Technical abbreviations for a newbie

Some technical abbreviations for a newbie:

A

ACL—Access Control List
ADO—ActiveX Data Objects
AES—Advanced Encryption Standard
AI—Artificial Intelligence
Ajax—Asynchronous JavaScript and XML
AMD—Advanced Micro Devices
ANSI—American National Standards Institute
API—Application Programming Interface
ARIN—American Registry for Internet Numbers
ARPANET—Advanced Research Projects Agency Network
ASCII—American Standard Code for Information Interchange
ASP—Active Server Pages
AV—Antivirus
ADDR-Address

B

B2B—Business-to-Business
B2C—Business-to-Consumer
B2E- Business-to-Employee
Bash—Bourne-again shell
BGP—Border Gateway Protocol
BIOS—Basic Input Output System
BSD—Berkeley Software Distribution
BSoD—Blue Screen of Death
BYOD—Bring Your Own Device

C

CMD - Command
CAD—Computer-Aided Design
CAPTCHA—Completely Automated Public Turing Test to tell Computers and Humans Apart
CERT—Computer Emergency Response Team
CGI—Common Gateway Interface
CIDR—Classless Inter-Domain Routing
CLI—Command Line Interface
COM—Component Object Model or communication
CSP—Cloud Service Provider
CSRF—Cross-Site Request Forgery
CSS—Cascading Style Sheets
CSS—Cross-Site Scripting
CSV—Comma-Separated Values

D

DB—Database
DDoS—Distributed Denial of Service
DoS – Denial of Service
DES—Data Encryption Standard
DHCP—Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
DLL—Dynamic Link Library
DNS—Domain Name System
DND – Defence In Depth

E

E-mail—Electronic mail
EOD—End of Day
EOF—End of File
EOL—End of Line
eSATA—external SATA
EXT—EXTended file system
EXE – Executable

F

FAT—File Allocation Table
fsck—File System Check
FTP—File Transfer Protocol
FYI—For Your Information

G

Gb—Gigabit
GB—Gigabyte
GDB—GNU Debugger
GIS—Geographic Information System
GPS: Global Positioning System
GUI—Graphical User Interface
GPU—Graphics Processing Unit

H

HTML—Hypertext Markup Language
HTTP—Hypertext Transfer Protocol
HTTPd—Hypertext Transport Protocol Daemon
HTTPS—HTTP Secure

I

ICMP—Internet Control Message Protocol
IDE—Integrated Development Environment
IoT—Internet of Things
IP—Internet Protocol
IPsec—Internet Protocol security
IPS—Intrusion Prevention System
IDS—Intrusion Detection System
IPv4—Internet Protocol version 4
IPv6—Internet Protocol version 6
IRC—Internet Relay Chat
ISO—International Organization for Standardization
ISP—Internet Service Provider

J

JDBC—Java Database Connectivity
JDK—Java Development Kit
JPEG—Joint Photographic Experts Group
JRE—Java Runtime Environment
JSON—JavaScript Object Notation
JTAG—Joint Test Action Group

K

Kb—Kilobit
KB—Kilobyte
KVM—Keyboard, Video, Mouse

L

LAMP—Linux Apache MySQL PHP
LAN—Local Area Network
LDAP—Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
LFS—Linux From Scratch
LSB—Linux Standard Base

M

MAC—Media Access Control
MBR—Master Boot Record
MOTD—Message Of The Day

N

NAT—Network Address Translation
NetBIOS—Network Basic Input/Output System
NIC—Network Interface Controller
NT—New Technology
NTFS—NT Filesystem
NTLM—NT Lan Manager
NTP—Network Time Protocol

O

OOP—Object-Oriented Programming
OS—Operating System
OSI—Open Systems Interconnection
OSPF—Open Shortest Path First

P

P2P—Peer-To-Peer
PaaS—Platform as a Service
PCI—Peripheral Component Interconnect
PERL—Practical Extraction and Reporting Language
PID—Process ID
PKI—Public Key Infrastructure
PnP—Plug-and-Play
POP3—Post Office Protocol v3
PPP—Point-to-Point Protocol

Q

QoS—Quality of Service
QOTD—Quote of the Day
q - quit

R

RAM—Random Access Memory
RDP— Remote Desktop Protocol
RFC—Request For Comments
RHEL—Red Hat Enterprise Linux
RIP—Routing Information Protocol

S

SaaS—Software as a Service
SAM— Security Account Manager
SAS—Serial attached SCSI
SCADA—Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition
SEO—Search Engine Optimization
SFTP—Secure FTP
SFTP—Simple File Transfer Protocol
SFTP—SSH File Transfer Protocol
SMB—Server Message Block
SMTP—Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
SNMP—Simple Network Management Protocol
SNTP—Simple Network Time Protocol
SOAP—Simple Object Access Protocol
SOHO—Small Office/Home Office
SSH—Secure Shell
SSL—Secure Socket Layer
su—superuser

T

TCP—Transmission Control Protocol
TCP/IP—Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
TLS—Transport Layer Security
TTL—Time To Live

U

UAC—User Account Control
UI—User Interface
UML—Unified Modeling Language
URI—Uniform Resource Identifier
URL—Uniform Resource Locator
USB—Universal Serial Bus
usr—user

V

var—variable
VB—Visual Basic
VBA—Visual Basic for Applications
VHD — Virtual Hard Disk
VFS—Virtual File System
VM—Virtual Machine
VoIP—Voice over Internet Protocol
VPN—Virtual Private Network
VNC—Virtual Network Computing

W

W3C—World Wide Web Consortium
WAN—Wide Area Network
WiFi—Wireless Fidelity
WORA—Write once, run anywhere
WPA2—Wi-Fi Protected Access 2

X

XSS—Cross-Site Scripting
XP—Cross-Platform
XML—eXtensible Markup Language

Y

YACC—Yet Another Compiler Compiler
YaST—Yet another Setup Tool

Z

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