Sustainable software engineering is a growing priority. This quiz covers the collocations used when discussing carbon reduction, energy optimisation, and sustainability reporting.
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The engineering team's sustainability goal is to ___ emissions from our cloud workloads by 30%.
Reduce emissions is the standard green software collocation — sustainability goals are framed as reducing emissions in absolute or intensity terms.
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We use the Cloud Carbon Footprint tool to ___ carbon footprint across all AWS accounts.
Measure carbon footprint is the correct collocation — teams measure carbon footprint to establish baselines and track improvement over time.
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The platform team is working to ___ energy consumption by right-sizing idle instances.
Optimise energy consumption is the standard collocation — green software practitioners optimise energy consumption through efficiency improvements.
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We plan to ___ batch workloads to times when the grid uses more renewable energy.
Shift workloads is the correct collocation — temporal and spatial shifting of workloads is a core strategy for reducing carbon intensity.
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The annual ESG report will ___ sustainability metrics from all engineering divisions.
Report sustainability is the standard collocation — organisations report sustainability metrics to meet regulatory obligations and stakeholder expectations.