Term 151
Blue screen of death
A critical system error screen displayed by Windows when it encounters a fatal issue it cannot recover from, forcing a restart.
Acronym study
Terms 151–180 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 151
A critical system error screen displayed by Windows when it encounters a fatal issue it cannot recover from, forcing a restart.
Term 152
Blue Screen of Death Analysis is the process of diagnosing the cause of a critical Windows system error that forces the computer to restart and displays a blue screen with error details.
Term 153
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 154
A Bluetooth module is a small hardware component that enables wireless communication between devices over short distances using Bluetooth technology.
Term 155
A boot loop is a computer startup failure where the device repeatedly turns on and off or restarts without ever fully loading the operating system.
Term 156
BPDU Guard is a Cisco switch feature that protects the network from unauthorized devices by disabling a port if it receives a Bridge Protocol Data Unit (BPDU).
Term 157
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 158
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 159
A policy allowing employees to use their personal laptops, smartphones, or tablets for work tasks instead of using company-issued equipment.
Term 160
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 161
A Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) is a stop error screen displayed by Windows when a critical system error forces the operating system to shut down to prevent damage.
Term 162
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 163
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 164
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 165
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 166
Caching is the process of storing copies of frequently accessed data in a temporary storage location, known as a cache, so that future requests for that data can be served faster and with less computational effort.
Term 167
A DNS record that maps an alias domain name to the official or canonical domain name, like a nickname pointing to a real name.
Term 168
Capacity and performance management is the practice of ensuring that IT services have the right amount of resources to meet current and future demand while maintaining agreed performance levels.
Term 169
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 170
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 171
CAPWAP (Control and Provisioning of Wireless Access Points) is a standard protocol that allows a central controller to manage multiple wireless access points, separating the control plane from the data plane in a wireless network.
Term 172
A Cloud Access Security Broker is a security policy enforcement point placed between cloud service consumers and cloud providers to monitor, control, and protect access to cloud resources.
Term 173
A CDN is a distributed network of servers that delivers web content to users based on their geographic location.
Term 174
A Certificate Signing Request (CSR) is a specially formatted message sent by an applicant to a Certificate Authority (CA) to request a digital certificate that binds their public key to their identity.
Term 175
A certificate warning is a security alert a web browser or application displays when it cannot fully trust the digital certificate presented by a website or service.
Term 176
Chain of custody is a documented process that tracks the handling, transfer, and possession of evidence or digital assets from the moment they are collected until they are presented in court or used in an investigation.
Term 177
Change enablement is the practice of controlling and managing all changes to IT services and infrastructure in a way that minimizes risk while delivering value.
Term 178
Change management is the structured process of planning, approving, implementing, and reviewing changes to IT systems to minimize risk and disruption.
Term 179
Chaos engineering is the practice of intentionally injecting failures into a system to test its resilience and find weaknesses before they cause real outages.
Term 180
A Check in Azure DevOps is a gating mechanism that evaluates predefined conditions before allowing a pipeline deployment to proceed to a specific environment.