Practice essential collocations for sustainability engineering in IT and software development.
0 / 5 completed
1 / 5
The platform team worked to ___ the carbon footprint of their services by scheduling jobs in low-carbon regions.
Reduce the carbon footprint is the standard sustainability collocation for decreasing the greenhouse gas emissions attributable to an activity. 'Lower along' and 'cut around' are informal. 'Drop out' has a different meaning and does not fit this context.
2 / 5
The SRE team aimed to ___ energy consumption by right-sizing instances and shutting down idle environments.
Minimise energy consumption is the standard green computing collocation for reducing the power used by computing resources to its lowest practical level. 'Cut along' and 'lower around' are informal. 'Reduce out' is redundant and not a standard phrase.
3 / 5
The engineering organisation set a goal to ___ efficiency across its data centres within three years.
Improve efficiency is the standard engineering and sustainability collocation for making a process use fewer resources for the same output. 'Raise along' and 'lift around' are informal. 'Build out' refers to expansion, not efficiency.
4 / 5
The company committed to ___ emissions targets that aligned with the Paris Agreement.
Set targets is the standard sustainability and management collocation for establishing measurable goals to work towards. 'Make along' and 'fix around' are informal. 'Lay out' is close but setting targets is the precise collocation here.
5 / 5
The team built a dashboard to ___ emissions across every cloud workload so they could report progress accurately.
Track emissions is the standard sustainability collocation for continuously monitoring the greenhouse gases produced by an activity. 'Follow along' and 'watch around' are informal. 'Check out' has a different meaning and does not fit this context.