| Subject | English | German |
| IT | preliminary data | Ausgangsdaten |
| phys. | preliminary data | vorläufige Werte |
| comp. | preliminary data processing | Datenaufbereitung |
| comp. | preliminary data processing | vorbereitende Datenverarbeitung |
| comp., MS | preliminary data validation | Vorabdatenüberprüfung (The process of validating data before it is processed. This validation helps detect and exclude some errors from the intended process, which might be the import or migration of users using a CSV file, for example) |