Flashcards: key terms and where to use them

448 flashcards covering the Year 11 and Year 12 Software Engineering syllabus key terms, the course-specification tools and code patterns, and the NESA command words. Every card says where you would use it in the test: the question types it appears in, an example, related past questions and the matching memorise block.

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All terms (A to Z)

Abstraction · Abstraction (in OOP) · Acceptance testing · Account for · Accountability · Actual v expected output · Actuator · Adaptive maintenance · Address register · Agile approach · Agility · Algorithm · Analyse · Application programming interface (API) · Apply · Array · Array sum pattern · Artificial intelligence (AI) · Assess · Asymmetric encryption · Attribute · Authentication · Authentication and authorisation (web) · Authorisation · Autonomous control · Availability · Back-end engineering contribution · Back-end process for a web request · Backtracking · Benefits of collaboration (secure development) · Benefits to an enterprise of secure development · Beta testing · Big data · Binary (base 2) · Binary search · Binary selection (IF THEN ELSE) · Black box testing · Boolean · Bottom-up design · Boundaries · Boundary values · Brainstorming, mind-mapping and storyboards · Breakpoint · Broken authentication and session management · Business continuity · Business process automation (BPA) · Caching · Calculate · Capabilities and experience of end users · Cascading style sheets (CSS) · Character and string · Character representation (ASCII, Unicode) · Clarify · Class · Class diagram · Class diagram inheritance and multiplicity · Classify · Clear and uncluttered mainline · Client-side (front-end) programming · Closed-loop control · Code commenting · Code generation · Code libraries and frameworks (front end) · Code optimisation · Code review · Collaboration of front-end and back-end developers · Collaboration tools · Communication issues · Compare · Computational thinking · Confidentiality · Consistency (collaboration) · Construct · Constructor (__init__) · Content delivery network (CDN) · Contrast · Contribution of back-end development · Control algorithm pattern (line follower) · Copyright · Corrective maintenance · CPU (central processing unit) · Critically analyse or evaluate · Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) · Cross-site scripting (XSS) · CRUD · Cryptography · CSS maintenance tools · CSS rule syntax · CSS selectors (id v class) · Cyber attack · Data analysis and forecasting · Data dictionary · Data dictionary (specification) · Data flow diagram (DFD) · Data mining · Data packet · Data protection · Data register · Data structures and data types (defining) · Data types · Dataset source bias · Date and time · Debugging output statements · Debugging tools · Decimal (base 10) · Decision tree · Decision tree (diagram) · Deduce · Defensive data input handling · Define · Degrees of freedom · Demonstrate · Describe · Design · Desk checking · Determining specifications · Determining vulnerabilities · Development · DevOps · DFD data flow (labelled arrow) · DFD data store · DFD external entity · DFD process (circle) · Diagnostic data · Digital disruption · Digital signature · Direct implementation · Disaster recovery · Discuss · Distinguish · Distinguishing AI and ML · Divide and conquer · Domain name system (DNS) · Drag-and-drop ordering · Drawing questions (online tool) · Driver (test driver) · Dynamic application security testing (DAST) · E-commerce · Ease of maintenance · Economy and distribution of wealth · Embed privacy into design · Employment (impact) · Encapsulation · Encryption algorithm · Encryption key · End effector (manipulator) · Entity relationship diagram (ERD) · Error handling · Evaluate · Evaluating effectiveness · Examine · Exception management · Excessive data exposure · Explain · Extended response (5 to 6 marks) · Extract · Extrapolate · Facade pattern · Faulty and abnormal data · Feasibility · Feedback · Feedback · Feedback (code review) · Feedback report · File attacks · Fill in the blanks and dropdowns · Flowchart · Flowchart · FOR / NEXT loop (counted) · FTP · Function v procedure · Functional paradigm · Functional requirement · Functional testing · Functionality and performance requirements · Gantt chart · Gantt chart (specification) · General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) · Generalisation · Global and local variables · Grey box testing · Handling breaches · Hardening systems · Hash table · Hash value · Hexadecimal (base 16) · HTTP · HTTPS · Human bias · Hydraulic actuator · Identify · Image recognition · IMAP · Impact of automation · Imperative paradigm · Inheritance · Input validation · Inputs, outputs and purpose of an algorithm · Installation · Installation · Instruction set · Integer · Integration · Integrity · Intellectual property · Interactive website · Interpret · Invalid forwarding and redirecting · Investigate · IP address and IPv4 · IPO chart (Input, Process, Output) · Iteration (repetition) · Iteration workflow · Justify · K-nearest neighbour (KNN) · Language-dependent code optimisation · Lazy loading · Level 0 DFD (context diagram) · Level 1 DFD · Light level sensor · Linear