Case Study Glossary


Backup strategies: Different methods of backing-up to ensure that data and information can be restored in case of a system outage, hardware failure, natural disaster or other data loss.
BACKUP SCHEME
TYPICAL MEDIUM
ALL OR SOME DATA?
DATA COMPRESSED?
MAJOR ADVANTAGE
Full backup
Tape
All
Yes
Simple
Differential
Tape
Some
Yes
Saves time
Incremental
Tape
Some
Yes
Very fast
Mirror
Disk
All
No
Simple, fast
Snapshots
Disk
Some
No
Very fast
Continuous
Disk
Some
No
Efficient media use

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS): are a series of instructions that specify how text should appear on a Web page. You can use CSS to set styles for text, borders, and other elements, and apply these styles to your entire Web site.
Web Content Management System (Web CMS)- is a system used to organise collaborative content creation. It is helps to create, manage, store and deploy content on Web pages

Denial of service attack
Domain Name System (DNS): A name for an IP address; translates hostnames to IP addresses on behalf of requesting clients.

Gantt chart

HTML- which stands forHyper Text Markup Language is a computer-generated language used to create documents on the World Wide Web. It can be used to structure text and multimedia and/or set up hyperlinks between documents.
HTTPS
Internet service provider (ISP): A company that provides users to access the Internet through broadband or dial-up connection.

IP address: a unique number that identifies a computer and its location on the internet in order to know where to send and retrieve information.
JavaScript- is a scripting language that enables web authors to design interactive sites. It is widely supported in Web browsers and other Web tools as it adds interactive functions to HTML pages e.g store cookies, give suggestions when searching for a term (“Mi” could give results “Mile,” “Miami,” etc) and display information based on the time of the day among others.
MySQL
Open source- Open source refers to a program where the source code is available to the general public for use and/or modification from its original design.
Page ranking
Pay per click advertising
Payment merchant account
Payment options – are way in which a mortgage is to be paid. There are a variety of payment options, normally, with every mortgage product. These options may vary depending on credit history and loan amount.

PHP

Project management
RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks): allows you to store the same data redundantly (in multiple paces) in a balanced way to improve overall performance.
RSS feeds
Search engine optimization
Shopping cart software
Site traffic analysis
SQL
Web 2.0 technologies
Web content management system (Web CMS)


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