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Tech talk 101
Cybersecurity Basics
Data & Analytics
AI
100

This role typically builds and maintains data pipelines that move data from source systems into data warehouses or lakes.

What is a Data Engineer?

100

This is a set of rules and tools that allows different software applications to communicate with each other.

What is an API (Application Programming Interface)?

100

This role is responsible for monitoring systems, investigating security incidents, and responding to threats in an organization.

What is a Security Analyst or Cybersecurity Analyst?

100

This widely used language helps analysts pull data from databases.

What is SQL?

100

Chatbots, virtual assistants, and recommendation engines are examples of this type of AI application.

What is machine learning or AI applications?

200

This role focuses on bridging the gap between software development and IT operations to deliver applications faster and more reliably.

What is a DevOps Engineer?

200

This programming language is commonly used for data analysis due to libraries like pandas

What is Python?

200

This system monitors and filters incoming and outgoing network traffic based on security rules.

What is a firewall?

200
These two visualization tools are used most often by data analyst to create interactive dashboards. 

1. What is Tableau?

2. What is Power BI? 

200

This AI technology powers the voice recognition in Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant.

What is natural language processing (NLP)?

300

This role builds data pipelines and dashboards to help business teams make data-driven decisions.

What is a Business Intelligence (BI) Engineer?

300

This tool is widely used for automating infrastructure as code, allowing DevOps teams to manage servers, networks, and resources consistently.

What is Terraform?

300

This framework of practices ensures only authorized users can access specific data or systems.

identity and access management – IAM

300

This unified analytics platform is built on  Spark and is commonly used for big data processing, data engineering, and machine learning in the cloud.

What is Databricks?

300

This AI approach generates new content—like text, images, or music—based on patterns learned from existing data.

What is generative AI?

400

This role often works with technologies like JavaScript, React, Node.js, and databases like PostgreSQL or MongoDB.

What is a Full Stack Developer?

400

This tool or process allows teams to automatically build, test, and deploy software, ensuring consistent releases across environments, often using pipelines in Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI/CD.

What is Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment (CI/CD)?

400

This type of cybersecurity testing simulates real-world attacks to identify vulnerabilities before hackers exploit them.

What is penetration testing (pen testing)?

400

Snowflake, BigQuery, and Redshift are examples of this type of analytics platform.

What is a data warehouse?

400

ChatGPT is an  example of this type of AI model.

What are Large Language Models (LLMs)?

500

This role focuses on translating complex business requirements into cloud-native solutions, often architecting microservices, managing Kubernetes clusters, and optimizing for scalability and security.

What is a Cloud Solutions Architect?

500

This SQL-based, cloud-native data warehouse allows near-infinite scaling, separates storage from compute, and supports both structured and semi-structured data.

What is Snowflake?

500

This framework helps organizations identify, protect, detect, respond, and recover from cyber threats.

What is the NIST Cybersecurity Framework?

500

This type of architecture combines the flexibility of data lakes with the structure of data warehouses and is commonly used with tools like Databricks.

What is a data lakehouse?

500

This practice focuses on deploying, monitoring, and maintaining machine learning models in production environments.

What is MLOps?

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