Across
- 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.
Down
- 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.
