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Acceptable alternative data Center location - A country that is identified as providing equivalent or stronger data protection than the United States, in terms of both regulation and enforcement.

Acceptance Criteria –  A set of conditions that has to be met before deliverables are accepted.

Accuracy - Within the quality management, accuracy is an assessment of correctness.

Action Plan - A plan that describes what needs to be done and when it needs to be completed.

Actual Cost - total costs incurred (direct and indirect) in accomplishing work during a given time period.

Adaptive Approach - A development approach in which the requirements are subject to a high level of uncertainty and volatility, and are likely to change throughout the project.

Advanced Encryption Standard - Symmetric encryption algorithm widely used to secure data. It is important in various applications, including securing sensitive information and communications.

Affinity Diagram - A diagram that shows large numbers of ideas classified into groups for review and analysis.

Affinity Grouping - The process of classifying items into similar categories or collection based on their likeness.

Agile - is a project management and software development approach that uses incremental and interactive steps to complete projects. While traditional project management linearly plans projects into discrete states, Agile prioritizes collaboration in short-term development cycles that adapt and adjust based on stakeholder feedback.

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud -  It is a web service that provides scalable computing capacity in the cloud.

Amazon Elastic MapReduce - A cloud-based big data platform that facilitates processing and analyzing large datasets using frameworks such as Apache Hadoop, Apache Spark, and Apache HBase. 

Amazon Flexible Payment Service - a service provided by Amazon that allowed developers to integrate payment processing capabilities into their applications and websites. 

Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) - An object storage service offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) designed for scalability, data availability, security, and performance. 

Amazon Web Services - A comprehensive cloud computing platform offered by Amazon, providing a wide range of services for computing, storage, networking, machine learning, analytics, and more. 

Analysis – The study and examination of something complex and the separation into its more simple components. Analysis typically includes discovering not only what the parts of the item being studied are, but also how they fit together. An example is the study of schedule variances for cause, impact, corrective action, and results.

Application Area – A category of projects that have a common element not present in all

Application Programming Interface - A set of rules and protocols that allows different software applications to communicate with each other.  APIs enable developers to access specific functionalities or data from other software services without needing to understand the underlying code or architecture. 

Application Programming Interface Management - Refers to the processes and tools that enable organizations to create, publish, secure, and analyze application programming interfaces (APIs). APIM solutions typically provide functionalities such as: API Gateway, security, analytics, developer portal, rate limiting and throttling.

Application Performance Management - A set of tools and processes used to monitor and manage the performance and availability of software applications.  

Approve – To accept as satisfactory. Approval implies that the item approved has the endorsement of the approving entity. The approval may still require confirmation by somebody else, as in levels of approval. In management use, the important distinction is between approve and authorize.

Areas of Responsibility – Used to define the person or organizational entity responsible for specific policy areas, processes, and procedures as identified. The current levels of responsibility are Legislature, Department of Management and Budget, state agency, and customer

Artificial Intelligence - Technology that enables computer and machines to simulate human learning, comprehension, problem solving, decision making, creativity and autonomy. 

Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations - The use of artificial intelligence and machine learning to analyze data from IT operations and automate processes, improving efficiency and decision-making in managing IT systems. 

Authorization – The power granted by management to specified individuals allowing them to approve transactions, procedures, or total systems. Defined as the final organization authority.

Authorized Persons - The service provider's employees, contractors, subcontractors or other agents who have responsibility in protecting or have access to the public jurisdiction's personal data and non-public data to enable the service provider to perform the service required

Assumption - Factors that, for planning purposes, are considered to be true, real, or certain without proof or demonstration.

Authorized Work – An effort that has been approved by higher authority and may or may not be

Award Date - The date a contract is completed and sent to the vendor. For procurements processed by the Purchasing Division, the award date is the date the contract is encumbered and delivered.