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Exam Acronyms Flashcards

1
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ACL

A

Access Control List

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ASCII

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American Standard for

Computer Information Interchange

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BASH

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Bourne Again Shell

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BIOS

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Basic Input Output System

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CIFS

A

Common Internet File System

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CPU

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Central Processing Unit

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CUPS

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Common Unix Printing System

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CVE

A

Common Vulnerability and Exposures

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DHCP

A

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

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DTLS

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Datagram Transport Layer Security

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EFI

A

Extensible Firmware Interface

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EPEL

A

Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux

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FTP

A

File Transfer Protocol

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GCC

A

GNU Compiler Collection

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15
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GPIO

A

General Purpose Input Output

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GPT

A

GUID Partition Table

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17
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GPU

A

Graphics Processing Unit

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GRUB

A

Grand Unified Bootloader

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GUI

A

Graphical User Interface

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GUID

A

Global Unique Identifier

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HBA

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Host Bus Adapter

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HTTP

A

Hypertext Transfer Protocol

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HTTPd

A

Hypertext Transfer Protocol daemon

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IO

A

Input Output

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IP

A

Internet Protocol

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IPSEC

A

Internet Protocol Security

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ISO

A

International Organization for Standardization

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JSON

A

JavaScript Object Notation

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KDE

A

K Desktop Environment

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LDAP

A

Lightweight Directory Authentication Protocol

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LUKS

A

Linux Unified Key Setup

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LVM

A

Logical Volume Manager

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MBR

A

Master Boot Record

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MD5

A

Message Digest 5

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MOTD

A

Message of the Day

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NAT

A

Network Address Translation

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NFS

A

Network File System

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NTFS

A

New Technology File System

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NTP

A

Network Time Protocol

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OTP

A

One Time Password

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OVA

A

Open Virtualization Appliance

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OVF

A

Open Virtualization Format

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PAM

A

Pluggable Authentication Module

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PCI

A

Peripheral Component Interconnect

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PID

A

Process ID

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PKI

A

Public Key Infrastructure

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PTY

A

Pseudoterminal

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PXE

A

Pre-execution Boot

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RADIUS

A

Remote Authentication Dial-in User Service

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RAID

A

Redundant Array of Independent Disks

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RDMA

A

Remote Direct Memory Access

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RPM

A

RPM Package Manager

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SATA

A

Serial Advanced Technology Attachment

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SCSI

A

Small Computer Systems Interface

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SELinux

A

Security Enhanced Linux

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SHA

A

Secure Hash Algorithm

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SMB

A

Server Message Block

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SNMP

A

Simple Network Management Protocol

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SSH

A

Secure Shell

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SSL

A

Secure Sockets Layer

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SUID

A

Set User ID

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TACACS+

A

Terminal Access Controller

Access Control System Plus

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TAR

A

Tape Archive

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TCP

A

Transmission Control Protocol

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TLS

A

Transport Layer Security

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TTY

A

Terminal Type

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UEFI

A

Unified Extensible Firmware Interface

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USB

A

Universal Serial Bus

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UTF

A

Unicode Transformation Format

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VM

A

Virtual Machine

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VNC

A

Virtual Network Computing

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VPN

A

Virtual Private Network

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XFS

A

Extents File System

74
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XRDP

A

XWindows Remote Desktop Protocol

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YAML

A

Yet Another Markup Language

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YUM

A

Yellowdog Updater Modified

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