GENERAL KNOWLEDGE
A set of computer software and specifications that provides a system for developing application software and deploying it in a cross-platform computing environment.
What is Java?
A distributed architecture without the need for central coordination. Participants are both suppliers and consumers of resources (in contrast to the traditional client-server model).
What is peer-to-peer?
'To sum up'
What is 'in a nutshell'?
Complete with one, two, or three words:
'The project _____ ___ _____ completed by then, I promise.' (said the sales representative 😑)
What is 'will have been'?
Complete the sentence:
'There seems to be a problem with my laptop. It wouldn’t ___________ this morning.' (2 words; phrasal verb)
What is 'boot up'?
A high-level, often just-in-time compiled, multi-paradigm programming language used in front-end development.
What is JavaScript?
Iaas, Paas, and Iaas are examples of these.
What are cloud delivery models?
'You have misunderstood'
What is 'You got the wrong end of the stick'?
Complete with one, two, or three words:
'I can't attend tomorrow's meeting. I ____ ____ finishing the report at that time.' (said the HR manager 😑)
What is 'will be'?
Complete the sentence:
'Our management is confident that our business will improve if we ________ to the latest computer equipment.' (1 word)
What is 'upgrade'?
The person in charge of leading the practice and introducing the overall technical vision for a particular solution.
What is a solutions architect?
The combination of cultural philosophies, practices, and tools that increases an organization’s ability to deliver applications and services at high velocity: evolving and improving products at a faster pace than organizations using traditional software development and infrastructure management processes.
What is DevOps?
'This makes very little sense'
What is 'not to make heads nor tails'?
Complete with one, two, or three words:
'I assure you sales ____ _____ increased by 15% by the end of the year if we implement this new approach.'
What is 'will have'?
This is a problem or a fault in a program or a computer that prevents it from working properly.
What is a 'bug'?
A series of steps that must be performed in order to deliver a new version of software. They are a practice focused on improving software delivery using either a DevOps or site reliability engineering (SRE) approach.
What are CI/CD pipelines?
A design approach to build a single application as a set of small services.
What are 'microservices'?
'To inform someone about some new development'
What is 'to put someone in the picture'?
Complete with one, two, or three words:
'If we finish this project by Friday, on Saturday I __ ____ _____ all night long.'
What is 'will be partying'?
To think creatively, abandoning all preconceptions.
What is 'to think outside the box'?
The study of computer algorithms that can improve automatically through experience and by the use of data.
What is machine learning?
An interface that allows the user to access information from another service and integrate this service into their own application. Through a set of defined requests, the asking application is allowed to access limited pieces of the called upon application’s functionality.
What is API (Application programming interface)?
'To see eye to eye'
Complete with one, two, or three words:
'By 2025, I ____ _____ _____ for a full 10 years at this company.'
What is 'will have worked'?
This word is used to refer to anyone who’s involved in a particular project. If someone has a say in the outcome of a piece of work, they are a ________.
What is 'stakeholder'?