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3. B, A financial plan for a defined period, often including planned sales volumes and revenues.
5. is a random selection of 20 words from the 400-word dataset, spanning the essentials of financial technology, executive strategy, and IT systems.
6. B, The maximum data transfer rate of a network or the mental capacity to handle a task.
12. D, The period during which a system, server, or network is shut down or unavailable for use.
14. E, The process of converting information or data into a code, especially to prevent unauthorized access.
18. D, A set of practices that combines software development and IT operations to shorten the systems development life cycle.
19. E, A network of organizations—including suppliers, distributors, and customers—involved in the delivery of a specific product.
20. A, The act of one company purchasing most or all of another company's shares to gain control.
21. S, The measure of a system’s ability to increase or decrease in performance and cost in response to changes in application and system processing demands.

1. O, Software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified.
2. A, The security process of verifying the identity of a user, device, or system.
4. C, The percentage of customers who stop using a company's product or service during a certain timeframe.
7. A, Application Programming Interface; a set of protocols that allows different software systems to communicate.
8. I, The composite hardware, software, network resources, and services required for the existence of an IT environment.
9. A, The systematic computational analysis of data or statistics used to support business decisions.
10. C, Financial assets or the real values of assets such as cash, hardware, and equipment.
11. B, A distributed, immutable ledger that facilitates the process of recording transactions.
13. S, The concept that the combined value and performance of two companies will be greater than the sum of the separate individual parts.
15. F, Relating to government revenue, especially taxes, or the financial dealings of a corporation.
16. L, The efficiency or ease with which an asset or security can be converted into ready cash.
17. D, Decentralized Finance; a blockchain-based form of finance that does not rely on central financial intermediaries.