Practice database vocabulary with this exercise. The terms here reflect the language of data storage, retrieval, and management used by technical professionals across the IT industry.
📚 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 response to complete each sentence.
1. We have to rethink our database structure. These types of online __________________ are not acceptable.
Correct answer: response times.
2. Everything is working well = Everything is running __________________.
Correct answer: smoothly.
3. I'll be able to __________________ the problem (meaning: find out what the problem is) by tomorrow.
Correct answer: diagnose.
4. Database integrity helps prevent business rules from ____________________.
Correct answer: being broken.
5. We have to ensure that every order must identify one and __________________ customer.
Correct answer: only one.
6. __________________ is another issue that is important to consider when building a database.
Correct answer: Security.
7. I can __________________ the data but I can't change it.
Correct answer: access.
8. A database is used to __________________ data.
Correct answer: store.
9. Many databases are __________________ tables.
Correct answer: made up of.
10. Only __________________ users can access and change data as needed.