100 Common Computer Technology Related Acronyms and their full form



Sl    Acronym                         Full Form

1 4D-PAM 4-dimensional 5-level Pulse Amplitude Modulation.
2 ACM Association For Computing Machinery
3 ANSI American National Standards Institute
4 ARP Address Resolution Protocol
5 ARPA Advanced Research Project Agency
6 ATAPI Adavance Technology Attachement Packet Interface
7 ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode Network
8 AWC Association For Women in Computing
9 B8ZS Bipolar with 8 zero substitution
10 BASIC Beginners All-puprose Symbolic Instruction Code
11 BD    Blue Ray Disk
12 BIOS Basic Input/ Output System
13 BNC Bayonet Neill Concelman connector
14 CCITT Consultative Committee For International Telegraphy And Telephony
15 CHS Cylinder Head Sector
16 CKD Count Key Data
17 COBOL COmmon Business Oriented language
18 COTS Commercial Off The Shelf (A type of 3rd party software)
19 CSMA/CD Carrier Sense Multiple Access with collision detection.
20 DASD Direct Access Storage Device
21 DDCD Double Density Compact Disk
22 DEC Digital Equipment Corporation
23 DIVX Digital Video Express
24 DSL Digital Subscribers Line
25 DVD Digital Versatile Disk
26 EAV Entity Attribute Value (database Model)
27 ECKD Extended Count Key Data
28 EEPROM Electrically Eraseable Programmable Read Only Memory
29 EIA               Electronic Industries Association
30 ENIAC Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (First Electronic Digital Computer)

31 EPROM Eraseable Programmable Read Only Memory
32 EVD Enhance Versatile Disk
33 FBA Fixed Block Architecture
34 FCC Federal Communications Commission 
35 GIGO Garbage In Garbage Out
36 GNU Gnu Grand Unified Bootloader
37 HBA Host Bus Adapter
38 HDB3 High Density Bipolar 3-zero
39 HFC Hybrid Fiber Coaxial network
40 HVD Holographic Versatile Disk
41 ICMP Internet Control Message Protocol
42 IEC               International Electrotechnical Commission
43 IEEE Institute Of Electrical And Electronics Engineers
44 IGMP Internet Group Message Protocol
45 IMP              Interface Message Processor
46 INCITS International Committee For Information Technology Standards
47 IP                 Internetworking Protocol
48 ISO              International Organization for Standardization
49 ITU-T International Telecommunication Union-telecommunication Standards Sector
50 LPT Port Line Print Terminal
51 MBR Master Boot Record
52 MLT Multiline transmission
53 MOD Magneto-Optical Disk
54 MODS disk Muliplex Optical Data storage disk
55 NCP Network Control Protocol
56 NOS Network Operating System
57 NTLDR Nt Loader
58 OLAP Online Analytical Processing
59 PCB Printed Circuit Board
60 PCD Protien Coated Disk
61 PCI                Peripheral Component Interconnect
62 PC-XT Personal Computer Extended Technology
63 PDD Professional Disk for Data
64 POS Point of sales
65 POST Power On Self Test
66 RARP Reverse Address Resolution protocol
67 SAS               Serial Attached Scsi ( Small Computer System Interface)
68 SATA Serial Advanced Technology Attachement
69 SCSI Small Computer System interface
70 SCTP Stream Control Transfer Protocol

71 SPI                Serial Peripheral Interface Bus
72 SSI                Synchronous Serial Interface
73 TCP              Transmission Control Protocol
74 TRADIC TRAnsistor DIgital Computer or TRansistor Airborne DIgital Computer
75 UDO Ultra Density Optical
76 UDP User Datagram Protocol
77 UMD Universal Media Disk
78 VBR Volume Boot Record
79 VCD Video Compact Disk
80 VMD Versatile Multilayer Disk
81 CRUD Create, Read, Update and Delete
82 XSS                Cross Site Scripting
83 CSRF/XSRF Cross Site Request Forgery
84 SAML Securtiy Assertion Mark-up Language
85 DES Data Encryption Standard
86 AES Advanced Encryption Standard
87 XBLR Extensible Business Reporting language
88 IANA Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
89 NTP Network Time Protocol
90 TFTP Trivial File transfer Protocol
91 POP3 Post Office Protocol
92 IRC                Internet Relay Chat Protocol
93 AMPS Advanced Mobile Phone System
94 POTS Plain Old Telephone System
95 SONET Synchronous Optical Network
96 DOCSIS Data Over Cable System Interface Specification
97    BIOS             Basic Input Output System
98    PDF               Portable Document Format
99    HTML           HyperText Markup Language
100  URL               Uniform Resource Locator

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