Data Structures
This structure removes the most recently added item first.
What is a stack?
A search that checks each element in order.
What is linear search?
The scripting language that runs inside web browsers.
What is JavaScript?
The processor that carries out program instructions.
What is the CPU?
A deceptive email or website designed to trick users into giving away sensitive information.
What is phishing?
A structure that removes items based on importance rather than order.
What is a priority queue?
A search that repeatedly halves a sorted list.
What is binary search?
A language known for readability and widely used in automation and AI.
What is Python?
The component specialized for parallel math operations and graphics.
What is the GPU?
Malware that secretly captures keystrokes, screenshots or user activity for an attacker.
What is spyware (or a keylogger)?
This structure allows fast insertions/removals but slow random access because it’s stored as linked nodes.
What is a linked list?
This algorithm finds the shortest path in unweighted graphs.
What is breadth-first search?
This language compiles JVM byte code and focuses on null safety and conciseness.
What is Kotlin?
This type of storage uses NAND flash and is far faster than HDD’s.
What is an SSD?
An attack where an attacker injects malicious input into a database query to manipulate or read unintended data.
What is SQL Injection?
A tree that keeps elements sorted and allows efficient searching, but does not guarantee balance.
What is a binary search tree?
This algorithm uses a “visited” and “low-link” value to detect cycles and strongly connected components.
What is Tarjan’s algorithm?
This language gives manual memory control and is widely used in engines like Unreal.
What is C++?
This OS mechanism lets multiple processes share CPU time by rapidly switching between them.
What is preemptive multitasking?
This technique intercepts network traffic between two parties, allowing an attacker to eavesdrop or alter communications.
What is a man-in-the-middle attack?
This advanced data structure combines arrays and linked lists to allow fast ordered access, used in systems like Redis.
What is a skip list?
A divide-and-conquer sorting algorithm with average O(nlog(n)) time but worst-case O(n^2).
What is quicksort?
A paradigm where functions have no side effects and avoid modifying state.
What is functional programming?
Modern CPUs use this technique to run instructions before knowing which branch will occur.
What is speculative execution?
A vulnerability where untrusted input is executed by a browser as code, often through malicious scripts embedded in the web pages.
What is cross-site scripting (XSS)?