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.
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2. Everything is working well. = Everything is running __________________.
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3. I'll be able to __________________ the problem ( = find out what the problem is) by tomorrow.
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4. The integrity of a database is something that prevents business rules from __________________.
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5. We have to ensure that every order identifies one and __________________ customer.
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6. __________________ is another issue that is important to consider when building a database.
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7. I can __________________ the data but I can't change it.
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8. A database is used to __________________ data.
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9. Many databases are __________________ tables.
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10. Only __________________ users can access and change data as needed.
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