Term 31
Analysis
In incident response, analysis is the process of examining data and events to determine what happened, how it happened, and what actions to take.
Acronym study
Terms 31–60 of 1222 SK0-005 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 31
In incident response, analysis is the process of examining data and events to determine what happened, how it happened, and what actions to take.
Term 32
Ansible is an open-source automation tool that IT professionals use to configure systems, deploy software, and manage infrastructure without needing to install agent software on every managed machine.
Term 33
Anthos Config Management is a Google Cloud tool that helps IT teams manage and enforce configurations across multiple Kubernetes clusters from a single source of truth.
Term 34
Anti-malware is software that detects, prevents, and removes malicious software from computers, networks, and devices.
Term 35
An anti-malware policy is a set of rules and procedures that an organization enforces to prevent, detect, and remove malicious software from its computers and networks.
Term 36
A model where you rent any IT resource or service over the internet instead of owning it.
Term 37
An AP (Access Point) bridges wireless clients to a wired network, acting as a central transceiver and controller for Wi-Fi communications.
Term 38
APFS (Apple File System) is a modern file system designed by Apple for solid-state drives and flash storage, offering improved performance, encryption, and space sharing across macOS, iOS, and other Apple devices.
Term 39
An API key is a unique identifier that authenticates a user or application when calling an API, controlling access and tracking usage.
Term 40
API Management is a service that acts as a front door for application programming interfaces, controlling access, monitoring usage, and enforcing security policies.
Term 41
API security is the practice of protecting application programming interfaces from attacks by ensuring only authorized users and applications can access data and functions.
Term 42
API Server Security refers to the practices, configurations, and controls that protect the Kubernetes API server from unauthorized access, data breaches, and malicious attacks.
Term 43
Apigee is a Google Cloud platform for designing, securing, and analyzing APIs that connect applications and services.
Term 44
APIPA is a Windows feature that automatically assigns a private IP address (169.254.x.x) to a device when a DHCP server is unavailable, allowing limited local network communication.
Term 45
An app protection policy is a set of rules that controls how data is handled and secured within mobile applications, ensuring corporate information stays safe even on personal devices.
Term 46
An App Service plan is a set of compute resources that defines the infrastructure, pricing tier, and scaling capabilities for one or more Azure App Service applications.
Term 47
AppArmor is a Linux kernel security module that restricts programs to a predefined set of resources using mandatory access control (MAC) policies.
Term 48
AppArmor Profiles are security policies that restrict the system resources and actions a program can access, acting like a permission badge for software.
Term 49
Application crash troubleshooting is the systematic process of identifying why a software program stops working, preventing data loss, and restoring normal function.
Term 50
An Application Gateway is a network device or cloud service that manages and secures traffic between users and web applications by applying rules, routing requests, and offloading tasks like SSL encryption.
Term 51
Application Gateway Design is the process of planning and configuring a layer 7 load balancer in Azure that routes web traffic based on URL paths, hostnames, or other HTTP rules for secure, scalable, and high-performance application delivery.
Term 52
Application Insights is an Azure monitoring service that helps developers detect, diagnose, and understand issues in live web applications by collecting telemetry data like requests, exceptions, and performance counters.
Term 53
An Application Load Balancer is a cloud service that automatically distributes incoming web traffic across multiple servers to keep applications fast and reliable.
Term 54
An Application Security Group (ASG) is a cloud networking feature that groups virtual machines logically and allows you to apply security rules based on the application workload, rather than individual IP addresses.
Term 55
ARO stands for Annualized Rate of Occurrence, a number that estimates how often a specific threat or risk event is expected to happen in a single year.
Term 56
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) is a network protocol used to map a device's IP address to its physical MAC address so data can be delivered correctly on a local network.
Term 57
An ARP reply is a network response sent by a device to answer an ARP request, providing its MAC address so the requesting device can map an IP address to a physical hardware address on a local network.
Term 58
An ARP table is a data structure stored on a network device that maps IP addresses to their corresponding MAC addresses, enabling communication within a local network.
Term 59
An Availability Set is a logical grouping of virtual machines in Azure that helps ensure high availability by distributing VMs across different physical hardware within a datacenter.
Term 60
In IT and cybersecurity, an asset is anything valuable that an organization owns or controls, including data, hardware, software, people, and intellectual property.