Acronymns II (Optional) Flashcards
4GL
Fourth-generation language
ACID
Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation and Durability
ACL
Access control list
AES
Advanced Encryption Standard
AH
Authentication header
AI
Artificial intelligence
AICPA
American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
ALE
Annual loss expectancy
ALU
Arithmetic-logic unit
ANSI
American National Standards Institute
API
Application programming interface
ARP
Address Resolution Protocol
ASIC
Application-specific integrated circuit
ATDM
Asynchronous time division multiplexing
ATM (Technology)
Asynchronous Transfer Mode
ATM (Banking)
Automated teller machine
B-to-B
Business-to-business
B-to-C
Business-to-consumer
B-to-E
Business-to-employee
B-to-G
Business-to-government
BCI
Business Continuity Institute
BCM
Business continuity management
BCP
Business continuity plan
BCP
Business continuity planning
BDA
Business dependency assessment
BI
Business intelligence
BIA
Business impact analysis
BIMS
Biometric Information Management and Security
BIOS
Basic Input/Output System
BIS
Bank for International Settlements
BLP
Bypass label process
BNS
Backbone network services
BOM
Bill of materials
BOMP
Bill of materials processor
BPR
Business process reengineering
BRP
Business recovery (or resumption) plan
BSC
Balanced scorecard
C-to-G
Consumer-to-government
CA
Certificate authority
CAAT
Computer-assisted audit technique
CAD
Computer-assisted design
CAE
Computer-assisted engineering
CAM
Computer-aided manufacturing
CASE
Computer-aided software engineering
CCK
Complementary Code Keying
CCM
Constructive Cost Model
CD
Compact disk
CD-R
Compact disk-recordable
CD-RW
Compact disk-rewritable
CDDF
Call Data Distribution Function
CDPD
Cellular Digital Packet Data
CEO
Chief executive officer
CERT
Computer emergency response team
CGI
Common gateway interface
CIA
Confidentiality, integrity, and availability
CIAC
Computer Incident Advisory Capability
CICA
Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants
CIM
Computer-integrated manufacturing
CIO
Chief information officer
CIS
Continuous and intermittent simulation
CISO
Chief information security officer
CMDB
Configuration management database
CMM
Capability Maturity Model
CMMI
Capability Maturity Model Integration
CNC
Computerized Numeric Control
COCOMO2
Constructive Cost Model
CODASYL
Conference on Data Systems Language
COM
Component Object Model
COM/DCOM
Component Object Model/Distributed Component Object Model
COOP
Continuity of operations plan
CORBA
Common Object Request Broker Architecture
CoS
Class of service
COSO
Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission
CPM
Critical Path Methodology
CPO
Chief privacy officer
CPS
Certification practice statement
CRC
Cyclic redundancy check
CRL
Certificate revocation list
CRM
Customer relationship management
CSA
Control self-assessment
CSF
Critical success factor
CSIRT
Computer security incident response team
CSMA/CA
Carrier-sense Multiple Access/Collision Avoidance
CSMA/CD
Carrier-sense Multiple Access/Collision Detection
CSO
Chief security officer
CSU-DSU
Channel service unit/digital service unit
DAC
Discretionary access control
DASD
Direct access storage device
DAT
Digital audio tape
DBMS
Database management system
DCE
Data communications equipment
DCE
Distributed computing environment
DCOM
Distributed Component Object Model (Microsoft)
DCT
Discrete Cosine Transform
DD/DS
Data dictionary/directory system
DDL
Data Definition Language
DDN
Digital Divide Network
DDoS
Distributed denial of service
DECT
Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications
DES
Data Encryption Standard
DFD
Data flow diagram
DHCP
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
DID
Direct inward dial
DIP
Document image processing
DLL
Dynamic link library
DMS
Disk management system
DMZ
Demilitarized zone
DNS
Domain name system
DoS
Denial of service
DOSD
Data-oriented system development
DRII
Disaster Recovery Institute International
DRM
Digital rights management
DRP
Disaster recovery plan
DRP
Disaster recovery planning
DSL
Digital subscriber lines
DSS
Decision support systems
DSSS
Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum (DSSS)
DTE
Data terminal equipment
DTR
Data terminal ready
DVD
Digital video disc
DVD-HD
Digital video disc-high definition/high density
DW
Data warehouse
EA
Enterprise architecture
EAC
Estimates at completion
EAI
Enterprise application integration
EAM
Embedded audit module
EAP
Extensible Authentication Protocol
EBCDIC
Extended Binary-coded for Decimal Interchange Code
EC
Electronic commerce
ECC
Elliptic Curve Cryptography
EDFA
Enterprise data flow architecture
EDI
Electronic data interchange
EER
Equal-error rate
EFT
Electronic funds transfer
EIGRP
Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol
EJB
Enterprise java beans
EMI
Electromagnetic interference
EMRT
Emergency response time
ERD
Entity relationship diagram
ERP
Enterprise resource planning
ESP
Encapsulating security payload
EVA
Earned value analysis
FAR
False-acceptance rate
FAT
File allocation table
FC
Fibre channels
FDDI
Fiber Distributed Data Interface
FDM
Frequency division multiplexing
FEA
Federal enterprise architecture
FEMA
Federal Emergency Management Association (USA)
FER
Failure-to-enroll rate
FERC
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (USA)
FFIEC
Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (USA)
FFT
Fast Fourier Transform
FHSS
Frequency-hopping spread spectrum
FIPS
Federal Information Processing Standards
FP
Function point
FPA
Function point analysis
FRAD
Frame relay assembler/disassembler
FRB
Federal Reserve Board (USA)