Computers Knowledge is gaining importance in the Bank Exams of IBPS or SBI and Computer Abbreviation is one of the key components. It’s very essential to know the basic Computer Abbreviations that are helpful in answering direct questions in exams.
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Computer Abbreviations is the short form of the commonly used terms of computer. Knowing these short from of Computers and their full form is very essential to understand them.
Below is the alphabet wise list of commonly used computer abbreviations:
S.No. Abbreviations Full-Form
1
ACID
Atomicity Consistency Isolation Durability
2
ACK
Acknowledge
3
ACL
Access Control List
4
AGP
Advanced Graphics Port
5
AI
Artificial Intelligence
6
ALU
Arithmetic Logic Unit
7
AMD
Advanced Micro Devices
8
API
Application Program Interface
9
ARP
Address Resolution Protocol
10
ARPANET
Advanced Research Projects Agency Network
11
ARQ
Automatic Repeat Request
12
ASCII
American Standard Code for Information Interchange
13
ASP
Active Server Pages
14
ATM
Asynchronous Transfer Mode
15
AVI
Audio Video Interleave
16
AWS
Amazon Web Services
S.No. Abbreviations Full-Form
1
BASIC
Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
2
BCC
Blind Carbon Copy
3
BIOS
Basic Input Output System
4
BIPS
Billion Instruction Per Second
5
Blob
Binary large Object
6
BIU
Bus Interface Unit
7
BMP
Bitmap
S.No. Abbreviations Full-Form
1
CAD
Computer-Aided Design
2
CAPTCHA
Completely Automated Public Turing Test to tell Computers and Humans Apart
3
CC
Carbon Copy
4
CD
Compact Disk
5
CDMA
Code Division Multiple Access
6
CDN
Content Delivery Network
7
CD-R
Compact Disk – Recordable
8
CD-ROM
Compact Disk Read Only Memory
9
CD-RW
Compact Disk Rewritable
10
CGI
Common Gateway Interface
11
CGI-BIN
Common Gateway Interface – Binary (programming for Web forms)
12
CISC
Complex Instructions Set Computers
13
CLI
Command Line Interface
14
CLR
Common Language Runtime
15
COBOL
Common Business-Oriented Language
16
COM
Component Object Model
17
CORBA
Common Object Request Broker Architecture
18
CPU
Central Processing Unit
19
CRC
Cyclic Redundancy Check
20
CRT
Cathode Ray Tube
21
CRUD
Create, Read, Update and Delete
22
CSMA/CD
Carrier sense multiple access with collision detection
23
CSS
Cascading Style Sheets
S.No. Abbreviations Full-Form
1
DAC
Digital-To-Analog Converter
2
DAP
Directory Access Protocol
3
DAT
Digital Audio Tape
4
DB
Database
5
DBA
Database Administrator
6
DBMS
Database Management System
7
DCOM
Distributed Component Object Model
8
DDL
Data Definition Language
9
DES
Data Encryption Standard
10
DFD
Data Flow Diagram
11
DHCP
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
12
DHTML
Dynamic Hypertext Markup Language
13
DIVX
Digital Video Express
14
DLL
Dynamic Link Library
15
DMI
Direct Media Interface
16
DML
Data Manipulation Language
17
DNS
Domain Name System
18
DOM
Document Object Model
19
DOS
Disk Operating System
20
DPI
Dots Per Inch
21
DRAM
Dynamic Random-Access Memory
22
DSA
Digital Signature Algorithm
23
DSN
Database Source Name
24
DSP
Digital Signal Processor
25
DTD
Document Type Definition
26
DVD
Digital Versatile Disc
27
DVI
Digital Visual Interface
28
DVR
Digital Video Recorder
S.No. Abbreviations Full-Form
1
EAI
Enterprise Application Integration
2
EDI
