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Ø  ACE        Access Control Entry

Ø  ACL        Access Control List

Ø  ADO       Active Data Objects

Ø  ADSL      Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line

Ø  AGP       Accelerated Graphics Port

Ø  AI            Artificial Intelligence

Ø  ALGOL  Algorithmic Language

Ø  ALU        Arithmetic Logic Unit

Ø  ANSI      American National Standards Institute

Ø  AOL        America Online

Ø  API         Application Program Interface

Ø  APIPA   Automatic Private Internet Protocol Addressing

Ø  APT        Automatically Programmed Tooling

Ø  ARD       Address Resolution Protocol

Ø  ARP        Address Resolution Protocol

Ø  ARPA     Advanced Research Projects Agency

Ø  ARPANET             Advanced Research Projects Agency Network

Ø  ASCII     American Standard Code For Information Interchange

Ø  ASF        Advanced Streaming Format

Ø  ASM      Association For Systems Management

Ø  ASP        Active Server Pages

Ø  ATAPI    Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface

Ø  ATM      Asynchronous Transfer Mode

Ø  AUI        Attachment Unit Interface

Ø  AVI         Audio Video Interleave

Ø  B2B        Business To Business

Ø  B2C        Business To Commerce

Ø  BASIC    Beginner`s All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code

Ø  BCD        Binary Coded Decimal

Ø  BDPS     Business Data Processing Systems

Ø  BHTML Broadcast Hyper Text Markup Language

Ø  BIOS      Basic Input Output System

Ø  BIU         Bus Interface Unit

Ø  BLOG     Binary Logic Object

Ø  BMP      Bitmap

Ø  BPS        Bytes Per Seconds

Ø  BS           Bulletin Board Service

Ø  C DAC    Centre For Development Of Advanced Computing

Ø  CAD       Computer Aided Design

Ø  CADD    Computer Added Drafting And Design

Ø  CAI         Computer Aided Instructuion

Ø  CAM      Computer Aided Manufacturing

Ø  CAR        Control Address Register

Ø  CASE      Computer Aided Software Engineering

Ø  CCIS       Common Channel Interoffice Signaling

Ø  CCNA    Cisco Certified Network Associate

Ø  CD          Compact Disc

Ø  CD RW  Compact Disc Re-Writable

Ø  CD WORM          Compact Disc- Write Once Read Many

Ø  CDMA   Code Division Multiple Access

Ø  CDONTS               Collabaration On Data Objects For Windows Nt Server

Ø  CDROM                Compact Disc- Read Only Memory

Ø  CFG        Control Flow Graph

Ø  CGI         Common Gateway Interface

Ø  CGM      Computer Graphics Metafile

Ø  CIDR      Classless Inter-Domain Routing

Ø  CIM        Computer Integrated Manufacture

Ø  CISC       Complex Instruction Set Computers

Ø  CIX         Commercial Internet Exchange

Ø  CLR         Common Language Runtime

Ø  CMOS   Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor

Ø  CMS       Content Management System

Ø  CMYK    Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Key (Black)

Ø  COBOL  Common Business Oriented Language

Ø  COM      Component Object Model

Ø  CORBA  Common Object Request Broker Architecture

Ø  CPI         Clock Cycle Per Instruction

Ø  CPU       Central Processing Unit

Ø  CRC        Cyclic Redundancy Check

Ø  CRM      Customer Relationship Management

Ø  CROM   Control Read Only Memory

Ø  CRT        Cathode Ray Tube

Ø  CUI         Character User Interface

Ø  DAC       Digital To Analog Converter

Ø  DAO       Data Access Objects

Ø  DARPANET          Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Network

Ø  DAT        Digital Audio Tape

Ø  DBA       Data Base Administrator

Ø  DBMS    Data Base Management System

Ø  DCA       Defence Communication Agency

Ø  DCL        Data Control Language

Ø  DCOM   Distributed Component Object Model

Ø  DCP        Data Communication Processor

Ø  DDL        Data Definition Language

Ø  DDOS    Distributed Denial Of Service

Ø  DDP       Distributed Data Processing

Ø  DFD        Data Flow Diagram

Ø  DFS        Distributed File System

Ø  DHCP    Dynamic Host Control Protocol

Ø  DHTML Dynamics Hyper Text Markup Language

Ø  DLC        Data Link Control

Ø  DLL         Dynamic Link Library

Ø  DMA      Direct Memory Access

Ø  DML       Data Manipulation Language

Ø  DMTF    Distributed Management Test Force

Ø  DNA       Distributed Internet Architecture

Ø  DNS       Domain Name System (Server)

