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Hardware Acronyms
Software Acronyms
Network Acronyms
100

This port is commonly used for accessing insecure web sites.

What is 80?

(HTTP, Hyper-Text Transfer Protocol)

100

This service uses port 53.

What is Domain Name System?

100

IoT stands for this.


What is Internet of Things?

100

This protocol is used to receive email and it, by default, deletes the mail from the server after receiving the mail.

What is Post Office Protocol?

100

This is for diving one physical network into multiple virtual separate networks.

What is a Virtual Local Area Network?

200

This port is commonly used for accessing secure web sites.

What is 443?

(HTTPS, Hyper-Text Transfer Protocol Secure)

200

This port is commonly used for sending email.

What is 25?

(SMTP, Simple Mail Transfer Protocol)

200

This is the modern connection type for modern hard drives and should state drives.

What is Serial Advanced Technology Attachment?

200

A pop-up on windows systems that asks for your password before performing an administrative action.

What is User Account Control?

200

This is a type of address that is used when DHCP fails.


What is Automatic Private IP Addressing?

300

This port is used for Apple's file sharing over a network.

What is 548?

(AFP, Apple Filing Protocol)

300

This port is used for directory information and can be used for authentication.

What is 389?

(LDAP, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol)

300

A type of Solid State Drive often inserted into M.2 slots that uses PCIe.

What is Non-Volatile Memory express?

300
Technologies for providing voice calls over the internet.

What is Voice Over Internet Protocol?

300

Service on a network to assign devices an IP addresses.

What is Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol?

400

This port is commonly used for insecure file transport.

What is port 20 and 21?

(FTP, File Transfer Protocol)

400

This is the port used for Server Message Block, a protocol used to share files and printers over a network.

What is 445?


400

This is what SATA stands for.


Serial Advanced Technology Attachment

400

A backup system where daily, weekly, and monthly backups are made.

What is Grandfather Father Son?

400

This is the DNS record for specifying where emails should go.

What is Mail Exchange?

500

This port is commonly used for acessing desktops remotely and was created by Microsoft.

What is 3389?

(RDP, Remote Desktop Protocol)

500

This port is commonly used to receive email, without deleting it from the server by default.

What is 143?

(IMAP, Internet Message Access Protocol)

500

This display technology uses an organic compound that emits light when an electric current is passed through it.

What is OLED?

500

This and "tunnels" to another network over an insecure connection.


What is Virtual Private Network?

500

This allows devices to be set up automatically. It is also a feature on routers to allow ports to be opened on a devices request. 

What is UPnP?

1000

This port range is commonly used for a protocol used to simply remotely manage network devices.

What is 161 to 161?

(SNMP, Simple Network Manage Protocol)

1000

This is the port range and transport layer protocol/s used for NetBIOS.

What are ports 137 to 139 and UDP/TCP?

1000

The team who picks this gets 2000 points.

The team who picks this gets 2000 points.

1000

This is what RADIUS stands for.

(You have to say the full thing, 100% correct.)

What is Remote Authentication Dial-In User Server?