Term 121
Bigtable
Bigtable is Google's fully managed, scalable NoSQL database service designed for large analytical and operational workloads, handling petabytes of data with low latency.
Acronym study
Terms 121–150 of 1001 Cloud Digital Leader acronyms and key terms. Each entry includes a plain-English definition and a link to the full 800-word glossary page with exam context and practice questions.
Term 121
Bigtable is Google's fully managed, scalable NoSQL database service designed for large analytical and operational workloads, handling petabytes of data with low latency.
Term 122
A billing account in Google Cloud is a container for all the charges generated by using cloud resources, linked to a payment method and used to track and pay for your usage.
Term 123
Binary Authorization is a security control that ensures only trusted container images are deployed in a Kubernetes or cloud environment.
Term 124
Biometrics is the technology that uses unique physical or behavioral traits, like fingerprints or voice patterns, to verify a person's identity.
Term 125
BitLocker is a full-disk encryption feature built into Windows that protects data by encrypting the entire drive so that unauthorized users cannot access files without the correct recovery key.
Term 126
A blob is a large piece of unstructured data, like a photo or video, stored in the cloud with a unique identifier.
Term 127
Blob tier is a category of storage in cloud platforms (like Azure Blob Storage) that defines the cost, performance, and access frequency of data, with tiers ranging from hot for frequent access to cool and archive for rarely accessed data.
Term 128
The Blue team is the group of cybersecurity professionals responsible for defending an organization's systems, networks, and data against attacks and maintaining the security posture.
Term 129
Brewer-Nash is a security model that prevents conflicts of interest by restricting access to data based on the user's past access history and organizational membership.
Term 130
A network device that connects two or more Local Area Networks (LANs) or segments, forwarding traffic based on MAC addresses to reduce collision domains.
Term 131
A policy allowing employees to use their personal laptops, smartphones, or tablets for work tasks instead of using company-issued equipment.
Term 132
Broken access control is a security vulnerability that occurs when an application does not properly enforce restrictions on what authenticated users are allowed to do, allowing them to access unauthorized data or perform unauthorized actions.
Term 133
Budgets in cloud computing are monitoring tools that allow you to set spending limits and receive alerts when your costs approach or exceed those limits.
Term 134
A Business continuity plan (BCP) is a documented strategy that outlines how an organization will continue critical operations during and after a disruptive event.
Term 135
Business Continuity Planning is the process of creating a strategy to keep an organization's essential functions running during and after a major disruption.
Term 136
A systematic process used to identify and evaluate the potential effects of an interruption to critical business operations as a result of a disaster, accident, or emergency.
Term 137
BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) is a policy allowing employees to use their personal devices for work tasks, increasing flexibility but introducing security and management challenges.
Term 138
CapEx (Capital Expenditure) is the money a company spends upfront to buy, build, or improve physical assets like servers, buildings, or equipment, which are then owned and depreciated over time.
Term 139
A captive portal is a web page that you must see and interact with before you are allowed full access to a public or guest Wi-Fi network.
Term 140
CDP is a Cisco proprietary protocol used by network devices to share information about themselves with directly connected neighbors, helping network administrators discover and understand the topology.
Term 141
Certificate pinning is a security technique that associates a specific digital certificate or public key with a particular server, so that an app or system will only trust that exact certificate, rejecting any others even if they are issued by a trusted certificate authority.
Term 142
The CIA triad is a foundational security model that guides organizations in protecting data through confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
Term 143
A security model that enforces data integrity by ensuring that only authorized, well-formed transactions change data, and that those changes are logged and controlled.
Term 144
Classification is a supervised machine learning technique used to predict a category or class label for new data based on patterns learned from labeled training data.
Term 145
A cloud account is a digital identity that grants you access to cloud services like computing power, storage, and databases from a provider such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
Term 146
Cloud AI APIs are pre-built, cloud-hosted interfaces that allow developers to integrate artificial intelligence capabilities into applications without building or training models from scratch.
Term 147
Cloud Armor is a Google Cloud web application firewall (WAF) service that protects applications and websites from attacks like DDoS and SQL injection using customizable security rules.
Term 148
Cloud Audit Logs are a record of actions taken by users, services, and resources inside a cloud environment, capturing who did what, when, and from where.
Term 149
Cloud Build is a managed service that compiles source code into deployable artifacts, often used in continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines.
Term 150
A Cloud CDN is a network of servers spread around the world that stores copies of your website or app content so it loads faster for users no matter where they are.