Ø  DOD       Department Of Defense

Ø  DOM     Document Object Model

Ø  DOS       Disk Operating System, Denial Of Service

Ø  DPI         Dots Per Inch

Ø  DRAM   Dynamic Random Access Memory

Ø  DSL         Digital Subscriber Line

Ø  DSN       Digital Subscriber Network

Ø  DTD        Document Type Definition

Ø  DVD       Digital Versatile Disc

Ø  E              Electronic

Ø  EAROM                Electrically Alterable Read Only Memory

Ø  EBCDIC Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code

Ø  EDC        Electronic Digital Computer

Ø  EDCDIC Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code

Ø  EEPROM              Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory

Ø  EFS         Encrypted File System

Ø  EJB         Enterprise Java Beans

Ø  ENIAC   Electronics Numerical Integrator And Calculator

Ø  EPROM Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory

Ø  EROM   Erasable Read Only Memory

Ø  ERP        Enterprise Resource Planning

Ø  EULA     End User License Agreement

Ø  FAT        File Allocation Table

Ø  FDD        Floppy Disk Drive

Ø  FDDI      Fiber Distributed Data Interface

Ø  FDMA   Frequency Division Multiple Access

Ø  FIFO       First In First Out

Ø  FLOPS   Floating Point Operations Per Second

Ø  FO          Fiber Optics

Ø  FORTRAN            Formula Translation

Ø  FPS         Frames Per Second

Ø  FRAM    Ferro Electric Random Access Memory

Ø  FTP         File Transfer Protocol

Ø  GB          Giga Bytes

Ø  GIF         Graphic Interchange Format

Ø  GIGO     Garbage In Garbage Out

Ø  GML      General Markup Language

Ø  GNU      Gnu`s Not Unix

Ø  GPL        General Public License

Ø  GUI        Graphical User Interface

Ø  HDD       Hard Disk Drive

Ø  HFS        Hierarchical File System

Ø  HP          Hewlett Packard

Ø  HPC       High Performance Computing

Ø  HPFS     High Performance File System

Ø  HSR        Horizontal Scan Rate

Ø  HTML    Hyper Text Markup Language

Ø  HTTP     Hyper Text Transfer Protocol

Ø  HW        Hardware

Ø  IO           Input Output

Ø  IBM        International Business Machines

Ø  IC            Integrated Circuit

Ø  ICMP     Internet Control Message Protocol

Ø  ICS          Reduce Instruction Set Computer

Ø  ICT          Information And Communication Technology

Ø  IDE         Integrated Development Environment

Ø  IE            Internet Explorer

Ø  IGMP    Internet Group Management Protocol

Ø  IIS           Internet Information Service

Ø  IL             Intermediate Language

Ø  IOP         Input-Output Processor

Ø  IP            Internet Protocol

Ø  IPX         Internetworked Packet Exchange

Ø  IRAM     Integration Ram

Ø  IRC         Internet Relay Chat

Ø  IRDA      Infrared Data Association

Ø  IRQ         Interrupt Request

Ø  ISAPI     Internet Server Application Program Interface

Ø  ISDN      Integrated Services Digital Network

Ø  ISO         International Standard Organization

Ø  ISP          Internet Service Provider

Ø  ISR          Interrupt Service Routine

Ø  IT            Information Technology

Ø  ITPL        Information Technology Park Limited (India)

