Vanguard Quiz
Quiz I made for my interview with Vanguard.
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- Vanguard is one of the world's largest consumers of _______ _______ ________.
- Information Technology Services
- Vanguard is the world's largest pure...
- no-load mutual fund company.
- Vanguard is firmly committed to keeping our systems at the _______ of technology.
- forefront
- At Vanguard you'll spend the first 2 to 3 weeks ....
- in your initial training,
- Vanguard is a company focused on creating new _____
- Information Systems
- In the Vanguard Technology Leadership Program you can be placed into one of 3 areas:
- 1. Application Development 2. Web Services 3. Technology Operations
- Vanguard is known for its
- low-cost/high-quality approach to investing.
- Vanguard is one of the world's largest ______ ______ companies.
- Investment Management
- Application Development
- If you're interested in the software life cycle, position responsiblities in this track include UI design, mid-tier or host development, requirements analysis, application testing, and/or application support. Most of our software development occurs in-house, so you'll be working on programs with direct applications for our clients.
- Web Services
- This track is ideal if you want to help create user experiences for Vanguard's award-winning webistes. Building websites requires the talent of a diverse group of people. Out information architects, information designers, content writers, and usability engineers work closely with business teams to delever quality capabilities for our internal and external websites. We take a user-centered design approach that lets each specialist focus on one area of expertise while participating on multi-disciplinary delivery teams.
- Vanguard allocates over a ______ of their operating budget to IT.
- third
- Using technologies such as:
- Java/J2EE, XML, HTML, Web Services, Cobol, Oracle, DB2, Linux, .NET, Windows, UNIX, and z/OS.
- Roughly one out of every ____ Vanguard employees works in ____.
- four, IT
- Initial training at Vanguard is designed to....
- familiarize you with Vanguard while providing your the technical and professional training needed for your role.
- TLP
- Technology Leadership Program
- Technology Operations
- This track is ideal if you want a position in data-center operations. Responsibilities include supporting technology platforms through Tier I (broad but not overly deep) or Tier II (a bit deeper) support for UNIX or the windows platforms. In addition, there are opportunities in capacity planning, performance analysis, and network operations, or you can join a team that supports the latest video and voice technologies.