PART 2: Amazon Music: Careers Behind the Beats Tour

Question 1

Computers are trained using __________ to learn what people like to listen to and make new music recommendations.

Accepted Answer

machine learning

Question 2

Engineers write the code for the buttons, menus, and other design of an app’s _______.

Accepted Answer

front end

Question 3

A UX designer passes over ___________ to a front end engineer so they know exactly what to code.

Accepted Answer

requirements

Question 4

Producers use _________, like microphones, instruments, and mixing boards to capture sound inputs.

Accepted Answer

hardware

Question 5

The pitch of a sound is determined by a wave’s _______ - the distance between two of the same points in a wave.

Accepted Answer

wavelength

Question 6

How long would it take to listen to all the music currently available on Amazon Music if you listened without stopping?

Accepted Answer

Over 500 years

Question 7

When crafting buttons and app flow, designers focus on the _____, the way a customer thinks or feels when using the app.

Accepted Answer

User Experience (UX)

Question 8

______ allows people to access music files on demand over the Internet, instead of lugging around heavy records.

Accepted Answer

Streaming

Question 9

Record labels own a _______ for their artists’ songs, which gives them the right to choose who can use their property.

Accepted Answer

copyright

Question 10

Engineers ___ and check packages that contain songs, information, and artwork before the track enters the music catalog.

Accepted Answer

ingest

Question 11

What is one responsibility of a back-end engineer in a music app?

Accepted Answer

Write the code that retrieves the correct song data

Question 12

Machine learning requires software to take in lots of _______, like the genre of a song or what other users listen to.

Accepted Answer

data

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