Electronic Data Interchange
3
EEPROM
Electronically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
4
EFS
Encrypting File System
5
E-Mail
Electronic mail
6
EOF
End of File
7
EOL
End of Line
8
EOM
End Of Message
9
ERM
Entity-Relationship Model
10
ESB
Enterprise service bus
11
ESI
Electronically Stored Information
12
ETL
Extract, Transform, Load
13
ETA
Estimated Time of Arrival
14
EXT
EXTended file system
S. No. Abbreviations Full-Form
1
FAT
File Allocation Table
2
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
3
FCB
File Control Block
4
FDD
Frequency-Division Duplexing / Floppy Disk Drive
5
FDDI
Fiber Distributed Data Interface
6
FDM
Frequency-Division Multiplexing
7
FDMA
Frequency-Division Multiple Access
8
FIFO
First In First Out
9
FLOPS
FLoating-Point Operations Per Second
10
FQDN
Fully Qualified Domain Name
11
FTP
File Transfer Protocol
12
FYI
For Your Information
S. No. Abbreviations Full-Form
1
Gb
Gigabit
2
GB
Gigabyte
3
GIF
Graphics Interchange Format
4
GIS
Geographic Information System
5
GML
Geography Markup Language
6
GPU
Graphics Processing Unit
7
GSM
Global System for Mobile Communications
8
GUI
Graphical User Interface
9
GUID
Globally Unique IDentifier
S.No. Abbreviations Full-Form
1
HA
High Availability
2
HD
High Density
3
HDD
Hard Disk Drive
4
HDMI
High-Definition Multimedia Interface
5
HF
High Frequency
6
HFS
Hierarchical File System
7
HPFS
High-Performance File System
8
HSDPA
High-Speed Downlink Packet Access
9
HTML
Hypertext Markup Language
10
HTTP
Hypertext Transfer Protocol
11
HTTPS
HTTP Secure
S.No. Abbreviations Full-Form
1
I18N
Internationalization
2
IaaS
Infrastructure as a Service
3
IBM
International Business Machines
4
IC
Integrated Circuit
5
ICMP
Internet Control Message Protocol
6
ICP
Internet Cache Protocol
7
IDE
Integrated Development Environment
8
IE
Internet Explorer
9
IEEE
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
10
IGMP
Internet Group Management Protocol
11
IGRP
Interior Gateway Routing Protocol
12
IIOP
Internet Inter-Orb Protocol
13
IIS
Internet Information Services
14
IL
Intermediate Language
15
IM
Instant Messaging
16
IMAP
Internet Message Access Protocol
17
IoT
Internet of Things
18
IP
Internet Protocol
19
IPC
Inter-Process Communication
20
IPP
Internet Printing Protocol
21
IPTv
Internet Protocol Television
22
IPv4
Internet Protocol version 4
23
IPv6
Internet Protocol version 6
24
ISCSI
Internet Small Computer System Interface
25
ISDN
Integrated Services Digital Network
26
ISO
International Organization for Standardization
27
ISP
Internet Service Provider
28
ITIL
Information Technology Infrastructure Library
29
ITU
International Telecommunication Union
S.No. Abbreviations Full-Form
1
J2EE
Java 2 Enterprise Edition
2
J2ME
Java 2 Micro Edition
3
J2SE
Java 2 Standard Edition
4
JAXB
Java Architecture for XML Binding
5
JAX-RPC
Java XML for Remote Procedure Calls
6
JAXP
Java API for XML Processing
7
JDBC
Java Database Connectivity
8
JDK
Java Development Kit
9
JFET
Junction Field-Effect Transistor
10
JIT
Just-In-Time
11
JNDI
Java Naming and Directory Interface
12
JPEG
Joint Photographic Experts Group
13
JRE
Java Runtime Environment
14
JSON
JavaScript Object Notation
15
JSP
JavaServer Pages
S.No. Abbreviations Full-Form
1
L10N
Localization
2
L2TP
Layer two Tunneling Protocol
3
LACP
