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This business unit is primarily responsible for delivering services in the Consumer/Public Education, Media Relations, Government Relations, Financial Services Outreach, and Congressional Inquiries & Relations.

What is OCOM

100

Architecture principle supporting reduced use of electricity.

What is carbon efficiency?

100

How complexity is managed within Information Technology/Computer Science.

What are abstractions?

100

SBOM.

What is the acronym for Software Bill of Materials?

100

This program area protects deposits from loss without recourse to taxpayer funding

What is Insurance

200

Monday after weekend maintenance or deployments.

When do the highest number of production outages occur?

200

Human-centered Digital Employee Experience, Customer Experience & Engagement; Self-service, Hybrid Work-Life Technologies.

What are examples of Digital Empowerment?

200

Enables rapid and sustainable paths to production.

What is the Developer Experience Flywheel?

200

These scenarios could cause the implementation of a Cloud Exit process.

What are Triggering Events?

200

Selecting the best target for a workload including SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, or on-premise.

What is Multi-Cloud?

300

Been advocating for containerization at FDIC for a decade.

Who is Al Maline?

300

This tool helps people pick the right product or service for the right job, simplifying the product selection process.

What is a Range Architecture?

300

Experiments, Model Operations, Model Management & Governance, Feedback.

What is the Machine Learning Flywheel?

300

Require all users, whether in or outside the organization’s network, to be authenticated, authorized, and continuously validated for security configuration and posture before being granted or keeping access to applications and data.

What is Zero Trust?

300

Moving legacy techniques to the cloud when we know there is a better way.

What is technical malfeasance? Where you thinking Technical Debt?

400

a11y.

What is the nerd way to write accessibility?

400

Drive the cost and risk of change towards zero enabling FDIC to respond quickly to external factors.

What is DevSecOps?

400

Investing in this reduces ETLs and simplifies integrations between applications.

What is the Business Event Flywheel?

400

3,300.

What are the approximate number of database instances that FDIC supports?

400

Appian, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Cloud.Gov, Microsoft Power Platform.

What are our Platforms as a Service?

500

Requires two-person review of all changes and a hermetic, reproducible build process and good with tortilla chips.

What is SLSA (Supply-chain Levels for Software Artifacts) Level 4?

500

1) The entire system is described declaratively. 2) The desired system state is versioned in Git. 3) Approved changes can be automatically applied to the system. 4) Software agents are used to ensure correctness and alert on divergence.

What are the principles of GitOps?

500

This system component is responsible for reading the desired state of a system, recognizing change in that state and reconciling the actual state of the system with the desired state.

What is a Control Plane?

500

Responsible for adjudicating compliance with the target architecture.

What is SEATAB?

500

Azure implementation of an Event Driven Architecture to connect data services, controls, and application services.

What is Azure Event Hub?