A vocabulary exercise covering IT and programming terminology for ESL professionals. These terms appear in technical discussions, project briefs, and cross-functional communications in technology environments.
📚 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 design a new _____________________ for our website.
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2. I don't have a lot of experience in _____________________-oriented programming languages like Java.
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3. Most of my experience is in back-_____________________ programming.
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4. SQL is pronounced _____________________.
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5. C# is pronounced _____________________.
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6. I've written 1000 lines of _____________________.
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7. I'm not really familiar with that programming _____________________.
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8. I _____________________ to work properly.
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9. This is a much more _____________________ language than the one we coded in before.
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10. This is a password generator _______________________ that I have written.
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