ICA40511 Certificate IV in Programming

Supersededtraining.gov.au: supersededEquivalent

The currency period for ICA40511 ended on 23 March 2015 — 11 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 25 March 2016 — 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The same date closes a second obligation: under s 7(2)(c) of the same instrument, advertising may refer to a superseded product only while it is on scope and new enrolments are permitted.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Sector-wide: the item 14 cut-off, measured across every live scope · the repealed 12-month rule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
ICA11 — Information and Communications Technology Training Package
Currency period ends
23 March 2015
Latest release
Release 2 · 7 November 2013 · 2 releases in all
Supersedes
ICA40505
Superseded by
ICT40515 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. ICA40511Superseded — equivalentCertificate IV in Programming
  2. equivalent
  3. ICT40515Superseded — equivalentCertificate IV in Programming
  4. equivalent
  5. ICT40518Superseded — not equivalentCertificate IV in Programming
  6. not equivalent
  7. ICT40120CurrentCertificate IV in Information Technology

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.

  • ICA40505ICA40511equivalent17 July 2011

    ICA40505 core units updated and reduced. Removal of entry requirements and prerequisites. Qualification made more flexible. Elective units added and technical content updated. OUTCOMES DEEMED EQUIVALENT.

  • ICA40511ICT40515equivalent24 March 2015

    Updated to meet Standards for Training Packages.

Is ICA40511 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 ICA40511 is made of

training.gov.au lists 30 units for ICA40511: 10 core and 20 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 10 listed

CodeUnitIn this product
ICAICT418AContribute to copyright, ethics and privacy in an IT environmentnot current
ICAPRG402AApply query languagenot current
ICAPRG403ADevelop data-driven applicationsnot current
ICAPRG404ATest applicationsnot current
ICAPRG405AAutomate processesnot current
ICAPRG406AApply introductory object-oriented language skillsnot current
ICAPRG410ABuild a user interfacenot current
ICAPRG414AApply introductory programming skills in another languagenot current
ICAPRG415AApply skills in object-oriented designnot current
ICAPRG419AAnalyse software requirementsnot current

Elective units 20 listed

CodeUnitIn this product
BSBCRT401AArticulate, present and debate ideasnot current
BSBWHS304AParticipate effectively in WHS communication and consultation processesnot current
ICADBS403ACreate basic databasesnot current
ICAICT404AUse online learning toolsnot current
ICAICT408ACreate technical documentationnot current
ICAICT417AIdentify, evaluate and apply current industry-specific technologies to meet industry standardsnot current
ICAICT420ADevelop client user interfacenot current
ICAPMG401ASupport small scale IT projectsnot current
ICAPRG401AMaintain open-source code programsnot current
ICAPRG407AWrite script for software applicationsnot current
ICAPRG409ADevelop mobile applicationsnot current
ICAPRG412AConfigure and maintain databasesnot current
ICAPRG413AUse a library or pre-existing componentsnot current
ICAPRG418AApply intermediate programming skills in another languagenot current
ICAPRG427AUse XML effectivelynot current
ICAPRG428AUse regular expressions in programming languagesnot current
ICAPRG527AApply intermediate object-oriented language skillsnot current
ICASAD401ADevelop and present feasibility reportsnot current
ICASAD501AModel data objectsnot current
ICASAD502AModel data processesnot 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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