Brainscape's Knowledge GenomeTM

Browse over 1 million classes created by top students, professors, publishers, and experts.


See full index

Comp IT > Comp A+ Acronyms > Flashcards

Comp A+ Acronyms Flashcards

1
Q

CPU

A

Central Processing Unit

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
2
Q

RAM

A

Random Access Memory

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
3
Q

ROM

A

Read Only Memory

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
4
Q

LCD

A

Liquid Crystal Display

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
5
Q

OS

A

Operating System

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
6
Q

BIOS

A

Basic input/output system

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
7
Q

UEFI

A

Unified Extensible Firmware Interface

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
8
Q

POST

A

Power-on Self Test

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
9
Q

GPT

A

Guid Partition Table

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
10
Q

HDD

A

Hard Disk Drive

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
11
Q

SATA

A

Serial Advanced Technology Attachment

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
12
Q

SSD

A

Solid State Drive

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
13
Q

SD

A

Secure Digital

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
14
Q

CF

A

Compact Flash

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
15
Q

SM

A

Smart Media

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
16
Q

XD

A

Picture card

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
17
Q

MS

A

Memory Stick

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
18
Q

MMS

A

Multimedia stick

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
19
Q

MMC

A

Multimedia cards

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
20
Q

SSHD

A

Solid State Hybrid Drive

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
21
Q

CD-ROM

A

Compact Disk- Read Only Memory

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
22
Q

CD-RW

A

Compact Disk- Rewrittable

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
23
Q

DVD-ROM

A

Digital Versatile Disk- Read Only memory

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
24
Q

LTFS

A

Linear Tape File System

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
25
Q

LTO

A

Linear Tape-Open

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
26
Q

EMMC

A

Embedded Multi-Media Controller

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
27
Q

DRM

A

Digital Rights Management

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
28
Q

USB

A

Universal Serial Bus Connection

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
29
Q

USBIF

A

Universal Serial Bus Implementers Forum

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
30
Q

IEEE

A

Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
31
Q

VGA

A

Video Graphics Array

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
32
Q

HDMI

A

High Definition Multimedia Interface

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
33
Q

DVI

A

Digital Visual Interface

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
34
Q

SPDIF

A

Sony Phillips Digital Interface Format

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
35
Q

RF

A

Radio Frequency

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
36
Q

NFC

A

Near Field Communication

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
37
Q

IR

A

Infrared

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
38
Q

LED

A

Light Emitting Diodes

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
39
Q

ESD

A

Electro-Static Discharge

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
40
Q

EMI

A

Electromagnetic Interference

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
41
Q

AC

A

Alternating Current

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
42
Q

DC

A

Direct Current

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
43
Q

MPE

A

Maximum Permissible Exposure

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
44
Q

NIC

A

Network Interface Card

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
45
Q

PII

A

Personally Identifiable Information

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
46
Q

ATX

A

Advanced Technology eXtended

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
47
Q

PCI

A

Peripheral Component Interconnect

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
48
Q

IRQ

A

Interrupt Requests

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
49
Q

PnP

A

Plug and Play

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
50
Q

PCIe

A

Peripheral Component Interconnect Express

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
51
Q

PCIx

A

Peripheral Component Interconnect extended

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
52
Q

GT/s

A

Gigatransfers per second

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
53
Q

DIMM

A

Dual Inline Memory Module

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
54
Q

RIMM

A

Rombus Inline Memory Module

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
55
Q