Link Aggregation Control Protocol
4
LAN
Local Area Network
5
LB
Load Balancer
6
LCD
Liquid Crystal Display
7
LDAP
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
8
LIFO
Last In First Out
9
LOC
Lines of Code
10
LTE
Long Term Evolution
S.No. Abbreviations Full-Form
1
MAC
Media Access Control
2
MAN
Metropolitan Area Network
3
MAPI
Messaging Application Programming Interface
4
MBR
Master Boot Record
5
Mb / MB
Megabit / Megabyte
6
MDI
Multiple Document Interface
7
MF
Medium Frequency
8
MGCP
Media Gateway Control Protocol
9
MHz
Megahertz
10
MICR
Magnetic Ink Character Recognition
11
MIME
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
12
MIPS
Million Instructions Per Second
13
MOSFET
Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor
14
MOTD
Message Of The Day
15
MOV
Apple QuickTime Multimedia File
16
MPEG
Motion Pictures Experts Group
17
MSDN
Microsoft Developer Network
18
MTA
Mail Transfer Agent
19
MU
Memory Unit
20
MX
Mail exchange
S.No. Abbrreviations Full-Form
1
NAC
Network Access Control
2
NACK
Negative ACKnowledgement
3
NaN
Not a Number
4
NAS
Network-Attached Storage
5
NAT
Network Address Translation
6
NCP
NetWare Core Protocol
7
NetBIOS
Network Basic Input/Output System
8
NFS
Network File System
9
NIC
Network Interface Controller
10
NNTP
Network News Transfer Protocol
11
NOS
Network Operating System
12
NSS
Network Security Services
13
NT
New Technology
14
NTFS
NT Filesystem
15
NTLM
NT Lan Manager
16
NTP
Network Time Protocol
S.No. Abbreviation Full-Form
1
OASIS
Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards
2
ODBC
Open Database Connectivity
3
OLAP
Online Analytical Processing
4
OLE
Object Linking and Embedding
5
OLED
Organic Light Emitting Diode
6
OLTP
Online Transaction Processing
7
OMR
Optical Mark Reader
8
OOP
Object-Oriented Programming
9
OPML
Outline Processor Markup Language
10
ORB
Object Request Broker
11
ORM
Object-Relational Mapping
12
OSI
Open Systems Interconnection
S.No. Abbreviation Full-Form
1
P2P
Peer-To-Peer
2
PaaS
Platform as a Service
3
PAN
Personal Area Network
4
PAP
Password Authentication Protocol
5
PCI
Peripheral Component Interconnect
6
PCM
Pulse-Code Modulation
7
PDF
Portable Document Format
8
PERL
Practical Extraction and Reporting Language
9
PHP
Hypertext Preprocessor
10
PKCS
Public Key Cryptography Standards
11
PKI
Public Key Infrastructure
12
PNG
Portable Network Graphics
13
POP3
Post Office Protocol v3
14
PPI
Pixels Per Inch
15
PSU
Power Supply Unit
16
PV
Physical Volume
17
PVG
Physical Volume Group
S.No. Abbreviations Full-Form
1
RAD
Rapid Application Development
2
RAID
Redundant Array of Independent Disks
3
RAM
Random Access Memory
4
RARP
Reverse Address Resolution Protocol
5
RDBMS
Relational Database Management System
6
RDP
Remote Desktop Protocol
7
REST
Representational State Transfer
8
RIA
Rich Internet Application
9
RIP
Routing Information Protocol
10
RISC
Reduced Instruction Set Computer
11
RMI
Remote Method Invocation
12
ROM
Read-Only Memory
13
RPC
Remote Procedure Call
14
RSVP
Resource Reservation Protocol
15
RTAI
Real-Time Application Interface
16
RTF
Rich Text Format
17
RTMP
Real-Time Messaging Protocol
18
RTP
Real-time Transport Protocol
19
RTSP
Real-Time Streaming Protocol
20
RWD
Responsive Web Design
S.No. Abbreviations Full-Form
1
SaaS
Software as a Service
