Essential English-Spanish Computer Terms & IT Roles
Essential English-Spanish Computer Terms
- store – guardar
- retried – recuperar
- manich – administrar
- net up – establecer
- test – probar
- be able – ser capaz
- place – planificar
- develop – desarrollar
Prepositions
- above – arriba
- below – abajo
- over – sobre
- under – abajo
- between – entre
- in the middle of – en el medio de
- behind – detrás
- in front of – en frente de
- beside – al lado
- next to – al lado de
- near to – cercano a
- on – sobre
- in – en (dentro de algo)
- at – en (indica lugar físico)
in october
in 1987
in a company
in the morning
at 6 o’clock
at cisco
at night
on friday
on october
IT Roles
1. Database Administrator
The Internet and electronic commerce (e-commerce) generate lots of data. Data must be stored, organized, and managed.
Database administrators work with database software to find ways to do this. They identify user needs, set up computer databases, and test systems.
Database administrators often plan security measures. Data integrity, backup, and security are critical parts of the job.
Database administrators usually work in offices or labs.
These computer specialists sometimes work on their own, but they often work in teams. They must be able to communicate with computer personnel, such as programmers and managers.
2. Computer Support Specialist
Computer support specialists help people use computers. When something goes wrong, support specialists figure out why. Then, they try to fix it.
Many support specialists answer questions over the phone or by e-mail. Others also help people face-to-face. To answer a problem over the phone, the specialist takes the person through the necessary steps to fix the problem using their own computer.
Computer support specialists also install printers, software, and other computer tools. Then, they teach people how to use them.
Some specialists work at night or on weekends.
3. Computer Hardware Engineer
Computer hardware engineers research, design, develop, test, and oversee the installation of computer hardware. Computer hardware includes computer chips, circuit boards, systems, modems, keyboards, and printers. (As opposed to Computer Software engineers, who design the programs to run computers.)
Computer hardware engineers are like electronics engineers, but work only with computers. The rapid advances in computers are a result of their work.
4. Computer Software Engineer
Computer software engineers apply computer science, engineering, and maths to design, develop, and test software. (As opposed to Computer Hardware engineers, who design computer chips, boards, systems, modems, and printers).
Software engineers first analyze users’ needs. Then, they design, construct, test, and maintain the needed software or systems.
Software engineers often work as part of a team that designs new hardware, software, and systems.
Computer software engineers can develop a program for just one person or for many people to use separately.
Many software engineers work for companies that make or install new and more advanced computer systems.
5. Webmaster
Webmasters make web sites. They turn words and art into Internet sites that people can use. They give computers instructions about how words and art should look on the computer screen.
They also update web sites. They spend a lot of time adding new things to the site. They fix mistakes, like links that don’t work and pictures that don’t show up on the screen.
Webmasters do the technical, computer programming work to make a web site. They work with artists, writers, and designers who create the things that go on the site and decide how the site will look.
6. Systems Analyst
They tell businesses and other organizations which computers and software to buy, and they decide how to get those tools to work together.
Computer systems analysts start their work by asking people what they need their computers to do. Then, they plan a computer system that can do those tasks well. A system can include many computers working together and different types of software and tools.
They also tell computer programmers how to make any new software that is needed. They give the programmers step-by-step instructions.
The main job for some systems analysts is making computers to work together. They connect them into a network. Analysts decide how to get information from one computer to another.
Analysts usually work as part of a team.