English for I.T. (Information technology) professionals 2
Practice IT synonyms with this exercise. Expanding your technology vocabulary range will help you communicate more naturally and flexibly in technical and business-facing IT roles.
📚 Key vocabulary API (Application Programming Interface) — a set of rules allowing different software applications to communicate and share data with each other cloud computing — the delivery of computing services including storage, servers, and software over the internet on demand agile methodology — a project management approach based on iterative development, collaboration, and flexibility to change DevOps — a set of practices combining software development and IT operations to shorten development cycles and improve reliability cybersecurity — the practice of protecting computer systems, networks, and data from digital attacks and unauthorized access bandwidth — the maximum rate of data transfer across a network, typically measured in megabits per second latency — the delay between a user's action and the corresponding response from a system or network scalability — the ability of a system or network to handle an increasing amount of work or expand its capacity firewall — a network security system that monitors and controls incoming and outgoing traffic based on defined rules encryption — the process of encoding data so that only authorized parties can read it
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Choose the correct word(s) to make the two sentences have the same meaning.
1. To make your website "live" = To ______________ your website
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2. This part of the software is not working. = This software ________________ is not working.
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3. I've developed a program that will solve this problem. = I've __________________ a program that will solve this problem.
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4. Some of the features are not there. = Some of the features are ________________.
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5. You can build an entire website using style sheets.= You can build an entire website ________________ style sheets.
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6. Let me try. = Let me _________________ it a try.
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7. An elaborate navigation bar = A _________________ navigation bar
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8. He's well-________________ in many modern web design techniques. = He's proficient in many modern web design techniques.
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9. Web design techniques = Web design _________________
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10. We have to move some of these elements around. = We have to _________________ some of these elements.
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