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 Abbreviation Words
What is Computer Abbreviations?
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:
A – 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
B – Computer Abbreviations
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
C – Computer Abbreviations
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
D – Computer Abbreviations
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
E – Computer Abbreviations
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
F – Computer Abbreviations
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
G – Computer Abbreviations
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
H – Computer Abbreviations
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
I – Computer Abbreviations
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
J – Computer Abbreviations
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
L – Computer Abbreviations
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
M – Computer Abbreviations
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
N – Computer Abbreviations
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
O – Computer Abbreviations
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
P – Computer Abbreviations
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
R – Computer Abbreviations
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 – Computer Abbreviations
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
T – Computer Abbreviations
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
U – Computer Abbreviations
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
V – Computer Abbreviations
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
W – Computer Abbreviations
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
X – Computer Abbreviations
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