Practice IT and programming vocabulary with this exercise. The terms here reflect the language of software development — used in team meetings, documentation, and technical communications.
📚 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're looking for three programmers to help us develop our web-based __________________.
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2. You have to test the program to ensure that it works __________________.
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3. Many programmers use libraries of (modifiable) code instead of __________________ from scratch.
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4. Proprietary software is software that can be used __________________ by the company that develops it. ( = no one else can use it)
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5. Boris is going to be helping us to implement various software sub-__________________.
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6. He's really good at __________________. ( = finding a problem and fixing it)
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7. Do you have any experience with integrating internal software solutions into _________________ ( = external) application software?
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8. Programmers with _________________ or licenses are not necessarily better coders.
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9. How good are you _________________ stored procedures?
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10. What's another word for "testing"?
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