Kaarten: Unit 1 - IT job profiles | Quizlet

To find out

To discover, either unexpectedly or by searching

To diagnose

To recognize and name the exact character of something, by examining it

To install

To put furniture, a machine, or a piece of equipment into position and make it ready to use

To train

To prepare someone or yourself for a job, activity, or sport, by learning skills and/or by mental or physical exercise

BSc

Bachelor of Science

Pragmatic

Solving problems in a sensible way that suits the current existing condition, rather than obeying fixed theories, ideas or rules

Ad hoc

Not planned before it happened

Actuary

A person who calculates how likely accidents, such as fire, flood, or loss of property, are to happen, and tells insurance companies how much they should charge their customers

Undergraduate

A student who is studying for their first degree at a college or university

Major (AmE)

The main subject that a college or university student is studying, or the student himself or herself

Data lake

A centralized repository that allows you to store all your structured and unstructured data at any scale

Off the shelf

Something that is taken from something that already exists, instead of something that you have created yourself

Proxy

Gateway between you and the Internet

Query

Keywords you use to look for data

Policy

Guideline(s) that have been officially agreed by a group of people

To upgrade

To improve the quality or usefulness of something, or change it for something newer or of a better standard

To add

To put two or more numbers or amounts together to get a total

To design

To make or draw plans for something

To evaluate

To judge or calculate the quality, importance, amount, or value of something

To analyze

To study something in a systematic and careful way

To understand

To know why or how something happens or works

To repair

To put something that is damaged, broken, or not working correctly, back into good condition or make it work again

To update

To make something more modern or suitable for use now by adding new information or changing its design

To determine

To control or influence something directly, or to decide what will happen

To collaborate

To work with someone else for a special purpose or on a particular project

To implement

To start using a plan or system

To test

To do something in order to discover if something is is safe, works correctly, etc., or if something is present

To plan

To think about and decide what you are going to do, and/or how, when, where etc. you are going to do it

White-collar worker/clerk

Someone who has a desk job at an office

To troubleshoot

To solve a problem or to identify and determine the problem with something. Troubleshooting often involves the process of elimination, where a technician follows a set of steps to determine/resolve the problem

MSc

Master of Science

Governance

The way that organizations or countries are managed at the highest level, and the systems for doing this. A controlling influence on something

Stakeholder

A person such as an employee, customer or citizen who is involved with an organization, society, etc. and therefore has responsibilities towards it and an interest in its success

Enroll at/in

To put yourself or someone else onto the official list of members of a course, college, group

Tuition fees

Money that a student pays to a university for his/her teaching

The cutting edge

The most up-to-date stage of development in a particular type of work or activity

Graduate

A person who has obtained a first degree from a university or college

Breadcrumb navigation

The way in which someone finds their way around a website using breadcrumbs or links to previous pages visited

Back-end

Relating to the part of a computer program or system that the user does not see or use

Electronic footprint

When you send a mail or use a credit card, this shows you were you have been and what you have been doing

STEM

Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (as subjects of study)