Useful Core A acronyms

 Useful core A acronyms 

 

NGO – Non governmental organisation 

KPI – Key performance indicator 

USP – Unique selling point 

CRM – Customer relationship management 

Saas – Software as a service 

CAB – Change advisory board 

SMARTER – Specific, measurable, accurate, realistic, time-bound, evaluate, re-evaluate 

IPO – Intellectual property office 

RCD – Registered community designs 

UCD – Unregistered community designs 

TNA – Training needs analysis 

PRR – Post project reviews 

COBC – Code of business conduct 

BCS – British computing society 

ML – Machine learning 

CVS – Computer vision syndrome 

RSI – Repetitive strain injury 

DSE – Display screen equipment 

HSE – Health and safety executive 

ODD – Optical disk drive 

RPM – Revolutions per minute 

CPU – Central processing unit 

RAM – Random access memory 

EMI – Electromagnetic interference 

RFI – Radio frequency interference 

ASIC – Application specific integrated circuit 

FPGA – Field programmable gate array 

USB – Universal serial bus 

RAID – Redundant array of independent disks 

SAS – Serial attached SCSI 

ROM – Read only memory 

SATA – Serial advanced technology attachment 

GUI - Graphical user interface 

GPU – Graphical processing unit 

LCD – Liquid crystal display 

MAN – Metropolitan area network 

WAN – Wide area network 

LAN – Local area network 

WMAN – Wireless metropolitan area network 

ISP – Internet service provider 

PAN – Personal area network 

VPN – Virtual private network 

IP – Internet protocol 

VLAN – Virtual local area network 

DOCSIS – Data over cable service interface specification 

NIC – Network interface card 

DSL – Digital subscriber line 

WAP – Wireless access point 

API – Application program interface 

CLI – Command line interface 

RTOS – Real time operating system 

NOS – Network operating system 

URI – Uniform resource identifiers 

M2M – Machine to machine 

ICS – Industrial control systems 

HMI – Human machine interface 

DCS – Distributed control system 

PLC – Programmable logic controllers 

SCADA – Supervisory control and data acquisition systems 

TSL – Transport security layer 

SSL – Secure socket layer 

HTTP – Hypertext transfer protocol 

SMTP – Simple mail transfer protocol 

MTA – Mail transfer agent 

POP – Post office protocol 

TCP – Transmission control protocol 

IMAP – Internet message access protocol 

MIME – Multipurpose internet mail extensions 

AS – Autonomous system 

RIP – Routing information protocol 

IGP – Interior gateway protocol 

OSEF – Open shortest path first 

ISO – International organisation for standardisation 

FTP – File transfer protocol 

WWW – World wide web 

NFS – Network file system 

SNMP - Simple network management protocol 

UDP – User datagram protocol 

SPX – Sequenced packet exchange 

NetBEUI – Netbios extended user interface 

ARP – Address resolution protocol 

RARP – Reverse address resolution protocol 

EGP – Exterior gateway protocol 

HDLC – High-level data link control 

LLC – Logical link control 

SLIP – Serial line internet protocol 

PPP – Point-to-point protocol 

MAC – Media access control 

DNS – Domain name system 

DHCP – Dynamic host configuration protocol 

TTL – Time to live 

OSI – Open systems interconnection 

VM – Virtual machine 

CDN – Content delivery network 

VCC – Virtual client computing 

PVM – Paravirtual machine 

COTS – Commercial off the shelf 

NFV – Network functions virtualisation 

VMM – Virtual machine monitor 

Iaas – Infrastructure as a service  

Paas - Platform as a service 

Faas - Function as a service 

Saas - Software as a service 

Daas – Data as a service 

Xaas – Everything as a service 

WCAG – Web content accessibility guidelines 

EHRC – Equality and human rights commission 

USO – Universal services obligation 

IAP – Institution of analysts and programmers 

CIISec – Chartered institute of information security 

DDSA – DNA data storage alliance 

CAD – Computer aided design 

UAV – Unmanned aerial vehicle 

RPA – Remotely piloted aircraft 

SERP – Search engine results page 

MOOC – Massive open online courses 

SDK – Software development kit 

IDE – Integrated development environment 

ROI – Return on investment 

IRR – Internal rate of return 

NPV – Net present value 

PERT – Programme evaluation review technique 

WBS – Work breakdown structure 

RACI – Responsible, accountable, consulted or informed 

MoSCoW – Must have, should have, could have, would have 

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