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system configurator

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System configurators tailor a computer system to the organisation's and users' needs. They adjust the base system and software to the needs of the customer. They perform configuration activities and scripting and ensure communication with users.

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Competences
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Groups
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Essential
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Optional
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Competences and skills

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Essential knowledge 6 competences

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ICT infrastructure

The system, network, hardware and software applications and components, as well as devices and processes that are used in order to develop, test, deliver, monitor, control or support ICT services.

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ICT performance analysis methods

The methods used to analyse software, ICT system and network performance which provide guidance to root causes of issues within information systems. The methods can analyse resource bottlenecks, application times, wait latencies and benchmarking results.

digital
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ICT system user requirements

The process intended to match user and organisation's needs with system components and services, by taking into consideration the available technologies and the techniques required to elicit and specify requirements, interrogating users to establish symptoms of problem and analysing symptoms.

digital
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service-oriented modelling

The principles and fundamentals of service-oriented modelling for business and software systems that allow the design and specification of service-oriented business systems within a variety of architectural styles, such as enterprise architecture and application architecture.

digital
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Cross-sector

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cognitive psychology

The human mental processes such as attention, memory, language use, perception, problem solving, creativity and thinking.

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digital systems

Systems to store, process and spread information in digital form. They are hardware, software and networks, as well as the ways in which these can be employed.

digital
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Essential skills and competences 10 competences

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analyse software specifications

Assess the specifications of a software product or system to be developed by identifying functional and non-functional requirements, constraints and possible sets of use cases which illustrate interactions between the software and its users.

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configure ICT system

Set up and customise an ICT system to meet requirements during initial implementation as well as when new business needs arise.

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develop automated migration methods

Create automated transfer of ICT information between storage types, formats and systems to save human resources from performing the task manually.

digital
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integrate system components

Select and use integration techniques and tools to plan and implement integration of hardware and software modules and components in a system.

digital
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interpret technical texts

Read and understand technical texts that provide information on how to perform a task, usually explained in steps.

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migrate existing data

Apply migration and conversion methods for existing data, in order to transfer or convert data between formats, storage or computer systems.

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replicate customer software issues

Use specialised tools to replicate and analyse the conditions that caused the set of software states or outputs reported by the customer in order to provide adequate solutions.

digital
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Cross-sector

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collect customer feedback on applications

Gather a response and analyse data from customers to identify requests or problems in order to improve applications and overall customer satisfaction.

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create flowchart diagram

Compose a diagram that illustrates systematic progress through a procedure or system using connecting lines and a set of symbols.

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define technical requirements

Specify technical properties of goods, materials, methods, processes, services, systems, software and functionalities by identifying and responding to the particular needs that are to be satisfied according to customer requirements.

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Optional knowledge 72 competences

Occupation specific

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Sector-specific

70 competences
ABAP

The techniques and principles of software development, such as analysis, algorithms, coding, testing and compiling of programming paradigms in ABAP.

digital
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AJAX

The techniques and principles of software development, such as analysis, algorithms, coding, testing and compiling of programming paradigms in AJAX.

digital
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APL

The techniques and principles of software development, such as analysis, algorithms, coding, testing and compiling of programming paradigms in APL.

digital
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ASP.NET

The techniques and principles of software development, such as analysis, algorithms, coding, testing and compiling of programming paradigms in ASP.NET.

digital
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Assembly (computer programming)

The techniques and principles of software development, such as analysis, algorithms, coding, testing and compiling of programming paradigms in Assembly.

digital
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C#

The techniques and principles of software development, such as analysis, algorithms, coding, testing and compiling of programming paradigms in C#.

digital
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C++

The techniques and principles of software development, such as analysis, algorithms, coding, testing and compiling of programming paradigms in C++.

digital
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CA Datacom/DB

The computer program CA Datacom/DB is a tool for creating, updating and managing databases, currently developed by the software company CA Technologies.

digital
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cloud technologies

The technologies which enable access to hardware, software, data and services through remote servers and software networks irrespective of their location and architecture.

digital
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COBOL

The techniques and principles of software development, such as analysis, algorithms, coding, testing and compiling of programming paradigms in COBOL.

digital
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CoffeeScript

The techniques and principles of software development, such as analysis, algorithms, coding, testing and compiling of programming paradigms in CoffeeScript.

digital
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Common Lisp

The techniques and principles of software development, such as analysis, algorithms, coding, testing and compiling of programming paradigms in Common Lisp.

digital
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core banking software

The selection of software for core banking activities management (e.g. deposits, payments, loans, bank transactions, customer data) and other functions related to banking.

digital
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data storage

The physical and technical concepts of how digital data storage is organised in specific schemes both locally, such as hard-drives and random-access memories (RAM) and remotely, via network, internet or cloud.

