| Subject | English | Chinese simplified |
| comp., MS | fault domain | 容错域 (The physical point of failure in a data center for a cloud service role. For roles with more than one instance, Windows Azure deploys the instances in different fault domains to guard against outages due to physical computer failures in the data center) |
| comp., MS | fault injection | 错误注入 (A technology allowing users to inject faults into an executable without requiring rebuilding the binary or modifying the source code; thus, providing a means of simulating errors and testing recovery) |
| comp., MS | fault tolerance | 容错 (The ability of computer hardware or software to ensure data integrity when hardware failures occur. Fault-tolerant features appear in many server operating systems and include mirrored volumes, RAID-5 volumes, and server clusters) |
| comp., MS | fault tolerant heap | 容错堆 (A heap manager that can tolerate some types of programming errors (faults) which in the default Windows heap manager would result in crashes) |
| comp., MS | fault tree analysis diagram | 故障树分析图 (A type of diagram commonly used to illustrate events that might lead to a failure so the failure can be prevented) |
| comp., MS | general protection fault | 一般性保护错误 (The error condition that occurs in an 80386 or higher processor running in protected mode (such as Windows 3.1) when an application attempts to access memory outside of its authorized memory space or when an invalid instruction is issued) |
| comp., MS | GP fault | GP 错误 (The error condition that occurs in an 80386 or higher processor running in protected mode (such as Windows 3.1) when an application attempts to access memory outside of its authorized memory space or when an invalid instruction is issued) |
| comp., MS | kernel fault | 内核错误 (An exception that occurs while the operating system is executing internal code (in drivers, the kernel, etc)) |
| comp., MS | page fault | 页面错误 (" The interrupt that occurs when software attempts to read from or write to a virtual memory location that is marked "not present.") |
| comp., MS | Page Faults Delta | 页面错误增量 (In Task Manager, the change in the number of page faults since the last update) |
| comp., MS | SOAP fault | SOAP 错误 (A collection of elements in a SOAP message that identify the code and cause of an error) |