| 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) |