digital
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database management systems

The tools for creating, updating and managing databases, such as Oracle, MySQL and Microsoft SQL Server.

digital
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DB2

The computer program IBM DB2 is a tool for creating, updating and managing databases, developed by the software company IBM.

digital
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embedded systems

The computer systems and components with a specialised and autonomous function within a larger system or machine such as embedded systems software architectures, embedded peripherals, design principles and development tools.

digital
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Erlang

The techniques and principles of software development, such as analysis, algorithms, coding, testing and compiling of programming paradigms in Erlang.

digital
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Filemaker (database management systems)

The computer program FileMaker is a tool for creating, updating and managing databases, developed by the software company FileMaker Inc.

digital
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Groovy

The techniques and principles of software development, such as analysis, algorithms, coding, testing and compiling of programming paradigms in Groovy.

digital
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hardware architectures

The designs laying out the physical hardware components and their interconnections.

digital
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Haskell

The techniques and principles of software development, such as analysis, algorithms, coding, testing and compiling of programming paradigms in Haskell.

digital
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hybrid model

The hybrid model consists of principles and fundamentals of service-oriented modelling for business and software systems that allow the design and specification of service-oriented business systems within a variety of architectural styles, such as enterprise architecture.

digital
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IBM Informix

The computer program IBM Informix is a tool for creating, updating and managing databases, developed by the software company IBM.

digital
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ICT accessibility standards

The recommendations for making ICT content and applications more accessible to a wider range of people, mostly with disabilities, such as blindness and low vision, deafness and hearing loss and cognitive limitations. It includes standards such as Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).

digital
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ICT architectural frameworks

The set of requirements that describe an information system's architecture.

digital
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ICT debugging tools

The ICT tools used to test and debug programs and software code, such as GNU Debugger (GDB), Intel Debugger (IDB), Microsoft Visual Studio Debugger, Valgrind and WinDbg.

digital
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ICT power consumption

The energy consumption and types of models of software as well as hardware elements.

digital
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ICT system integration

The principles of integrating ICT components and products from a number of sources to create an operational ICT system, techniques which ensure interoperability and interfaces between components and the system.

digital
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information architecture

The methods through which information is generated, structured, stored, maintained, linked, exchanged and used.

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interfacing techniques

The techniques that relate to interfaces between models and components.

digital
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Java (computer programming)

The techniques and principles of software development, such as analysis, algorithms, coding, testing and compiling of programming paradigms in Java.

digital
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JavaScript

The techniques and principles of software development, such as analysis, algorithms, coding, testing and compiling of programming paradigms in JavaScript.

digital
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Lisp

The techniques and principles of software development, such as analysis, algorithms, coding, testing and compiling of programming paradigms in Lisp.

digital
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MATLAB

The techniques and principles of software development, such as analysis, algorithms, coding, testing and compiling of programming paradigms in MATLAB.

digital
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Microsoft Access

The computer program Access is a tool for creating, updating and managing databases, developed by the software company Microsoft.

digital
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Microsoft Visual C++

The computer program Visual C++ is a suite of software development tools for writing programs, such as compiler, debugger, code editor, code highlights, packaged in a unified user interface. It is developed by the software company Microsoft.

digital
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ML (computer programming)

The techniques and principles of software development, such as analysis, algorithms, coding, testing and compiling of programming paradigms in ML.

digital
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mobile device software frameworks

The API (Application Program Interfaces), such as Android, iOS, windows phone which enables programmers to quickly and easily write applications for mobile devices.

digital
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MySQL

The computer program MySQL is a tool for creating, updating and managing databases, currently developed by the software company Oracle.

digital
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Objective-C

The techniques and principles of software development, such as analysis, algorithms, coding, testing and compiling of programming paradigms in Objective-C.

digital
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ObjectStore

The computer program ObjectStore is a tool for creating, updating and managing databases, developed by the software company Object Design, Incorporated.

digital
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Open source model

The open source model consists of principles and fundamentals of service-oriented modelling for business and software systems that allow the design and specification of service-oriented business systems within a variety of architectural styles, such as enterprise architecture.

digital
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OpenEdge Advanced Business Language

The techniques and principles of software development, such as analysis, algorithms, coding, testing and compiling of programming paradigms in OpenEdge Advanced Business Language.

digital
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OpenEdge Database

The computer program OpenEdge Database is a tool for creating, updating and managing databases, developed by the software company Progress Software Corporation.

digital
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Oracle Relational Database

The computer program Oracle Rdb is a tool for creating, updating and managing databases, developed by the software company Oracle.

digital
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Outsourcing model

The outsourcing model consists of principles and fundamentals of service-oriented modelling for business and software systems that allow the design and specification of service-oriented business systems within a variety of architectural styles, such as enterprise architecture.

