| English | French |
| boot critical driver | pilote critique de démarrage (A driver that must be available in order for the operating system to successfully complete the boot process. Boot critical drivers include all boot start drivers) |
| critical alert | alerte critique (An alert that indicates that a protection group requires immediate attention. Critical problems are caused by significant abnormal (unexpected) behavior that affects data protected by DPS) |
| critical exception | exception critique (An exception that leads to a monitored component's failure. For ASP.NET applications, a critical exception results in the user seeing either the standard or a custom error page. For web services, critical exceptions are those that ASP.NET serializes into valid SOAP messages on the server-side, and deserializes to SOAP exceptions on the ASP.NET client) |
| critical path | chemin critique (The series of activities that determines the duration of the project. In a deterministic model, the critical path is usually defined as those activities with float less than or equal to a specified value, often zero. It is the longest path through the project) |
| critical path method | Méthode du chemin critique (A project management method of calculating the total duration of a project based on individual task durations and their dependencies) |
| critical section | section critique (A segment of code which is not reentrant; that is, it does not support concurrent access by multiple threads. Often, a critical section is used to protect shared resources) |
| critical task | tâche critique (A task that must be completed on schedule for the project to finish on time. If a critical task is delayed, the project completion date might also be delayed. A series of critical tasks makes up a project's critical path) |
| mission-critical | stratégique (Pertaining to information, equipment, or other assets of a business or project that are essential to the successful operation of the organization. For example, accounting data and customer records are often considered mission critical information) |
| multiple critical paths | chemins critiques multiples (A series of tasks that must be completed on schedule for a project to finish on schedule. Identify and track multiple critical paths to be more effective in managing conditions that could affect your project's finish date) |
| security-critical | membre ou type critique de sécurité (Pertaining to a type or member that accesses secure resources and can only be used by fully trusted code in the .NET Framework) |
| security-safe-critical | critique sécurisé (Pertaining to a type or member that accesses secure resources and can be safely used by partially trusted code in the .NET Framework) |
