Computer Abbreviations for PA / SA Exam 2014 - Part 1

	ACE	Access Control Entry
	ACL	Access Control List
	ADO	Active Data Objects
	ADSL	Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
	AGP	Accelerated Graphics Port
	AI	Artificial Intelligence
	ALGOL	Algorithmic Language
	ALU	Arithmetic Logic Unit
	ANSI	American National Standards Institute
	AOL	America Online
	API	Application Program Interface
	APIPA	Automatic Private Internet Protocol Addressing
	APT	Automatically Programmed Tooling
	ARD	Address Resolution Protocol
	ARP	Address Resolution Protocol
	ARPA	Advanced Research Projects Agency
	ARPANET	Advanced Research Projects Agency Network
	ASCII	American Standard Code For Information Interchange
	ASF	Advanced Streaming Format
	ASM	Association For Systems Management
	ASP	Active Server Pages
	ATAPI	Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface
	ATM	Asynchronous Transfer Mode
	AUI	Attachment Unit Interface
	AVI	Audio Video Interleave
	B2B	Business To Business
	B2C	Business To Commerce
	BASIC	Beginner`s All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
	BCD	Binary Coded Decimal
	BDPS	Business Data Processing Systems
	BHTML	Broadcast Hyper Text Markup Language
	BIOS	Basic Input Output System
	BIU	Bus Interface Unit
	BLOG	Binary Logic Object
	BMP	Bitmap
	BPS	Bytes Per Seconds
	BS	Bulletin Board Service
	C DAC	Centre For Development Of Advanced Computing
	CAD	Computer Aided Design
	CADD	Computer Added Drafting And Design
	CAI	Computer Aided Instructuion
	CAM	Computer Aided Manufacturing
	CAR	Control Address Register
	CASE	Computer Aided Software Engineering
	CCIS	Common Channel Interoffice Signaling
	CCNA	Cisco Certified Network Associate
	CD	Compact Disc
	CD RW	Compact Disc Re-Writable
	CD WORM	Compact Disc- Write Once Read Many
	CDMA	Code Division Multiple Access
	CDONTS	Collabaration On Data Objects For Windows Nt Server
	CDROM	Compact Disc- Read Only Memory
	CFG	Control Flow Graph
	CGI	Common Gateway Interface
	CGM	Computer Graphics Metafile
	CIDR	Classless Inter-Domain Routing
	CIM	Computer Integrated Manufacture
	CISC	Complex Instruction Set Computers
	CIX	Commercial Internet Exchange
	CLR	Common Language Runtime
	CMOS	Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor
	CMS	Content Management System
	CMYK	Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Key (Black)
	COBOL	Common Business Oriented Language
	COM	Component Object Model
	CORBA	Common Object Request Broker Architecture
	CPI	Clock Cycle Per Instruction
	CPU	Central Processing Unit
	CRC	Cyclic Redundancy Check
	CRM	Customer Relationship Management
	CROM	Control Read Only Memory
	CRT	Cathode Ray Tube
	CUI	Character User Interface
	DAC	Digital To Analog Converter
	DAO	Data Access Objects
	DARPANET	Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Network
	DAT	Digital Audio Tape
	DBA	Data Base Administrator
	DBMS	Data Base Management System
	DCA	Defence Communication Agency
	DCL	Data Control Language
	DCOM	Distributed Component Object Model
	DCP	Data Communication Processor
	DDL	Data Definition Language
	DDOS	Distributed Denial Of Service
	DDP	Distributed Data Processing
	DFD	Data Flow Diagram
	DFS	Distributed File System
	DHCP	Dynamic Host Control Protocol
	DHTML	Dynamics Hyper Text Markup Language
	DLC	Data Link Control
	DLL	Dynamic Link Library
	DMA	Direct Memory Access
	DML	Data Manipulation Language
	DMTF	Distributed Management Test Force
	DNA	Distributed Internet Architecture
	DNS	Domain Name System (Server)
	DOD	Department Of Defense
	DOM	Document Object Model
	DOS	Disk Operating System, Denial Of Service
	DPI	Dots Per Inch
	DRAM	Dynamic Random Access Memory
	DSL	Digital Subscriber Line
	DSN	Digital Subscriber Network
	DTD	Document Type Definition
	DVD	Digital Versatile Disc
	E	Electronic
	EAROM	Electrically Alterable Read Only Memory
	EBCDIC	Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code
	EDC	Electronic Digital Computer
	EDCDIC	Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code
	EEPROM	Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory
	EFS	Encrypted File System
	EJB	Enterprise Java Beans
	ENIAC	Electronics Numerical Integrator And Calculator
	EPROM	Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory
	EROM	Erasable Read Only Memory
	ERP	Enterprise Resource Planning
	EULA	End User License Agreement
	FAT	File Allocation Table
	FDD	Floppy Disk Drive
	FDDI	Fiber Distributed Data Interface
	FDMA	Frequency Division Multiple Access
	FIFO	First In First Out
	FLOPS	Floating Point Operations Per Second
	FO	Fiber Optics
	FORTRAN	Formula Translation
	FPS	Frames Per Second
	FRAM	Ferro Electric Random Access Memory
	FTP	File Transfer Protocol
	GB	Giga Bytes
	GIF	Graphic Interchange Format
	GIGO	Garbage In Garbage Out
	GML	General Markup Language
	GNU	Gnu`s Not Unix
	GPL	General Public License
	GUI	Graphical User Interface
	HDD	Hard Disk Drive
	HFS	Hierarchical File System
	HP	Hewlett Packard
	HPC	High Performance Computing
	HPFS	High Performance File System
	HSR	Horizontal Scan Rate
	HTML	Hyper Text Markup Language