Information Technology Acronyms
July 17, 2018
The computer industry seems to have a disproportionate number of acronyms and to the lay person it must sound like we are talking a foreign language.
To help we have listed some of the common ones below:
| AD | Administrative Domain |
| AMOLED | Active-Matrix Organis Light-Emitting Diode |
| API | Application Programming Interface |
| CERT | Computer Emergency Response Team |
| DHCP | Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol |
| DoS | Denial of Service |
| HDD | Hard Disk Drive |
| HDMI | High-Definition Multimedia Interface |
| GUI | Graphical User Interface |
| LAN | Local Area Network |
| NAS | Network-Attached Storage |
| OS | Operating System |
| PCI | Peripheral Component Interconnect |
| PCIe | PCI Express |
| PoE | Power over Ethernet |
| PPP | Point-to-Point Protocol |
| PPPoE | PPP over Ethernet |
| RAID | Redundant Array of Independent Disks |
| SATA | Serial ATA |
| SSD | Solid State Drive |
| TCP/IP | Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol |
| VoIP | Voice over Internet Protocol |
| WLAN | Wireless Local Area Network |
If you would like further punishment, follow this link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_computing_and_IT_abbreviations
