IT Vocab 10

Question 1

A person who creates websites and other technologies that are delivered through the Internet

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Web Developer

Question 2

A program element, such as an array or vector, that hold a set of values

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Container

Question 3

An attribute attached to a value that tells the compiler or interpreter how the data should be used

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Data type

Question 4

A markup language interpreted by web browsers

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Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)

Question 5

A person who makes sure the quality of the finished application meets the standards of the company

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QA Engineer

Question 6

A programming language commonly used to create interactive effects within a web browser

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JavaScript

Question 7

A person who writes code to design, create, implement and maintain databases

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Database Programmer

Question 8

A human-readable, low-level computer language that is a symbolic representation of binary machine language

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Assembly language

Question 9

The login in a program that tells the computer to repeatedly execute a sequence of instructions until a condition is reached

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Looping

Question 10

A computer routine or snippet of code that can be reused in a computer program

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Function

Question 11

A file associated with a web page that describes how HTML elements are to be displayed

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Cascading Style Sheet (CSS)

Question 12

A methodology or framework that defines steps and tasks for developing and maintaining information systems

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System Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

Question 13

A development model that breaks down project activities into a series of sequential or linear phases, each phase depending on the deliverables from the previous phase

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Waterfall model

Question 14

An OOP concept that describes how data and methods are bundled together within one unit or class

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Encapsulation

Question 15

A visual representation of the logic in a program

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Flowchart

Question 16

A person who creates applications for computers and mobile devices

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Application Developer

Question 17

The study and design of a system, accomplished by examining its components and their interactions

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System Analysis and Design

Question 18

A special interpreter that translates bytecode into computer specific machine language. Bytecode is a platform independent, low-level language that is compiled from source code

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Runtime Engine

Question 19

The logic in a program that tells the computer to execute a different part of the program rather than executing statements one-by-one, in order

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Branching

Question 20

A user-defined name of a program element, such as a variable or constant

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Identifier

Question 21

A computer programming language, such as Python, JavaScript, and Ruby, that requires a program called an interpreter to execute the instructions written in the source code each time the application is run

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Interpreted language

Question 22

A development model that involves designing, implementing, and testing smaller pieces of the overall project, then cycling back and doing more analysis and design

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Iterative design

Question 23

Specific, step-by-step procedures that illustrate how a problem will be solved

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Algorithm

Question 24

The various forms of information systems including transaction processing, management, and expert systems

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Information Systems Types

Question 25

A computer programming language, such as C and C++, that uses a software tool called a compiler to translate the code into binary machine language

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Compiled Language

Question 26

A programming paradigm based on the concept of objects which can contain both data and programming code

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Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)