Agile & Tech BA
A proprietary issue tracking product developed by Atlassian that allows bug tracking and agile project management
What is Jira?
A description of how 2 applications talk to each other (pass data back and forth)
What is an API?
The 3 common environments in DevOps code promotion
What are DEV, STAGE (or QA), and PROD?
A set of data that describes and gives information about other data
What is Metadata?
A service that protects your internet connection and privacy online
What is Virtual Private Network (VPN)?
Conditions that a software product must satisfy to be accepted by a user, customer, or other stakeholders
What is Acceptance Criteria?
The part of an application that users see/interact with
What is the Front-End or UI?
The combination of cultural philosophies, practices, and tools that enable a development team to build and support their own development processes and infrastructure
What is DevOps?
A strategy for maintaining data confidentiality and requires the use of a key (kept secret) in order to return to plaintext
What is Encryption?
A subset of AI which allows a machine to automatically learn from past data without programming explicitly
What is Machine Learning?
A large chunk of work that is segmented into smaller tasks called User Stories
What is an Epic?
A multi-page web app that is coded as a single HTML page to be more responsive and to more closely replicate a desktop app or a native app
What is a Single Page Application (SPA)?
An event that takes place in software development when a contributor/developer is ready to begin the process of adding new code changes with the main branch or project repository
What is a merge request or pull request?
A vast pool of raw data, the purpose of which may or may not be defined
What is a Data Lake/Database?
Servers that are accessed over the Internet, and the software and databases that run on those servers
What is the cloud?
Testing specifically done to ensure users get the experience they want
What is User Acceptance Testing (UAT)?
An API type that is lightweight, can be cached, and is easy to interact with
What is a REST API?
The combined practices of continuous integration and continuous delivery or continuous deployment
What is CI/CD?
A data integration process that combines data from multiple data sources into a single, consistent data store that is loaded into a data warehouse or other target systems
What is extract, transform, and load (ETL)?
An approach to application development in which a large application is built from modular components or services
What is Microservice Architecture (or Microservices)?
Testing done once a feature has launched in PROD to ensure it's working correctly
What is Smoke Testing?
A network protocol that provides direct file access, file transfer, and file management safely
What is a Secure File Transfer Protocol (STFP)?
A generalized purchase-able/consumable system of networks, virtual machines, load balancers, applications, and/or connection topology
What is Infrastructure as a Service?
A lightweight format for storing and transporting data consisting of attribute-value pairs and arrays using curly braces, commas, square brackets, and quotes
What is JSON?
A geographically distributed network of proxy servers and their data centers
What is a Content Delivery Network (CDN)?