As we all know, "Information Technology" is also pronounced as "I.T." It refers to anything which is related to computing technology, for instance hardware, networking, software, the Internet, several other computer related terms or even the people who work with these technologies.
All most all the companies now have its IT departments for managing the computers related tasks, networking, and many other technical areas of their businesses. Information Technology (IT) jobs include various departments, few popular of them are: computer programming, Web development, network administration, technical support, computer engineering, and many more related occupations.
Since we live in the 'information age,' IT (information technology) has become a part of our everyday lives. But we are still not completely familiar with all the terms of Information Technology. So, today in this post I am going to share more than 100 important and useful Full Forms related to information technology.
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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
RDBMS - Relational Data Base Management System
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
BOSS - Business Organizer Scheduling System (one of the original hand-held organizers)
HCL - Hardware Compatibility List (what hardware works with Windows 95- a text file)
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
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