Archives: Glossary Terms

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Quality Criteria

  Definition: Quality Criteria refers to a check box that denotes documentation is available in quality criteria, e.g. validation rules set. What This Means: A

Query

  Definition: A query is a custom report generated by a statement (question) posed to a database. What This Means: Standard reports are somebody else’s

RAM

  Definition: Random access memory. RAM is commonly considered synonymous with main memory (i.e., the memory available to programs in use on a computer).

Rank

  Definition: Rank is an alternative sorting order for the Option within the Option Set. What This Means: A term that is functional for users

Real Time

  Definition: Real time is a level of computer responsiveness that a user senses as sufficiently immediate or that enables the computer to keep

Reliability

  Definition: The probability that a system, including all hardware, firmware (code that manages individual hardware components), and software will satisfactorily perform the task

Remote Access

  Definition: A service which makes it possible to connect to a network, such as the campus network or the Internet, from a distant