Acronym study
Terms 181–210 of 595 Google PCA 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 181
Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP) is a Cisco-proprietary advanced distance-vector routing protocol that calculates the best path through a network using multiple metrics, with fast convergence and loop-free routing.
Term 182
An error budget is the maximum amount of acceptable downtime or failure a system can experience within a specified period while still meeting its Service Level Objective (SLO).
Term 183
Error Reporting is the automated process of capturing, logging, and notifying relevant systems or personnel about errors that occur in software, hardware, or network components to facilitate diagnosis and resolution.
Term 184
Ethernet is a wired networking technology that connects devices like computers, printers, and servers to each other and to the internet using cables.
Term 185
ETL stands for Extract, Transform, Load, a process that moves data from multiple source systems into a single database, data warehouse, or data lake for analysis and reporting.
Term 186
EUI-64 is a method for creating a 64-bit interface identifier from a 48-bit MAC address, used to form an IPv6 link-local or stateless address auto-configuration (SLAAC) address.
Term 187
A rating from the Common Criteria that measures how thoroughly a computer product or system has been tested and verified for security.
Term 188
Event-driven architecture is a software design pattern where components communicate by producing, detecting, and reacting to events, enabling decoupled, scalable, and responsive systems.
Term 189
ExpressRoute is a cloud service that creates a private, dedicated network connection between your on-premises infrastructure and Microsoft Azure, bypassing the public internet for faster, more reliable data transfer.
Term 190
An Extended Service Set Identifier (ESSID) is the name of a wireless network that uses multiple access points to cover a larger area, allowing devices to roam seamlessly between them.
Term 191
Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a markup language that defines rules for encoding documents in a format that is both human-readable and machine-readable.
Term 192
Failover routing is a network design that automatically redirects traffic to a backup path when the primary path fails, keeping services available.
Term 193
A fault domain is a boundary within a computing environment that groups together components that share a single point of failure, helping to isolate the impact of hardware or software failures.
Term 194
Fault tolerance is the ability of a system to continue operating properly even when one or more of its components fail.
Term 195
Fiber internet is a broadband connection that uses strands of glass or plastic to transmit data as pulses of light, offering higher speeds and more reliable service than traditional copper-based connections.
Term 196
Fibre Channel is a high-speed networking technology used to connect computer data storage to servers, enabling fast and reliable data transfer in enterprise data centers.
Term 197
File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a standard network protocol used to transfer files between a client and a server over a TCP/IP network.
Term 198
Google Cloud Filestore is a managed file storage service that lets you mount a network file system (NFS) to multiple virtual machines simultaneously, just like a shared folder on an office network.
Term 199
Firestore is a flexible, scalable, serverless NoSQL database from Google Cloud that automatically syncs data across applications in real time.
Term 200
A firewall is a network security system that monitors and controls incoming and outgoing traffic based on predetermined security rules to protect trusted internal networks from untrusted external networks.
Term 201
A firewall rule is a set of conditions that tells a firewall which network traffic to allow or block based on attributes like source, destination, port, and protocol.
Term 202
A First Hop Redundancy Protocol provides automatic backup for the default gateway router on a network so that devices keep working if the primary router fails.
Term 203
Flow control is a technique that manages the rate of data transmission between two devices to prevent a fast sender from overwhelming a slow receiver.
Term 204
A folder is a logical container used to organize and group digital files, resources, or cloud-based assets within a system or platform.
Term 205
A foreign key is a column or set of columns in a database table that links to the primary key of another table, ensuring relational integrity between the two.
Term 206
A frame is a unit of data at the Data Link layer of networking, containing header, payload, and trailer information for local network delivery.
Term 207
Amazon FSx is a fully managed Windows file server and Lustre file system service that provides native file storage for Windows workloads and high-performance computing (HPC) in the AWS cloud.
Term 208
FTP, or File Transfer Protocol, is a standard network protocol used to transfer files between a client and a server over a TCP/IP network.
Term 209
A Fully Qualified Domain Name is the complete and unambiguous website or server name that includes the host, domain, and top-level domain, leaving no room for guesswork.
Term 210
A gateway endpoint is a networking component that acts as an entry and exit point for traffic between two different networks, typically translating between incompatible protocols or addressing schemes.