EPIA

A

Embedded Platform Innovative Architecture

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
56
Q

APM

A

Advanced Power Management

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
57
Q

IHA

A

Intel Hub Architecture

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
58
Q

GMCH

A

Graphics and AGP Memory Controller Hub

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
59
Q

ICH

A

I/O Controller Hub

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
60
Q

PGA

A

Pin Grid Array

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
61
Q

TDP

A

Thermal Designed Power

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
62
Q

LGA

A

Land Grid Array

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
63
Q

QPI

A

Quick Path Interconnect

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
64
Q

HT

A

Hyper Threading

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
65
Q

GPU

A

Graphics Processing Unit

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
66
Q

VRM

A

Voltage Regulator Module

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
67
Q

MMX

A

Multi-media Extensions

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
68
Q

EDB

A

Execute Disable Bit

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
69
Q

PSU

A

Power Supply Unit

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
70
Q

SRAM

A

Static Random Access Memory

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
71
Q

DRAM

A

Dynamic Random Access Memory

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
72
Q

DDR

A

Double Date Rate

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
73
Q

ECC

A

Error Correcting Code

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
74
Q

CAS

A

Column Address Strobe

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
75
Q

RAS

A

Row Access Strobe

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
76
Q

RP

A

Row Precharge

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
77
Q

GPF

A

General Protection Faults

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
78
Q

RAID

A

Redundant Array of Independent Disks

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
79
Q

EEPROM

A

Electronically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
80
Q

MBR

A

Master Boot Record

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
81
Q

TPM

A

Trusted Platform Module

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
82
Q

SMART

A

Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
83
Q

AUP

A

Acceptable Use Policy

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
84
Q

IPS

A

Intrusion Prevention System

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
85
Q

IDS

A

Intrusion Detection System

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
86
Q

VPN

A

Virtual Private Networks

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
87
Q

EULA

A

End User License Agreement

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
88
Q

GHU GPC

A

General Public License

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
89
Q

CCFL

A

Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamp

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
90
Q

TN

A

Twisted Nematic

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
91
Q

IPS

A

In-Plane Switching

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
92
Q

OLED

A

Organic Light Emitting Diode

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
93
Q

CRT

A

Cathode Ray Tube

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
94
Q

DVI-A

A

Digital Visual Interface- Analog

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
95
Q

DVI-D

A

Digital Visual Interface- Digital

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
96
Q

DVI-I

A

Digital Visual Interface- Integrated

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
97
Q

DTV

A

Digital TV

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
98
Q

HDTV

A

High Definition TV

99
Q

SDTV

A

Standard Definition TV

100
Q

EDTV

A

Enhanced Digital TV

101
Q

RCA

A

Radio Corporation of America

102
Q

BNC

A

Bayonet Neil Concelman

103
Q

OSD

A

On Screen Display

104
Q

CMOS

A

Complimentary Metal Oxide Semiconductor

105
Q

BSOD

A

Blue Screen of Death

106
Q

DAC

A

Digital to Audio Conveter

107
Q

MIDI

A

Musical Instrument Digital Interface

108
Q

KVM

A

Keyboard, Video, Mouse switch

109
Q

AGP

A

Accelerated Graphics Processor

110
Q

SIMM

A

Single In-line Memory module

111
Q

MMC

A

Microsoft Management Console

112
Q

ESP

A

EFI System Partition

113
Q

WDS

A

Windows Deployment Services

114
Q

PROM

A

Programmable Read Only Memory

115
Q

GUI

A

Graphic User Interface

116
Q

CCD

A

Charge Coupled Device

117
Q

DMA

A

Direct Memory Access

118
Q

SODIMM

A

Small Outline Dual In-line Memory Module

119
Q

TFT

A

Thin Film Transistor

120
Q

IMEI

A

International Mobile Equipment Identify Number

121
Q

EIR

A

Equipment Identity Register

122
Q

IMSI

A

International Mobile Subscriber Identity Number

123
Q

PRI

A

Preferred Roaming Index

124
Q

PRL

A

Preferred Roaming List

125
Q

POP3

A

Post Office Protocol version 3

126
Q

