Online Class Notes (Joe)

In today’s class, we talked about the technical vocabulary which you asked me to research for you.

Vocabulary

My friend who helped me with this said “Some of these are programming concepts and to understand those you’d have to understand to programming as well. But, I will try to explain it in layman’s terms”.

Premium products sets – This means that you have a suite of products that may fulfil multiple user requirements, kinda like Microsoft Office has Word, Excel and Powerpoint. They are all part of the same premium product set.

Downtime – The time during which a machine, especially a computer, is out of action or unavailable for use. We had some downtime because the OS crashed.

Draw down – This refers to decommissioning of old tech that has become obsolete. After floppy discs became obsolete we had to draw down all the floppy disc drives from our systems.

Attribute mastering and cleanup – normally attributes are values associated to a concept, so you may have a class that represents a vehicle and then it may have attributes like “licence plate”, “colour” etc. associated to that asset so you can then make instances of this class that represent different physical vehicles and assign the attributes of each instance to represent the actual representation of each physical vehicle. To master and clean up attributes has to do with the logical arrangement of these classes and their attributes.

Risk breaking changes – If you implement some piece of software that parses text, and it initially only did numbers and then you had to extend it to allow for letters but you did this without allowing for special letters like ê, ë etc, and then someone uses your system thinking that it allows special characters and then your system fails and downtime is caused. The changes you made to the system that caused the downtime are risk breaking changes.

Accertify – My friend who is the HOD of a large IT company said “I have no idea what this means. I looked on Google and could only find that Accertify is the name of a company that helps to prevent digital identity fraud.”

Pronunciation

decommission – di ko mi shin

live – short i

leave – long i:

Vocabulary

deliver – used for packages, messages and news
He delivered a package to my office.

delegate – used to give a task to another person
I delegated the task to someone who was more proficient in drawing down obsolete hardware.