence

DITA-101 Digital and IT Foundations

• Computer systems
• Hardware, software and firmware
• Digital data
• Binary, decimal and hexadecimal
• File systems
• Command-line fundamentals
• IT careers and professional documentation

DITA-102 Computer Hardware and Operating Systems

• Computer hardware
• CPU, memory and storage
• Windows operating systems
• Linux introduction
• User accounts and permissions
• Virtual machines
• Troubleshooting
• System administration fundamentals

DITA-103 Digital Workplace Productivity and Social Media

• Microsoft Word
• Microsoft Excel
• Formulas and functions
• Pivot tables and charts
• Professional presentations
• Cloud collaboration
• Social media content planning
• Engagement analytics

DITA-104 Networking and Internet Fundamentals

• LAN and WAN
• Network devices
• OSI and TCP/IP
• MAC addressing
• IPv4 addressing
• Subnetting and VLSM
• IPv6 awareness
• DHCP, DNS and NAT
• HTTP, HTTPS and TLS
• Wi-Fi security
• Packet capture
• Network troubleshooting

DITA-105 Cloud Computing

• Cloud fundamentals
• IaaS, PaaS and SaaS
• Public, private and hybrid cloud
• Shared responsibility
• Cloud identity
• Users, groups and roles
• MFA and Single Sign-On
• Cloud storage
• Virtual networking
• Availability
• Cost management
• Cloud security risks

DITA-106 Cybersecurity and Ethical Hacking

• CIA triad and defence in depth
• Threat actors, malware and phishing
• Social engineering
• Cryptography, hashing, certificates and PKI
• Firewalls, IDS / IPS and segmentation
• VPN and Zero Trust
• Security monitoring and SOC fundamentals
• Incident response
• Reconnaissance and OSINT
• Network scanning and vulnerability identification
• Introductory web security
• Security reporting

Offensive-security activities are supervised and performed only against authorised laboratory targets.

DITA-107 Identity, Endpoint, Data and Online Security

• Strong authentication
• Password managers, MFA and passkeys
• Access control and privileged access
• Endpoint protection and patch management
• Disk encryption
• Backup strategies, RPO and RTO
• Ransomware resilience
• Data classification and secure deletion
• Social media privacy and digital footprint
• Deepfakes and identity abuse

DITA-108 Web Technologies and Databases

• Client-server architecture and HTTP
• HTML and CSS
• Responsive design
• Relational databases
• Database normalisation and ER diagrams
• SQL and CRUD operations
• Joins
• APIs, REST and JSON
• OWASP awareness
• SQL injection defence
• Cross-site scripting awareness

DITA-109 Python Programming and Automation with AI

• Python fundamentals
• Variables, data types and conditions
• Loops, data structures and functions
• Files, CSV and JSON
• pandas introduction
• Error handling and debugging
• Git and GitHub
• AI-assisted coding and code verification
• Automation and scheduled scripts

Students are expected to understand and explain AI-assisted code rather than simply submit generated output.

DITA-110 Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Fundamentals

• AI, Machine Learning and Deep Learning
• Supervised, unsupervised and reinforcement learning
• Datasets, cleaning and features
• Training and testing
• Regression and decision trees
• Random forests and K-nearest neighbours
• K-means and neural-network concepts
• Accuracy, precision, recall and F1 score
• Overfitting, bias and explainability

DITA-111 Generative AI and Prompt Engineering

• Large Language Models
• Tokens, embeddings and transformer concepts
• Context windows and AI hallucinations
• Prompt structure
• Zero-shot and few-shot prompting
• Structured prompting
• AI-assisted writing, coding and data work
• Image generation awareness
• RAG and AI agents awareness
• Verification of AI output
• Responsible professional AI use

DITA-112 Digital Marketing

• Digital marketing channels
• Audience segmentation
• Campaign planning
• Meta and search advertising
• SEO fundamentals
• Landing pages
• Lead generation
• WhatsApp conversion
• Campaign analytics
• AI-assisted content production

DITA-113 AI Security, Responsible AI, Privacy and Ethics

• Prompt injection and AI data leakage
• AI-enhanced phishing
• Training-data poisoning
• Deepfakes and voice cloning
• Shadow AI and supply-chain risks
• Privacy and data minimisation
• Bias, fairness and explainability
• Responsible AI and human oversight
• AI policies and incident response

DITA-114 Data Visualisation with Power BI

• Power BI Desktop and Service
• Excel, CSV and database connections
• Power Query and data cleaning
• Data modelling and star schema
• DAX fundamentals
• Dashboards
• Filters and slicers
• Publishing and sharing
• Access control and data governance