Ø  JCL          Job Control Language

Ø  JDBC      Java Data Base Connectivity

Ø  JHTML  Java Within Hyper Text Markup Language

Ø  JPEG      Joint Photographic Experts Group

Ø  JSP         Java Server Pages

Ø  KB           Kilo Bytes

Ø  KBPS      Kilo Bytes Per Second

Ø  L2TP       Layer Two Tunneling Protocol

Ø  LAN        Local Area Network

Ø  LCD        Liquid Crystal Display

Ø  LDAP     Light Weight Directory Access Control

Ø  LIFO       Last In First Out

Ø  LIPS        Logical Interfaces Per Second

Ø  LOC        Lines Of Code

Ø  LSI          Large Scale Integration

Ø  LSP         Layered Service Provider

Ø  MAC      Media Access Control

Ø  MAN     Metropolitan Area Network

Ø  MAU     Multi-Station Access Unit

Ø  MB         Mega Bytes

Ø  MBONE                Multicast Backbone

Ø  MBPS    Mega Bytes Per Second

Ø  MBR      Master Boot Record

Ø  MCP      Microsoft Certified Professional

Ø  MCS       Multicast Server

Ø  MCSA    Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator

Ø  MCSD    Microsoft Certified Solution Developer

Ø  MCSE    Microsoft Certified System Engineer

Ø  MDE      Microsoft Access Database

Ø  MDI       Multiple Document Interface

Ø  MDS      Microcomputer Development System

Ø  MFC       Microsoft Foundation Classes

Ø  MFT       Master File Table

Ø  MG        Mega Bytes

Ø  MICR     Magnetic-Ink Characters Recognition

Ø  MIDI      Musical Instrument Digital Interface

Ø  MIMD   Multiple Instruction Multiple Data

Ø  MIME    Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions

Ø  MIPS     Millions Of Instructions Per Second

Ø  MISD     Multiple Instruction Single Data

Ø  MODEM               Modulator And Demodulator

Ø  MP3       Motion Pictures Experts Group Layer 3

Ø  MPEG   Motion Pictures Experts Group

Ø  MS         Microsoft

Ø  MSDN   Microsoft Developer Network

Ø  MSIIS    Microsoft Internet Information Server

Ø  MSIL      Microsoft Intermediate Language

Ø  MSMQ  Microsoft Message Queue

Ø  MSN      Microsoft Network

Ø  MSRAP Microsoft Remote Administration Protocol

Ø  MSRPC Microsoft Remote Procedure Call

Ø  MTS       Microsoft Transaction Server

Ø  MTU      Maximum Transmission Unit

Ø  MUDS   Multi-User Dungeons

Ø  NAS       Network Attached Storage

Ø  NASSCOM           National Association Of Software & Service Companies

Ø  NCP       Network Control Protocol

Ø  NDIS      Network Driver Interface Specification

Ø  NDRO    Nondestructive Read Out

Ø  NETBEUI              Netbios Enhanced User Interface

Ø  NIC         National Informatics Centre,

Ø  NIIT        National Institute Of Information Technology

Ø  NNTP    Network News Transfer Protocol

Ø  NOW     Network Of Workstations

Ø  NSFNET                National Science Foundation Network

Ø  NT (WINDOWS)               New Technology

Ø  NTFS      New Technology File System

Ø  NTP        Network Time Protocol

Ø  OCP       Oracle Certified Professional

Ø  OCR       Optical Character Readers

Ø  ODBC    Open Data Base Connectivity

Ø  OLE        Object Linking And Embedding

Ø  OMR      Optical Mark Reader

Ø  ONE       Open Network Architecture

Ø  OOA      Object Orient Analysis

Ø  OOAD   Object Oriented Analysis And Design

Ø  OOP       Object Oriented Programming

Ø  OOPS    Object Oriented Programming System

Ø  OPEN GL              Open Graphics Library

Ø  OS          Operating System

Ø  OSI         Open System Interconnection

Ø  PC           Personal Computer

Ø  PCI         Peripheral Component Interconnect

Ø  PCMCIA               Personal Computer Memory Card International Association

Ø  PDA       Personal Digital Assistant

Ø  PDF        Portable Document Format

Ø  PDL        Page Description Language

Ø  PDU       Protocol Data Unit

Ø  PHP       Php Hypertext Processor

Ø  PIC         Programming Interrupt Control

Ø  PILOT    Programmed Inquiry Learning Or Teaching

Ø  PLA        Programmable Logic Array

Ø  PLC         Programmable Logic Controller

Ø  PNG       Portable Network Graphics

Ø  PNP       Plug And Play

Ø  POP       Post Office Protocol

Ø  POST     Power On Self Test

Ø  PPP        Peer To Peer Protocol

Ø  PPTP      Point To Point Tunneling Protocol

Ø  PROM   Programmable Read Only Memory

Ø  PS           Post Script

Ø  PSI          Performance Systems International

Ø  PSN        Processor Serial Number

Ø  PSW      Program Status Word

Ø  QOS       Quality Of Service

Ø  R DAT    Rotating Digital Audio Tape

Ø  RADSL   Rate-Adaptive Digital Subscribes Line

Ø  RAID      Redundant Array Of Independent Disks

Ø  RAM      Random Access Memory

Ø  RAMDAC             Random Access Memory Digital To Analog Converter

Ø  RAS        Remote Access Network

Ø  RD RAM               Rambus Dynamic Random Access Memory

Ø  RDBMS Relational Data Base Management System

Ø  RDO       Remote Data Objects

Ø  RDP        Remote Desktop Protocol

Ø  RFC        Request For Comments

Ø  RGB       Red Green Blue

Ø  RICS       Reduced Instruction Set Computer

Ø  RIP         Raster Image Processor

Ø  RISC       Reduced Instruction Set Computer

Ø  ROM      Read Only Memory

Ø  RPC        Remote Procedure Call

Ø  RTC        Real Time Clock

Ø  RTF         Rich Text Format

Ø  RTOS     Real Time Operating System

Ø  S DAT    Stationary Digital Audio Tape

Ø  SACK     Selective Acknowledgements

Ø  SAM      Security Access Manager

Ø  SAP        Service Access Point, Systems Applications Products

Ø  SCMP    Software Configuration Management Plan

Ø  SCSI       Small Computers Systems Interface

Ø  SD RAM                Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory

Ø  SDD        Software Design Description

Ø  SDK        Software Development Kit

Ø  SDL         Storage Definition Language

Ø  SDN       Integrated Service Digital Network

Ø  SDRAM Static Dynamic Random Access Memory

Ø  SDSL      Symmetric Digital Subscribes Line

Ø  SG RAM               Synchronous Graphics Random Access Memory

Ø  SGML    Standard Generalized Markup Language

Ø  SIM        Subscriber Identification Module

Ø  SIMD     Single Instruction Multiple Data

Ø  SISD       Single Instruction Single Data

Ø  SIU         Serial Interface Unit

Ø  SMP       Symmetric Multi-Process

Ø  SMS       Short Message Service

Ø  SMTP    Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

Ø  SNA       System Network Architecture

Ø  SNAP     Sub Network Access Protocol

Ø  SNMP   Simple Network Management Protocol

Ø  SNOBOL               String Oriented Symbolic Language

Ø  SOAP     Simple Object Access Protocol

Ø  SPX        Sequenced Packet Exchange

Ø  SQA       Statistical Quality Assurance

Ø  SQL        Structured Query Language

Ø  SRAM    Static Random Access Memory

Ø  SRS         Software Requirements Specification

Ø  STP         Shielded Twisted Pair

Ø  SVVP     Software Verification And Validation Plan

Ø  SW         Software

Ø  TAPI       Telephony Application Program Interface

Ø  TB           Tera Bytes

Ø  TCP        Transmission Control Protocol

Ø  TCP-IP   Transmission Control Protocol - Internet Protocol

Ø  TDI         Transport Data Interface

Ø  TDMA   Time Division Multiple Access

Ø  TPM       Transactions Processing Monitor

Ø  TSR         Terminate And Stay Residents

Ø  UDD       User Datagram Protocol

Ø  UDP       User Datagram Protocol

Ø  UI           User Interface

Ø  UML      Unified Modelling Language

Ø  UNC       Universal Naming Convention

Ø  UNIX     Uniplexed Information And Computer Systems

Ø  URL        Uniform Resource Locator

Ø  USB        Universal Serial Bus

Ø  USRT     Universal Synchronous Receiver Transmitted

Ø  UTP        Unshielded Twisted Pair

Ø  VAN       Virtual Area Network

Ø  VAST     Very Small Aperture Terminal

Ø  VB          Visual Basic

Ø  VC++     Visual C++

Ø  VCD       Video Compact Disc

Ø  VDL        View Definition Language

Ø  VGA       Video Graphics Array

Ø  VHS       Video Home System

Ø  VLIW     Very Long Instruction Words

Ø  VLSI       Very Large Scale Integrated Circuits

Ø  VPN       Virtual Private Network

Ø  VRAM   Video Random Access Memory

Ø  VRML    Virtual Reality Modelling Language

Ø  VS           Visual Studio

Ø  VSNL     Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited

Ø  VVR       Software Validation And Validation Report

Ø  VXD       Virtual Device Driver

Ø  W3C      World Wide Web Consortium

Ø  WAIS     Wide Area Information Servers

Ø  WAN     Wide Area Network

Ø  WAP      Wireless Application Protocol

Ø  WBEM  Web-Base Enterprise Management

Ø  WDM    Wave Division Multiplexing

Ø  WHQL   Windows Hardware Quality Lab

Ø  WINDOWS ME  Windows Millennium Edition

Ø  WINDOWS NT   Windows New Technology

Ø  WINDOWS XP   Windows Experienced

Ø  WINS    Windows Internet Name Service

Ø  WMI      Windows Management Instrumentation

Ø  WML     Wireless Markup Language

Ø  WORM Write Once Read Many

Ø  WSH      Windows Script Host

Ø  WWW  World Wide Web

Ø  WYSIWYG          What You See Is What You Get

Ø  XHTML Extensible Hyper Text Markup Language

Ø  XML       Extensible Markup Language

Ø  XSL         Extensible Style Sheet Langauge

Ø  Y2K        Year 2000

Ø  ZIF          Zero Insertion Force