digital
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Pascal (computer programming)

The techniques and principles of software development, such as analysis, algorithms, coding, testing and compiling of programming paradigms in Pascal.

digital
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Perl

The techniques and principles of software development, such as analysis, algorithms, coding, testing and compiling of programming paradigms in Perl.

digital
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PHP

The techniques and principles of software development, such as analysis, algorithms, coding, testing and compiling of programming paradigms in PHP.

digital
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PostgreSQL

The computer program PostgreSQL is a free and open-source software tool for creating, updating and managing databases, developed by the PostgreSQL Global Development Group.

digital
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Prolog (computer programming)

The techniques and principles of software development, such as analysis, algorithms, coding, testing and compiling of programming paradigms in Prolog.

digital
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Python (computer programming)

The techniques and principles of software development, such as analysis, algorithms, coding, testing and compiling of programming paradigms in Python.

digital
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R

The techniques and principles of software development, such as analysis, algorithms, coding, testing and compiling of programming paradigms in R.

digital
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Ruby (computer programming)

The techniques and principles of software development, such as analysis, algorithms, coding, testing and compiling of programming paradigms in Ruby.

digital
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SAP R3

The techniques and principles of software development, such as analysis, algorithms, coding, testing and compiling of programming paradigms in SAP R3.

digital
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SAS language

The techniques and principles of software development, such as analysis, algorithms, coding, testing and compiling of programming paradigms in SAS language.

digital
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Scala

The techniques and principles of software development, such as analysis, algorithms, coding, testing and compiling of programming paradigms in Scala.

digital
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Scratch (computer programming)

The techniques and principles of software development, such as analysis, algorithms, coding, testing and compiling of programming paradigms in Scratch.

digital
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service-oriented modelling

The principles and fundamentals of service-oriented modelling for business and software systems that allow the design and specification of service-oriented business systems within a variety of architectural styles, such as enterprise architecture and application architecture.

digital
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Smalltalk (computer programming)

The techniques and principles of software development, such as analysis, algorithms, coding, testing and compiling of programming paradigms in Smalltalk.

digital
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software architecture models

The set of structures and models needed to understand or describe the software system, including the software elements, the relations between them and the properties of both elements and relations.

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software components libraries

The software packages, modules, web services and resources that cover a set of related functions and the databases where these reusable components can be found.

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solution deployment

The technologies and standards to be used during the installation, deployment and maintenance of software characteristics.

digital
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SQL Server

The computer program SQL Server is a tool for creating, updating and managing databases, developed by the software company Microsoft.

digital
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Swift (computer programming)

The techniques and principles of software development, such as analysis, algorithms, coding, testing and compiling of programming paradigms in Swift.

digital
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Teradata Database

The computer program Teradata Database is a tool for creating, updating and managing databases, developed by the software company Teradata Corporation.

digital
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TypeScript

The techniques and principles of software development, such as analysis, algorithms, coding, testing and compiling of programming paradigms in TypeScript.

digital
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VBScript

The techniques and principles of software development, such as analysis, algorithms, coding, testing and compiling of programming paradigms in VBScript.

digital
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Visual Basic

The techniques and principles of software development, such as analysis, algorithms, coding, testing and compiling of programming paradigms in Visual Basic.

digital
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Cross-sector

2 competences
computer programming

The techniques and principles of software development, such as analysis, algorithms, coding, testing and compiling of programming paradigms (e.g. object oriented programming, functional programming) and of programming languages.

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hardware components

The essential components that make up a hardware system, such as liquid-crystal displays (LCD), camera sensors, microprocessors, memories, modems, batteries and their interconnections.

digital
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Optional skills and competences 6 competences

Occupation specific

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Sector-specific

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do cloud refactoring

Optimise application to best use cloud services and features, migrate existing application code to run on cloud infrastructure.

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implement a virtual private network

Create an encrypted connection between private networks, such as different local networks of a company, over the internet to ensure that only authorized users can access it and that the data cannot be intercepted.

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manage cloud data and storage

Create and manage cloud data retention. Identify and implement data protection, encryption, and capacity planning needs.

digital
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use logic programming

Utilise specialised ICT tools to create computer code composed of series of sentences in logical form, expressing rules and facts about some problem domain. Use programming languages which support this method such as Prolog, Answer Set Programming and Datalog.

digital
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Cross-sector

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create solutions to problems

Solve problems which arise in planning, prioritising, organising, directing/facilitating action and evaluating performance. Use systematic processes of collecting, analysing, and synthesising information to evaluate current practice and generate new understandings about practice.

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use ICT ticketing system

Utilise a specialised system to track registration, processing and resolution of issues in an organisation by assigning each of these issues a ticket, registering inputs from involved persons, tracking changes and displaying the status of the ticket, until it is completed.

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