{"id":4364,"date":"2025-06-09T09:36:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T08:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/?p=4364"},"modified":"2025-06-09T09:36:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T08:36:10","slug":"technology-units-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/technology-units-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Technology units update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">At last year&#8217;s QST (Qualification Support Team) meeting, a proposal to amend the following units was approved. The changes are minimal. For example, the units no longer specify how many MCQs are required in the assessment. The dated information has also been removed from the Support Notes of the unit specifications. The updated units are now published on the SQA website and you can access them via the links below:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li class=\"x_x_x_x_MsoNormal\">FR24 35 Networking Technology &#8211;\u00a0<u><a title=\"Original URL: https:\/\/www.sqa.org.uk\/files\/hn\/FR2435.pdf. Click or tap if you trust this link.\" href=\"https:\/\/eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sqa.org.uk%2Ffiles%2Fhn%2FFR2435.pdf&amp;data=05%7C02%7CHelen.Zhang%40sqa.org.uk%7Cfdb64759538f4017c64408dd6096ad94%7C2bc4b4d8b4154f6c8bb82c2985d7171f%7C0%7C0%7C638772922741606812%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=ihSQTLKCh3rpAuXmU2c8ZOOvreT0HZiWPxpis2mlygk%3D&amp;reserved=0\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\">national unit specification: general information<\/a><\/u><\/li>\n<li class=\"x_x_x_x_MsoNormal\">FR23 35 Switching Technology &#8211;\u00a0<u><a title=\"Original URL: https:\/\/www.sqa.org.uk\/files\/hn\/FR2335.pdf. Click or tap if you trust this link.\" href=\"https:\/\/eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sqa.org.uk%2Ffiles%2Fhn%2FFR2335.pdf&amp;data=05%7C02%7CHelen.Zhang%40sqa.org.uk%7Cfdb64759538f4017c64408dd6096ad94%7C2bc4b4d8b4154f6c8bb82c2985d7171f%7C0%7C0%7C638772922741621946%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=5GOzl5TH0IJscpll1Q1bX6F3%2F7v%2BVx0jeB3YTUII6K4%3D&amp;reserved=0\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\">national unit specification: general information<\/a><\/u><\/li>\n<li class=\"x_x_x_x_MsoNormal\">FR25 35 Internetworking Technology &#8211;\u00a0<u><a title=\"Original URL: https:\/\/www.sqa.org.uk\/files\/hn\/FR2535.pdf. Click or tap if you trust this link.\" href=\"https:\/\/eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sqa.org.uk%2Ffiles%2Fhn%2FFR2535.pdf&amp;data=05%7C02%7CHelen.Zhang%40sqa.org.uk%7Cfdb64759538f4017c64408dd6096ad94%7C2bc4b4d8b4154f6c8bb82c2985d7171f%7C0%7C0%7C638772922741638417%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=OvFiFUBl2icl%2Br%2B2dIkFJGZjX9aQi%2BdZRd4qxCX1MV0%3D&amp;reserved=0\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\">national unit specification: general information<\/a><\/u><\/li>\n<li class=\"x_x_x_x_MsoNormal\">FR22 35 Routing Technology &#8211;<u><a title=\"Original URL: https:\/\/www.sqa.org.uk\/files\/hn\/FR2235.pdf. Click or tap if you trust this link.\" href=\"https:\/\/eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sqa.org.uk%2Ffiles%2Fhn%2FFR2235.pdf&amp;data=05%7C02%7CHelen.Zhang%40sqa.org.uk%7Cfdb64759538f4017c64408dd6096ad94%7C2bc4b4d8b4154f6c8bb82c2985d7171f%7C0%7C0%7C638772922741661259%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=fbDzxEXUzp47yx1yldCWzPHWru4UN6SXJhLvMc%2F8tsE%3D&amp;reserved=0\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\">national unit specification: general information<\/a><\/u><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Please get in touch with <a href=\"mailto:helen.zhang@sqa.org.uk\">me<\/a> if you have any queries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At last year&#8217;s QST (Qualification Support Team) meeting, a proposal to amend the following units was approved. The changes are minimal. For example, the units no longer specify how many MCQs are required in the assessment. 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The updated units are now published on the SQA website and you can access them via the links below:\u00a0 FR24 35 Networking Technology &#8211;\u00a0national unit specification: general information FR23&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4364"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4365,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4364\/revisions\/4365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}