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FIRST PUBLISH OCTOBER 2024
AP Computer Science Principles: Big Data
and Privacy Exam Study Guide
Big Data - ANSWER✔✔-a broad term for datasets so large or complex that traditional data processing
applications are inadequate
Moore's Law - ANSWER✔✔-a prediction made by Gordon Moore (1965) that computing power will
double every 1.5-2 years; it has remained more or less true ever since
One-Pager - ANSWER✔✔-a business/corporate term for one-page document that summarizes a large
issue, topic, or plan
Caesar Cipher - ANSWER✔✔-a technique for encryption that shifts the alphabet by some number of
characters
Cipher - ANSWER✔✔-the generic term for a technique (or algorithm) that performs encryption
Cracking Encryption - ANSWER✔✔-when you attempt to decode a secret message without knowing all
the specifics of the cipher, you are trying to "crack" the encryption
Decryption - ANSWER✔✔-a process that reverses the encryption, taking a secret message and
reproducing the original plain text
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FIRST PUBLISH OCTOBER 2024
AP Computer Science Principles: Big Data
and Privacy Exam Study Guide
Big Data - ANSWER✔✔-a broad term for datasets so large or complex that traditional data processing
applications are inadequate
Moore's Law - ANSWER✔✔-a prediction made by Gordon Moore (1965) that computing power will
double every 1.5-2 years; it has remained more or less true ever since
One-Pager - ANSWER✔✔-a business/corporate term for one-page document that summarizes a large
issue, topic, or plan
Caesar Cipher - ANSWER✔✔-a technique for encryption that shifts the alphabet by some number of
characters
Cipher - ANSWER✔✔-the generic term for a technique (or algorithm) that performs encryption
Cracking Encryption - ANSWER✔✔-when you attempt to decode a secret message without knowing all
the specifics of the cipher, you are trying to "crack" the encryption
Decryption - ANSWER✔✔-a process that reverses the encryption, taking a secret message and
reproducing the original plain text
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