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A heuristic technique ("find" or "discover"), often called simply a heuristic, is any approach to problem solving, learning, or discovery that employs a practical method not guaranteed to be optimal or perfect, but sufficient for the immediate goals.

Where finding an optimal solution is impossible or impractical, heuristic methods can be used to speed up the process of finding a satisfactory solution.

Heuristics can be mental shortcuts that ease the cognitive load of making a decision.

Examples of this method include using a rule of thumb, an educated guess, an intuitive judgment, stereotyping, profiling, or common sense.

Professional certification, trade certification, or professional designation, often called simply certification or qualification, is a designation earned by a person to assure qualification to perform a job or task.

Not all certifications that use post-nominal letters are an acknowledgement of educational achievement, or an agency appointed to safeguard the public interest.

Licensure means a restricted practice or a restriction on the use of an occupational title, requiring a license.

A license created under a "practice act" requires a license before performing a certain activity, such as driving a car on public roads.

A license created under a "title act" restricts the use of a given occupational title to licensees, but anyone can perform the activity itself under a less restricted title.

For example, in Oregon, anyone can practice counseling, but only licensees can call themselves a "Licensed Professional Counselors.".

Certification refers to the confirmation of certain characteristics of an object, person, or organization.

This confirmation is often, but not always, provided by some form of external review, education, assessment, or audit.

Accreditation is a specific organization's process of certification.

According to the National Council on Measurement in Education, a certification test is a credentialing test used to determine whether individuals are knowledgeable enough in a given occupational area to be labeled "competent to practice" in that area.

Reliability engineering is engineering that emphasizes dependability in the lifecycle management of a product.

Dependability, or reliability, describes the ability of a system or component to function under stated conditions for a specified period of time.

Reliability may also describe the ability to function at a specified moment or interval of time (Availability).

Reliability engineering represents a sub-discipline within systems engineering.

Reliability is theoretically defined as the probability of success, as the frequency of failures; or in terms of availability, as a probability derived from reliability, testability and maintainability.

Testability, Maintainability and maintenance are often defined as a part of "reliability engineering" in Reliability Programs.

Reliability plays a key role in the cost-effectiveness of systems.