CS101 (INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTING) ABBREVIATION
VERY USEFULL IN QUIZ, EXAMS AND
PAPERS
Effort by MUHAMMAD MUJAHID
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AI |
Artificial Intelligence |
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ALU |
Arithmetic Logic Unit |
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AMD |
Advanced Micro Devices |
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ANSI |
American National Standards
Institute |
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AP |
Access Point |
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ARM |
Advanced RISC Machine |
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ASCII |
American Standard Code For
Information Interchange |
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ASP |
Active Server Pages |
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ASPs |
Application Service Providers |
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BD |
Blu-Ray Disk |
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BOINC |
Berkeley’s Open Infrastructure For
Network Computing |
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Bps |
Bits Per Second |
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CAD |
Computer Aided Design |
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CASE |
Computer-Aided Software Engineering |
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CASL |
Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation |
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CD |
Compact Disk |
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CD-DA |
Compact Disk-Digital Audio |
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CDN |
Content Delivery Networks |
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CGI |
Common Gateway Interface |
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CISC |
Complex Instruction Set Computer |
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COBOL |
COmmon Business-Oriented Language |
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COPPA |
Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act |
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COTS |
Commercial Off-The-Shelf |
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CPU |
Central Processing Unit |
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CSMA/CA |
Carrier Sense, Multiple Access
With Collision Avoidance |
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CSMA/CD |
Carrier Sense, Multiple Access
With Collision Detection |
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CSS |
Cascading Style Sheets |
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CU |
Control Unit |
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DBMS |
Data Base Management System |
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DDoS |
Distributed DoS |
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DMA |
Direct Memory Access |
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DNS |
Domain Name System |
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DoS |
Daniel Of Service |
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DOS |
Disk Operating System |
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DRAM |
Dynamic Random Access
Memory |
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DSL |
Digital Subscriber Line |
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DVD |
Digital Versatile Disk |
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ECPA |
Electronic Communication Privacy Act |
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ENIAC |
Electronic Numerical Integrator And
Calculator |
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EPIC |
Electronic Privacy Information Center |
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FIFO |
First-In, First-Out |
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FORTRAN |
FORmula TRANslator |
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FTP |
File Transfer Protocol |
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GB |
Giga Bytes |
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GIF |
Graphic Interchange Format |
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GUI |
Graphical User Interface |
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HDTV |
High Definition Television |
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HIPPA |
Health Insurance Portability
and Accountability Act |
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HTML |
Hypertext Markup Language |
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HTTP |
Hyper Text Transfer Protocol |
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I/O |
Input/Output |
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IBM |
International Business Machines |
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ICANN |
Internet Corporation For Assigned Names And Numbers |
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IDE |
Integrated Development Environments |
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IEC |
International Electrotechnical Commission |
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IMAP |
Internet Mail Access Protocol |
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IoT |
Internet Of Things |
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IP |
Internet Protocol |
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IPR |
Intellectual Property Rights |
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ISP |
Internet Service Providers |
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IT |
Information Technology |
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JCL |
Job
Control Language |
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JPEG |
Joint Photographic Experts Group |
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JSP |
Java Server Pages |
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KB |
Kilo Bytes |
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Kbps |
Kilobits Per Seconds |
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LAN |
Local Area Network |
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LIFO |
Last-In, First-Out |
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LZW (encoding) |
Lempel-Ziv-Welsh (Encoding) |
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MAN |
Metropolitan Area Network |
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MB |
Mega Bytes |
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Mbps |
Million Bits Per Seconds |
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MIDI |
Musical Instrument Digital Interface |
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MIME |
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions |
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ML (AI) |
Machine Learning |
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Modem |
Modulator-Demodulator |
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MPEG |
Motion Picture Experts Group |
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NNTP |
Network News Transfer Protocol |
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OOP |
Object Oriented Programming |
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OS |
Operating System |
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OSI |
Open System Interconnection |
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P2P |
Peer-To-Peer |
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PAN |
Personal Area Network |
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PC |
Personal Computer |
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PHP |
Personal Home Page[Old];
Hypertext Preprocessor[New] |
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POP3 |
Post Office Protocol Version 3 |
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RAM |
Random Access Memory |
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RGB |
Red Green Blue |
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RISC |
Reduced Instruction Set Computer |
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ROM |
Read Only Memory |
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RUP |
Rational Unified Process |
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SD (card) |
Secure Digital |
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SDHC |
SD
High Capacity |
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SDRAM |
Synchronous Dynamic RAM |
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SDXC |
SD Extendable Capacity |
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SGML |
Standard Generalized Markup Language |
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SMTP |
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol |
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SQA |
Software Quality Assurance |
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SQL |
Structured Query Language |
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SSH |
Secure Shell |
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SSL |
Secure Sockets Layer |
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TB |
Tera Byte |
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TCP |
Transmission Control Protocol |
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TIFF |
Tagged Image File Format |
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TLD |
Top
Level Domain |
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UDP |
User Datagram Protocol |
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UI |
User Interface |
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URL |
Universal Resource Locator |
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USB |
Universal Serial Bus |
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UTF-8 |
Unicode Transformation Format – 8-Bit |
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VoIP |
Voice Over Internet Protocol |
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VR |
Virtual Reality |
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WAN |
Wide Area Network |
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www |
World Wide Web |
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XML |
eXtensible Markup Language |
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ZB |
Zetta Bytes |
