Hardware Acronymns
Network Acronyms
Security & Privacy Acronyms
Software & Virtualization Acronyms
Storage Acronyms
100
The primary processor for a computer.
What is a Central Processing Unit?
100
The major protocol that allows a centralized service to assign IP address within a local network.
What is Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol?
100
Often bundled in with a legitimate application, this type of program is characterized by unwanted pop-ups and slow performance.
What is a Potentially Unwanted Program?
100
Examples of this include Gmail, Netflix, Google Worksapce.
What is Software as a Service?
100
Unlike its predecessor, this computer component that stores non-volitle data has no moving parts and is considered more reliable.
What is a Solid State Drive?
200
Component of a computer that stores short-term memory and is often inserted into a slot.
What is RAM?
200
This protocol for transferring files is considered insecure because it is not encrypted in-transport.
What is File Transfer Protocol?
200
This is a digital measure designed to prevent copyright infrimgement.
What is Digital Rights Management?
200
Often referred to as a "guest," this is a virtual operating system sharing the resources alongside the "host" system and potentially other instances.
What is a Virtual Machine?
200
Type of port used for modern Hard Drives and some Solid State Drives.
What is Serial Advanced Technology Attachment?
300
Often soldered, this RAM stores data like textures and rendering information.
What is Video Random-Access Memory?
(What is Graphics Double Data Rate?)
300
Distributed attack to a service that is done by overwhelming the target.
What is a Distributed Denial of Service?
300
This symmetric encryption algorithm was adopted as a United States federal standard in 2002.
What is Advanced Encryption Standard?
300
Provides developers with access to various development tools such as servers, storage, middle-ware, etc. An example of this is Replit.
What is Platform as a Service?
300
A small flash memory card used to store non-volatile that has three different psychical forms.
What is Secure Digital?
400
Component on the motherboard that stores BIOS settings.
What is a Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor chip?
400
A wired or wireless connection between two or more devices within a limited area to communicate and share resources.
What is a Local Area Network?
400
This is a EU regulation regarding collection of data and is one of the reasons for cookie pop-ups.
What is General Data Protection Regulation?
400
A language used to extract data from relational databases.
What is Structured Query Language?
400
This is used to increase speed and have redundancy across multiple disks.
What is Redundant Array of Independent Disks?
500
A standard for many computer parts, including power supplies and motherboards.
What is Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
500
A networking protocol used for latency-sensitive applications that does not guarantee delivery of packets.
What is User Datagram Protocol?
500
This tamper-resistant device generates and stores cryptographic keys to perform functions like encryption.
What is a Hardware Security Module?
(What is is Trusted Platform Module?)
500
Often using thin-clients to connect, this is type of infrastructure that uses Virtual Machines to centrally manage many virtual desktop environments.
What is Virtual Desktop Infrastructure?
500
The team that picks this card gets 1000 points.
The team that picks this card gets 1000 points.
600
This high-speed expansion bus is used on modern graphics cards.
What is Peripheral Component Interconnect Express?
600
Compared to UDP, this networking protocol ensures data is correctly delivered and ordered.
What is Transmission Control Protocol?
600
Under HIPPA, this type of information includes any unqiue health information in a electronic format.
What is Electronic Protected Health Information?
600
Often done in HTTP, this software interface allows separate software systems to exchange data.
What is Application Programming Interface?
600
The default filesystem on modern Windows systems.
What is New Technology File System (NTFS)?
700
This CPU socket is characterized by having pins on the CPU itself.
What is Pin Grid Array?
700
Major communication protocol that allows addressing and routing used to deliver data packets across a network. This is used to form the Internet.
What is Internet Protocol?
700
A type of attack that commonly exploits a websites' failure to sanitize user input, causing a normal user's browser to execute malicious code.
What is Cross-Site Scripting?
700
Compared to it's predecessor telnet, this commonly used network protocol to access another computer is secure.
What is Secure Shell (SSH)?
700
A technology to report when a disk is unhealthy or about to fail.
What is Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology (SMART) ?