Full Forms for Information Technology Related Terms:
COMPUTER - Common Operating Machine Particularly Used for Trade, Education, and Research
SMS - System Management Server
ENIAC - Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator
PIN - Personal Identification Number
ISP - Internet Service Provider
IT - Information Technology
WWW - World Wide Web (sometimes call W3)
WWW - World Wide Wait - slang
VIP - Vines Internet Protocol
ASP - Active Server Page
ASP - Application Service Provider
3D - Three Dimensional
INS - InterNet communication Settings
CAD - Computer Aided Design
ECS - Enhanced Chip Set
FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions (files often found on BBS and Internet)
DOS - Disk Operating System
POP - Power On Password
POP - Post Office Protocol (how PCs get email from internet)
POP - Point Of Presence (internet and WWW terminology for location of server)
STP - Shielded Twisted Pair
FORTRAN - FORmula TRANslation language (programming language)
MODEM - MODulate / DEModulate
NCC - Network Control Center
IC - Integrated Circuit
IP - Internet Protocol
UID - User IDentification (internet- intranet- and server login accesses)
IRDA - Infrared Data Association
CLASS - Compiled java program- often used as class extension
NIC - Network Interface Card
PC - Personal Computer
RAS - Remote Access Server / Service
CD-ROM - Compact Disk - Read Only Memory
PPP - Point to Point Protocol
ARPANET - Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (the beginning of the internet)
EEPROM - Electronic Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory
MPEG - Motion Picture Experts Group (file extension MPG)
PVC - Permanent Virtual Circuits
ASAP - Application Assessment And Planning package (Lotus migration application)
CPU - Central Processing Unit
SSI - Server Side Includes (web technology that allows for dynamic data exchange in web pages)
CMYK - Cyan- Magenta- Yellow- blacK
COBOL - Common Business Oriented Language (programming language)
ID - Internal Device
FCI - Flux Changes per Inch (drive tech terminology)
MIS - Management Information Systems
MIS - Multimedia Information Sources
APL - Automatic Programming Language
DTP - Desk-Top Publishing
SMTP - Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
IPC - Inter-Processes Communications
PDC - Primary Domain Controller
SFC - System File Checker (command line program found with Windows XP)
HD - Hard Disk 2 High Density (type of disk format)
PCI - Personal Computer Interface
PCI - Peripheral Component Interconnect
CPS - Clusters Per Sector (depends on the OS- AND the size of the disk partition)
CPS - Characters Per Second
DBMS - DataBase Management System
CHAT - Conversational Hypertext Access Technology (""talking"" in real time over the internet)"
DVD - Digital Video Disk
DOC - DOCument (file format extension used by word processors such as MS Word)
DOC - A word processing DOCument file extension Often used by MS Word
CCS - Common Command Set (instructions for SCSI interface)
LCD - Liquid Crystal Display (often found on laptops)
POS - Point Of Sale (the scanners you see in supermarkets)
TM - Text Message
TM - Test Mode (modem diagnostics)
URL - Uniform Resource Locator
IBM - International Business Machines
EMS - Expanded Memory Specification (LIM Lotus / Intel / Microsoft)
CDR - A Graphics File extension- often used by Corel Draw
RDO - Remote Data Objects
VBA - Visual Basic for Applications (programming language bundled with MS Office- can include ActiveX- not a full VB compiler- but can edit macros and commands)
AT - Asynchronous Transmission
AT - Advanced Technology
FTP - File Transfer Protocol
GPF - General Protection Fault (A window error message that occurs when a program crashes)
SSA - Serial Storage Architecture (another communications port setup (like SCSI) that has fast data transfer but requires high demands of DMA channels)
GP - General Purpose
VGA - Video Graphics Adapter
ISM - Information Services Manager
SRC - Sample Rate Conversion
PDP - Plasma Display Panel (laptops)
ODBC - Open DataBase Connectivity (2 Components) (Microsofts shared data connections)
ICA - Independent Computing Architecture
EPROM - Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory (re-programmable ROM chips)
DD - Double Density (type of disk format - more than single density- less than High Density)
SIT - Stuff-It (Compressed File extension for Macintosh computers)
EULA - End User License Agreement
HP - Hewlett Packard
ADC - Advanced Data Connector (database caching w/IIS server)
DB - DataBase
DB - decibel
ED - External Device
W3C - World Wide Web Consortium
MCSE - Microsoft Certified System Engineer