regression · Linear search · Linear search pattern · List · Live data · Load times · Logic error · Logic paradigm · Logistic regression · Machine learning (ML) · Mainline · Mainline and subroutines (algorithms) · Maintenance · Maintenance · Matching and tables · Mechatronic system · Memory management · Message passing · Metadata · Method · Method overriding · Microcontroller · Minification · MLOps · MLOps design stage · MLOps model development stage · MLOps operations stage · Modelling tools · Motion constraints · Motion sensor · Multi-dimensional array · Multi-select · Multi-way selection (CASEWHERE) · Multiple choice (MC) · Nature and skills of employment · Need or opportunity · Nested IF · Neural network · Neural network code (predict) · Neural network training and execution cycle · Object · Object-oriented programming (OOP) · Object-relational mapping (ORM) · One logical task per subroutine · Online code collaboration tools · OOP for ML programming · Opcode · Open-loop control · Open-source software · Optimisation data · Outline · Parallel implementation · Parameter and argument · Path and boundary testing · Path coverage · Patterns in human behaviour · Peer checking · Penetration testing · People with disability · Perfective maintenance · Phased implementation · Pilot implementation · Plain text and cipher text · Polymorphism · Polynomial regression · POP3 · Port · Power, battery and material requirements · Predict · Presenting a solution · Primary key and foreign key · Privacy · Privacy by design · Proactive not reactive · Procedural programming v OOP · Process diary (log book) · Production efficiency, waste and the environment · Programmed backup · Progressive web app (PWA) · Project management · Propose · Prototype · Pseudocode · Pseudocode keywords · Pseudocode questions · Python 2D list (grid) · Python classes and objects · Python file and ML code reading (scikit-learn) · Python file handling · Python for loop and range · Python functions · Python input and output · Python lists · Python modules and libraries · Python questions · Python random numbers · Python selection (if elif else) · Python sqlite3 parameterised query · Python strings and slicing · Python try / except · Python validation function pattern · Python while loop · Quality assurance · Quality assurance (QA) · Quality criteria for evaluating code · Race condition · Reading time · Real (floating point) · Recall · Recommend · Record · Recount · Recursion · Refinement · Refinement · Regular backup · Regulatory compliance · Reinforcement learning · REPEAT UNTIL loop (post-test) · Requirements · Requirements definition · Resource allocation · Respect for user privacy · Robotic gripper · Robotic process automation (RPA) · Runtime error · Safety of workers · Sandboxing · Sanitisation · Secure software · Security by design · Selection · Semi-supervised learning · Sensor · Sequence · Sequence · Sequential file · Server-side (back-end) programming · Service worker · Session management · SFTP · Shell commands (mkdir, cd, touch, cp, rm, cat, grep) · Shell script pattern · Short-answer questions · Side channel attack · Simulated data · Simulation and prototype · Single line stepping · SMTP · Social and ethical issues in project work · Social, ethical and legal issues · Software development steps (the order) · Software development steps for secure code (order) · Specialist requirements for people with disability · SQL aggregate functions (COUNT, SUM, AVG) · SQL alias (AS) · SQL and non-SQL databases · SQL calculated aggregate with GROUP BY · SQL constraints · SQL GROUP BY · SQL injection · SQL JOIN · SQL ORDER BY · SQL questions · SQL relational and logical operators · SQL SELECT · SQL statement structure · SQL WHERE · SSL and TLS · SSL certificate · Stack · Static application security testing (SAST) · Storyboard · Strategies for difficulties · Streaming service management · Structure chart · Structure chart data couple (empty circle) · Structure chart decision (diamond) · Structure chart flag (filled circle) · Structure chart repetition (curved arrow) · Stub · Subroutine (module, subprogram, procedure) · Subroutine and function (pseudocode) · Subsystem (combination of sensors, actuators and effectors) · Subsystem testing · Summarise · Superclass and subclass · Supervised learning · Symmetric encryption · Syntax error · Synthesise · System testing · Task definition · TCP/IP · Test plan · Testing and debugging · Testing methodologies · Top-down design · Training data and test data · Tree · Two's complement · Unit testing · Unit tests for control algorithms · Unsupervised learning · User interface (UI) design · User interface for a mechatronic system · Version control · Version control (project) · Version control (web) · Virtual personal assistant · Volume testing · Vulnerability · Vulnerability assessment · WAgile · Watch window (variable watch) · Waterfall approach · Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) · Web app manifest · Web browser and developer (dev) tools · Web content management system (CMS) · Web framework · Web server software · WHILE loop (pre-test) · White box testing · Wiring diagram · Wiring diagram · World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) · XSS JavaScript fragment reading