Copy and paste from the following data to produce each assessment task. Write these in plain English and spell out how, when and where the task is to be carried out, under what conditions, and what resources are needed. Include guidelines about how well the candidate has to perform a task for it to be judged satisfactory.
Required skills
analytic skills to interpret capacity requirements
communication skills to:
liaise with internal and external personnel on technical and operational matters
relate to work associates, supervisors, team members and clients
literacy skills to:
interpret technical documentation, such as equipment manuals, specifications and service orders
write reports using standard formats
numeracy skills to estimate costs and calculate return on investments
planning and organisational skills to plan, prioritise and monitor own work and coordinate the capacity measurement process in liaison with others
problem solving and ability to convey solutions to others
task management skills to work systematically with required attention to detail
technical skills to:
select and use appropriate tests to measure cell capacity usage
use teletraffic statistical data.
Required knowledge
blocking, non-blocking and grade of service
Erlang B measurements
features and operating requirements of test equipment
field measurements for cell traffic capacity
information required to:
analyse and interpret statistical data as applied to teletraffic measurement
prepare and conduct a capacity measurement
legislation, codes of practice and other formal agreements that directly impact on radio communications site transmission
overview knowledge of:
transmission lines
transmitter and receiver architecture and their impact on radio communications traffic
switching architecture and in particular space and time switching
types of adjustments that need to be made to procedures to meet the requirements of particular sites and environmental conditions
typical issues and challenges that occur in telecommunications cellular capacity design and how these may be addressed
workplace and industry environment.
The range statement relates to the unit of competency as a whole. It allows for different work environments and situations that may affect performance. Bold italicised wording, if used in the performance criteria, is detailed below. Essential operating conditions that may be present with training and assessment (depending on the work situation, needs of the candidate, accessibility of the item, and local industry and regional contexts) may also be included.
Traffic levels may be found in: | Erlang or centum call seconds (CCS) form per site: circuit switching or packet switching networks hardware units network management tools. |
Customer forecast may include: | simulate decrease in traffic requirement simulate increase in traffic requirement. |
Capacity trigger may include: | ’no service‘ complaints business plan targets or forecast method decisions to target certain clients decisions to target certain sites geographical considerations industry status investigation for improvement of service. |
Coverage includes: | radio base station capacity parameters: available channels per cell available channels per sector. |
Requirements may include: | frequencies hardware requirement radio channels transmission availability. |
Frequency parameters may include: | degree of separation frequencies frequency reuse interference levels signal levels. |
Transmission path and switch resources may include: | transmission capacities: between switching elements on radio path group switch resources. |
Transmission medium may include: | coaxial cable copper cable microwave link optical fibre cable satellite. |
Switch parameter settings may include: | switching architecture for arrangements: routing tables switching routing time-space-time (TST). |
Copy and paste from the following performance criteria to create an observation checklist for each task. When you have finished writing your assessment tool every one of these must have been addressed, preferably several times in a variety of contexts. To ensure this occurs download the assessment matrix for the unit; enter each assessment task as a column header and place check marks against each performance criteria that task addresses.
Observation Checklist