DEF40517 Certificate IV in Test and Evaluation

Supersededtraining.gov.au: supersededNonEquivalent

The currency period for DEF40517 ended on 19 October 2022 — 3 years ago. It names one replacement below, with the equivalence it declares for each.

Transition clockClosed to new enrolments

New enrolments are not permitted from 21 October 2023 — one year from the date the replacement was included on the National Register (s 14(1)(a)(i) of the National VET Regulator (Compliance Standards for NVR RTOs and Fit and Proper Person Requirements) Instrument 2025 (F2025L00355, in force 1 July 2025)), or from a later date if ASQA has approved otherwise for your organisation.

Learners already enrolled have no fixed deadline: they complete the product and are issued their AQF certification, or transfer to the replacement, in a timely manner (ASQA guidance, read live 25 August 2026).

The same date closes a second obligation: under s 7(2)(c) of the same instrument, advertising may refer to a superseded product only while it is on scope and new enrolments are permitted. When enrolments stop, the course page advertising it stops being permitted too — and if ASQA approves a later enrolment date, that moves with it.

Sector-wide: the item 14 cut-off, measured across every live scope · the repealed 12-month rule

Product type
Qualification
Training package
DEF — Defence Training Package
Currency period ends
19 October 2022
Latest release
Release 1 · 17 August 2017
Supersedes
DEF42412
Superseded by
DEF41022 not equivalent

Where the register points next

Each step below is one supersession training.gov.au publishes between two products. The label on the rail is the equivalence the register declares for that step — not our reading of it.

  1. DEF40517Superseded — not equivalentCertificate IV in Test and Evaluation
  2. not equivalent
  3. DEF41022CurrentCertificate IV in Test and Evaluation

What the register says changed

These are the mapping notes training.gov.au attaches to each supersession, quoted as the register writes them. They are the only public record of what actually changed between two versions.

  • DEF42412DEF40517not equivalent16 August 2017

    Core units increased from 7 to 8

  • DEF40517DEF41022not equivalent20 October 2022

    The register records this supersession but attaches no note on what changed.

Is DEF40517 on your scope?

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Whether a supersession requires anything of you, and what, sits with you and your regulator. This page maps what the register records; it does not make that judgement. If the difference between an equivalent and a non-equivalent replacement is the question, we wrote it up in equivalent vs not equivalent.

What DEF40517 is made of

training.gov.au lists 17 units for DEF40517: 8 core and 9 elective. The register does not publish a completion rule in units for this product, so we do not state one. How many of the electives are required is in the packaging rules on training.gov.au.

Core units 8 listed

CodeUnitIn this product
DEFGEN008Treat risk within Defence at an operational levelcurrent
DEFGEN012Provide technical advicecurrent
DEFTST001Plan testing and evaluation processesnot current
DEFTST002Prepare testing and evaluation processesnot current
DEFTST003Conduct testing processesnot current
DEFTST004Evaluate testingcurrent
DEFTST005Produce test and evaluation reportsnot current
DEFTST006Analyse test datacurrent

Elective units 9 listed

CodeUnitIn this product
BSBPMG409Apply project scope management techniquesnot current
BSBPMG413Apply project human resources management approachesnot current
BSBPMG414Apply project information management and communications techniquesnot current
BSBPMG417Apply project life cycle management processesnot current
BSBPMG522Undertake project worknot current
DEFGEN005Develop relationships with other organisationscurrent
DEFGEN011Interpret policy, legislation and regulationscurrent
PSPGEN024Use resources to achieve work unit goalsnot current
PSPGEN027Gather and analyse informationnot current

Core and elective are the register's own flags on the unit grid of the release read here. "Not current" means training.gov.au no longer recommends that unit for use inside this product — it does not say anything about the product itself.

Source: this product on training.gov.au, Australia's national training register — or go straight to the units it requires. The rule itself is item 14 of F2025L00355, and ASQA publishes the extensions it has granted. Read on 28 August 2026 UTC. Every code, title, date, status and equivalence flag on this page is the register's; nothing here is estimated or inferred, and where the register publishes nothing we say so.

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