IMAP4

A

Internet Mail Access Protocol version 4

127
Q

TB

128
Q

RSMMC

A

Reduced Sized Multi-Media Cards

129
Q

CDFS

A

Compact Disk File System

130
Q

UDF

A

Universal Disc Format

131
Q

ESATA

A

External Serial Advanced Technology Attachment

132
Q

MFD

A

Multi Function Device

133
Q

EP Drum

A

Electrostatic Photographic Drum

134
Q

NLQ

A

Near Letter Quality

135
Q

TCP/IP

A

Transmission Control Protocol/ Internet Protocol

136
Q

AP

A

Access Point

137
Q

UAC

A

User Account Control

138
Q

TMDS

A

Transition Minimized Differential Signaling

139
Q

VT

A

Virtual Technology

140
Q

PXE

A

Preboot Execution Enviroment

141
Q

MBR

A

Master Boot Record

142
Q

FAT

A

File Allocation Table

143
Q

ExFAT

A

Extended File Allocation Table

144
Q

CAB

A

Cabinet Files

145
Q

VHD

A

Virtual Hard Disk

146
Q

WinRE

A

Windows Recovery Enviroment

147
Q

PID

A

Process ID

148
Q

COM

A

Component Object Model

149
Q

ODBC

A

Open Database Connectivity

150
Q

USMT

A

User State Migration Tool

151
Q

ILM

A

Independent Load Mechanism

152
Q

HKEY

A

Handle to Registry Key

153
Q

VMM

A

Virtual Machine Manager

154
Q

SDRAM

A

Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory

155
Q

TPM

A

Trusted Platform Module

156
Q

CGI

A

Computer Generated Imagery

157
Q

SAM

A

Security Accounts Manager

158
Q

RDP

A

Remote Desktop Protocol

159
Q

LAN

A

Local Area Network

160
Q

PAN

A

Personal Area Network

161
Q

WPAN

A

Wireless Personal Area Network

162
Q

MAN

A

Metropolitan Area Network

163
Q

PoE

A

Power over Ethernet

164
Q

DHCP

A

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

165
Q

DNS

A

Domain Name System

166
Q

IDS

A

Intrusion Detection System

167
Q

IPS

A

Intrusion Protection System

168
Q

NIPS

A

Network Intrusion Protection System

169
Q

UTM

A

Unified Threat Management

170
Q

NIST

A

National Institute of Standards and Technology

171
Q

IaaS

A

Infrastructure as a Service

172
Q

PaaS

A

Platform as a Service

173
Q

EC2

A

Elastic Compute Cloud

174
Q

S3

A

Simple Storage Service

175
Q

RDS

A

Relational Database Service

176
Q

ACL

A

Access Control List

177
Q

MAC

A

Media Access Control

178
Q

UTP

A

Unshelled Twisted Pair

179
Q

STP

A

Shielded Twisted Pair

180
Q

PVC

A

Polyvinyl Chloride

181
Q

TIA

A

Telecommunications Industry Association

182
Q

EIA

A

Electronic Industry Alliance

183
Q

FRP

A

Flexible Reinforced Plastic

184
Q

ST

A

Straight Tip

185
Q

SC

A

Subscriber/ Standard Connector

186
Q

FC

A

Face Contact

187
Q

LC

A

Local Connector

188
Q

SMA

A

Sub Multi- Assembly/ Sub Miniature Type A

189
Q

MTRJ

A

Mechanical Transfer Registered Jack

190
Q

TCP/IP

A

Transmission Control Protocol/ Internet Protocol

191
Q

UDP

A

User Datagram Protocol

192
Q

CIDR

A

Classless- Inter Domain Routing

193
Q

APIPA

A

Automatic Private IP Addressing

194
Q

DSL

A

Digital Subscriber Line

195
Q

ISDN

A

Integrated Services Digital Network

196
Q

IANA

A

Internet Assigned Numbers Authority

197
Q

LDAP

A

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol

198
Q

SMB

A

Server Message Block

199
Q

CIFS

A

Common Internet File System

200
Q

SSH

A

Secure Shell

201
Q

AFP

A

Apple File Protocol

202
Q

WAP

A

Wireless Access Point

203
Q

WOL

A

Wake-on-LAN

204
Q

QoS

A

Quality of Service

205
Q

DMZ

A

Demilitarized Zone

206
Q

NAT

A

Network Address Translation

207
Q

ICS

A

Internet Connecting Sharing

208
Q

DNAT

A

Dynamic Network Address Translation

209
Q

UNC

A

Universal Naming Convention

210
Q

IPC

A

InterProcess Communication

211
Q

SSID

A

Service Set Identifier

212
Q

DDoS

A

Distributed Denial of Service Attack

213
Q

DLP

A

Data Loss Prevention

214
Q

IPSec

A

Internet Protocol Security

215
Q

ACL

A

Access Control List

216
Q

GUID

A

Globally Unique Identifier

217
Q

GPRS

A

General Packet Radio Service

218
Q

PSTN

A

Public Switch Telephone Network

219
Q

SMB

A

Service Message Block

220
Q

AFP

A

Apple File Protocol

221
Q

NAT

A

Network Address Translation

222
Q

DNAT

A

Dynamic Network Address Translation

223
Q

ICS

A

Internet Connecting Sharing

224
Q

UNC

A

Universal Naming Convention

225
Q

FTP

A

File Transfer Protocol

226
Q

SLA

A

Service Level Agreement

227
Q

ISM

A

Industrial, Scientific, and Medical

228
Q

WEP

A

Wired Equivalent Privacy

229
Q

WPA

A

Wi-Fi Protected Access

230
Q

TKIP

A

Temporal Key Integrity Protocol

231
Q

AES

A

Advanced Encryption Standard

232
Q

CCMP

A

Cipher Block Chaining Message Authentication Code Protocol

233
Q

EFS

A

Encrypting File System

234
Q

COPE

A

Corporate Owned, Personally Enabled

235
Q

BCD

A

Boot Configuration Data

236
Q

WER

A

Windows Error Reporting

237
Q

LSA

A

Local Security Authority

238
Q

ELAM

A

Early Launch Anti-Malware

239
Q

OLE

A

Object Linking and Embedding

240
Q

DLL

A

Dynamic Link Library

241
Q

ARC

A

Advanced Risk Computing

242
Q

TTL

A

Time To Live

243
Q

UMA

A

Unlicensed Mobile Access

Comp IT (7 decks)

Brainscape helps you reach your goals faster, through stronger study habits.
© 2025 Bold Learning Solutions. Terms and Conditions