| Subject | English | German |
| commun., IT, el. | active mode | aktiver Betriebsmodus |
| microel. | active mode | Betriebsweise mit aktiver Leistung (Gegensatz: Betriebsart im Bereitschaftszustand) |
| comp., MS | active/active mode | Aktiv/Aktiv-Modus (The mode in which Application Request Routing is deployed on two or more servers to achieve both high availability and scalability) |
| comp., MS | active/passive mode | Aktiv/Passiv-Modus (The mode in which Application Request Routing is deployed on two ARR servers that process requests and that together act as a failover server. This configuration can achieve high availability, but is still limited by the maximum capacity of one ARR server) |