INTRODUCTION

TO COMPUTING
PROFESSIONAL AND CAREERS IN THE COMPUTING
FIELD

IC 101 – MEDINA, G. | 2019-2020

PROFESSIONAL
AND CAREERS
IN THE
COMPUTING
FIELD
BASE ON CMO 25, S. 2015
 BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN INFORMATION
TECHNOLOGY (BSIT)
The BS Information Technology program includes the
study of the utilization of both hardware and software
technologies involving planning, installing, customizing,
operating, managing and administering, and
maintaining information technology infrastructure that
provides computing solutions to address the needs of an
organization.
The program prepares graduates to address various user
needs involving the selection, development, application,
integration and management of computing technologies
within an organization.
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PRIMARY JOB ROLES

WEB AND APPLICATIONS JUNIOR DATABASE

SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR NETWORK ENGINEER
DEVELOPER ADMINISTRATOR
Web developers design and Junior Database Administrator The role may include some Network engineers are
build websites. They are (Jr. DBA) position is responsible mundane tasks, but each one responsible for building and
typically responsible for the for monitoring, maintenance is essential for the continued maintaining the day-to-day
appearance, of the site and and operational support of our running of IT operations, to operation of computer
technical aspects, such as site entire portfolio of databases. prevent problems and to networks that companies and
speed and how much traffic Maintain reliability, stability improve systems’ organizations rely on. These
the site can handle. Web and data integrity of the performance. The system networks typically include an
developers may also create site databases. Provide support in administrator is there to keep intranet, extranet, local area
content that requires technical the administration, backup, the company’s network safe network (LAN), and wide area
features. integrity and security of and running efficiently. network (WAN).
various SQL databases.
Responsible for database tasks. 4
PRIMARY JOB ROLES

JUNIOR INFORMATION SYSTEMS INTEGRATION TECHNICAL SUPPORT

IT AUDIT ASSISTANT
SECURITY ADMINISTRATOR TRAINEE SPECIALIST
A Security Administrator is System Integration Managers Information Technology (IT) Technical support specialists
basically the point manage staff, implementation Auditors help organizations by provide technical support,
man/woman for cyber security teams, and workgroups to protecting their internal advice, and assistance to
systems. The information S.A. communicate and monitor controls and data within their consumers and businesses
is responsible for network and system requirements and technology system. They with technical, hardware, and
computer security and his/her technical issues. safeguard sensitive software system problems.
primary responsibility is information by identifying Specialists generally deal
related with the administration weaknesses in a system’s directly with end users and
and installation of security network and creating must effectively communicate
devices and providing strategies to prevent any answers in a way they can
consultation and creating a security breaches in the understand.
general awareness on the technology. 5

security.
SECONDARY JOB ROLES

QA SPECIALIST SYSTEMS ANALYST COMPUTER PROGRAMMER

Quality Assurance specialists Systems analysts analyse how Computer programmers write code
perform quality tests during well software, hardware and to create software programs. They
production to identify and the wider IT system fit the turn the program designs created by
correct any work-in-progress business needs of their software developers and engineers
issues. They create and employer or of a client. They into instructions that a computer can
implement monitoring write requirements for new follow. Programmers must debug the
processes and ensure that systems and may also help programs—that is, test them to
production employees are implement them and monitor ensure that they produce the
adhering to standards and their effectiveness. expected results. If a program does
safety guidelines. not work correctly, they check the
code for mistakes and fix them.
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 COMPUTING DOMAINS
 Administration and Management of IT
 Information Technology (IT) Support Services
 Educational Technology Services
 Research Computing Services
 Communications Infrastructure Services
 Enterprise Infrastructure and Services
 Information Security
 Information Systems and Applications
 Other IT Domain
Please include the following in this area if
applicable:
• IT in an affiliated hospital
• Institutional research
• Library technology
• Mailroom
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domain-definitions
COMPUTING DISCIPLINES
• Computer Engineering
• Computer Science
• Information Systems
• Information Technology
• Software Engineering
• Mixed Disciplinary Majors
- Bioinformatics
- Computational science
- Computer Science and Mathematics
- Gaming and Animation
- Medical (or health) informatics

https://www.acm.org/binaries/content/asse 8
ts/education/computing-disciplines.pdf
 COMPUTING KNOWLEDGE AREAS

1. information technology 7. platform technologies;

fundamentals;
8. programming fundamentals;
2. human computer interaction; 9. system administration and
3. information assurance and maintenance;
security; 10. system integration and
architecture;
4. information management; 11. social and professional issues;
5. integrative programming and 12. web systems and
technologies; technologies.
http://jite.org/documents/Vol5/v5p373-
6. networking; 388Aasheim129.pdf

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