2
SAN
Storage Area Network
3
SAX
Simple API for XML
4
SCM
Source Code Management
5
SCSI
Small Computer System Interface
6
SCTP
Stream Control Transmission Protocol
7
SDDL
Security Descriptor Definition Language
8
SDI
Single Document Interface
9
SDK
Software Development Kit
10
SDN
Service Delivery Network
11
SDP
Session Description Protocol
12
SEO
Search Engine Optimization
13
SFTP
Simple File Transfer Protocol
14
SGML
Standard Generalized Markup Language
15
SHA
Secure Hash Algorithm
16
SIM
Subscriber Identification Module
17
SIP
Session Initiation Protocol
18
SLIP
Serial Line Internet Protocol
19
SMS
Short Message Service
20
SMTP
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
21
SNMP
Simple Network Management Protocol
22
SNTP
Simple Network Time Protocol
23
SOA
Service-Oriented Architecture
24
SOAP
Simple Object Access Protocol
25
SQL
Structured Query Language
26
SRAM
Static Random Access Memory
27
SSD
Solid-State Drive
28
SSDP
Simple Service Discovery Protocol
29
SSH
Secure Shell
30
SSTP
Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol
31
SVG
Scalable Vector Graphics
32
SVGA
Super Video Graphics Array
S. No. Abbreviations Full-Form
1
TB
TeraByte
2
TCP
Transmission Control Protocol
3
TCP/IP
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
4
TDMA
Time-Division Multiple Access
5
TFTP
Trivial File Transfer Protocol
6
TIFF
Tagged Image File Format
7
TLD
Top-Level Domain
8
TNC
Terminal Node Controller
S.No. Abbreviations Full-Form
1
UAC
User Account Control
2
UAT
User Acceptance Testing
3
UCS
Universal Character Set
4
UDDI
Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration
5
UDP
User Datagram Protocol
6
UHF
Ultra-High Frequency
7
UML
Unified Modeling Language
8
UNC
Universal Naming Convention
9
UNIVAC
Universal Automatic Computer
10
URI
Uniform Resource Identifier
11
URL
Uniform Resource Locator
12
URN
Uniform Resource Name
13
USB
Universal Serial Bus
14
UTF
Unicode Transformation Format
15
UUID
Universally Unique Identifier
S.No. Abbreviations Full-Form
1
VCPI
Virtual Control Program Interface
2
VBA
Visual Basic for Applications
3
VDI
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
4
VDU
Visual Display Unit
5
VFS
Virtual File System
6
VGA
Video Graphics Array
7
VLAN
Virtual Local Area Network
8
VoIP
Voice over Internet Protocol
9
VPN
Virtual Private Network
10
VPS
Virtual Private Server
S.No. Abbreviation Full-Form
1
W3C
World Wide Web Consortium
2
WAFS
Wide Area File Services
3
WAN
Wide Area Network
4
WAP
Wireless Application Protocol
5
WCF
Windows Communication Foundation
6
WDM
Wavelength-Division Multiplexing
7
WINS
Windows Internet Name Service
8
WLAN
Wireless Local Area Network
9
WMA
Windows Media Audio
10
WMV
Windows Media Video
11
WPAD
Web Proxy Autodiscovery Protocol
12
WSDL
Web Services Description Language
13
WSFL
Web Services Flow Language
14
WWW
World Wide Web
15
WYSIWYG
What You See Is What You Get
S.No. Abbreviation Full-Form
1
XAML
eXtensible Application Markup Language
2
XHTML
eXtensible Hypertext Markup Language
3
XSD
XML Schema Definition
4
XSL
eXtensible Stylesheet Language
5
XSLT
eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformations
6
XSS
Cross-Site Scripting
7
XTF
eXtensible Tag Framework
8
XUL
XML User Interface Language
9
XVGA
Extended Video Graphics Adapter
