Acronyms
RAM
What is Random Access Memory?
A smaller, faster, cheaper, and more durable electronic device that replaced mechanical relays, which were slow and tended to wear down over time.
What is a Transistor?
A small computer that combines a display and keyboard and is designed to be easily carried.
What is a Laptop?
A role of the operating system that helps keep storage devices well organized and maintained.
What is Disk Management?
A computer component that allows the device to be connected to a network.
What is a Network Interface?
CS
What is Computer Science?
Historical data used to help people make decisions in the present.
What is Analytical Data?
A type of programming language that uses an interpreter to compile the code line by line.
What is a Scripting Language?
This SDLC model consists of sequential or linear phases, from preliminary analysis and design to implementation and maintenance.
What is the Waterfall Model?
Provides protection against brownouts, blackouts, and surges.
What is a UPS?
A business approach in which an organization identifies and automates as many tasks as possible in order to create higher efficiency and lower operational costs.
What is Hyper-Automation?
DBMS
What is Database Management System?
A type of OS that is built into an appliance, such as smart cars, drones, and TVs.
What is an Embedded OS?
A communications standard that utilizes ad hoc connections in the 2.4GHz band.
The main part of a document, usually <h1></h1>
What is the Title?
or
What is the Heading?
A form of eavesdropping that uses programs such as packet sniffers to capture data being transmitted over a network.
What is Wiretapping?
SaaS
What is Software as a Service?
A type of image that stores pictures pixel by pixel.
What is a Rasterized Image?
Emailing and texting are examples of _______ communication.
What is Asynchronous?
This definition makes a field require a value.
What is NOT NULL?
Prior to interviewing for a position with a company, you should do this to learn more about them.
What is Researching the Company?
The process of recomposing all broken up fragmented files on a disk.
What is Defragmentation?
A set of rules that facilitates internet communication.
What is TCP/IP?