DEF43115 Certificate IV in Electronic Forensics

Supersededtraining.gov.au: supersededNonEquivalent

The currency period for DEF43115 ended on 19 October 2022 — 3 years ago. It names one replacement below, with the equivalence it declares for each.

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For an RTO registered by ASQA, new enrolments are not permitted today, unless ASQA has approved otherwise — for your organisation, for a class of RTOs, or for all RTOs. The one-year point this rule counts from — one year from the date the replacement was included on the National Register — fell earlier, on 21 October 2023. That date is arithmetic, not a day on which this instrument prohibited anything: s 14(1)(a)(i) of the National Vocational Education and Training Regulator (Compliance Standards for NVR Registered Training Organisations and Fit and Proper Person Requirements) Instrument 2025 (F2025L00355) commenced on 1 July 2025 and imposes nothing before then. RTOs registered by VRQA in Victoria or by the TAC in Western Australia are not covered by it.

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).

A second obligation follows from the same fact: under s 7(2)(c) of the same instrument, advertising may refer to a superseded product only while it is on scope and new enrolments are permitted. For an RTO registered by ASQA, new enrolments in this product are not permitted today, so a course page advertising it is not permitted either — and if ASQA approves a later enrolment date, that moves with it.

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For an ASQA-registered RTO that does not already hold it, adding DEF43122 to scope is a change-of-scope application to ASQA, with a fee set by law: A$200 application fee + A$1,100 assessment fee per application (up to 5 VET courses and 50 units of competency). RTOs registered by a state regulator, and ASQA delegates, sit under other arrangements. Source: NVR Fees Determination 2026, F2026L00814, from 1 July 2026 · read 5 September 2026.

Product type
Qualification
Training package
DEF — Defence Training Package
Currency period ends
19 October 2022
Latest release
Release 1 · 22 October 2015
Supersedes
nothing — no earlier product listed
Superseded by
DEF43122 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. DEF43115Superseded — not equivalentCertificate IV in Electronic Forensics
  2. not equivalent
  3. DEF43122CurrentCertificate IV in Digital Forensics

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.

  • DEF43115DEF43122not equivalent20 October 2022

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

Official documents on the register

What training.gov.au lists for DEF43115 and for its training package DEF (release 7.1), with the name and date the register publishes for each file. We link them; we have not read them, and nothing on this page is taken from their contents.

Is DEF43115 on your scope?

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What DEF43115 is made of

training.gov.au lists 28 units for DEF43115: 5 core and 23 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 5 listed

CodeUnitIn this product
DEFFOR001Inspect, maintain and test electronic forensic equipmentnot current
DEFFOR002Conduct initial electronic investigationnot current
DEFFOR003Gather and analyse electronic informationnot current
DEFFOR004Capture forensic photographic imagesnot current
DEFFOR005Compile and submit electronic media forensic documentationnot current

Elective units 23 listed

CodeUnitIn this product
BSBWHS201Contribute to health and safety of self and othersnot current
BSBWHS301Maintain workplace safetynot current
BSBWHS401Implement and monitor WHS policies, procedures and programs to meet legislative requirementsnot current
BSBWOR501Manage personal work priorities and professional developmentnot current
DEFFOR007Set up, operate and maintain a portable audio recordernot current
DEFGEN001Work in a teamcurrent
DEFGEN005Develop relationships with other organisationscurrent
DEFGEN006Work with equity and diversitycurrent
DEFGEN007Conduct risk assessment in a Defence environmentcurrent
DEFGEN008Treat risk within Defence at an operational levelcurrent
DEFGEN023Capture video imagescurrent
ICAICT206AInstall software applicationsnot current
ICAICT302AInstall and optimise operating system softwarenot current
ICAICT303AConnect internal hardware componentsnot current
ICASAS203AConnect hardware peripheralsnot current
ICASAS205AMaintain IT system integritynot current
PSPGOV315AGive and receive workplace feedbacknot current
PSPLEGN401AEncourage compliance with legislation in the public sectornot current
PSPPM402BManage simple projectsnot current
PSPPM403BClose simple projectsnot current
PSPPM404ACarry out simple project activitiesnot current
PSPPM405AAdminister simple projectsnot current
PUAOPE015AConduct briefings and debriefingsnot 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 14 October 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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