Computer Terms

A

ADSL               =         Asymmetric  Digital  Subscriber  Line

ALU                 =         Arithmetic  Logic  Unit

AGP                 =         Accelerated   Graphics  Port
AMD                 =        Advanced  Micro  Devices
ATX                  =        Advanced  Technology Extended                                
ASCII              =        American Standard Code for Information Interchange

B

BIT       =   1 or 0  level of  storage is  called a  bit 
BPS      =    Bits  Per  Second
BCD      =    Boot Configuration Data
BYTE    =    A  measurement  of  storage  capacity

C

CBT               =            Computer  Based  Training
CD                 =            Compact  Disk
CD-R             =            Compact  Disk  Recordable
CD-ROM       =            Compact  Disk - Read  Only  Memory
CPU              =             Center  Processing  Unit

D 

DAT               =            Digital  Audio  Tape
DOS               =            Disk  Operating  System 
DSL                =            Digital  Subscriber  Line 
DVD               =            Digital  Versatile  Disk

E

EEPROM       =            Electrically erasable programable read only memory.

E-mail            =            Electronic mail

  F

FTP               =            File Transfer Protocol

 G

GB      =    GigaByte (1024 Mbytes)
GPT    =    GUID Partition Table
GHz    =    GigaHertz (Measurement of Computer Speed) 

GUI     =   Graphical User Interface  

H

HTML           =             Hyper Text Markup Language.

Hz                =             Hertz (this is a measurement of frequency)

I

IBM              =             International Business machine

ICT               =             Information and Communication Technology

IM                 =             Instant Messaging

IT                  =            Information Technology

IPS                =            Instant Power Supply

 

J

IT                  =            Information Technology

K

IT                  =            Information Technology

Kbps              =           Kilobits per second

KBps              =           kilobytes per second

L

IT                  =            Information Technology

M

MBR   =    Master Boot Record

MBps  =     Megabytes  per  second
MCA    =     Micro  channel  architecture.
MDA    =     Monochrome  display  adapter.
MIDI   =     Musical  Instrument  Digital  Interface        

N

IT                  =            Information Technology

O

IT                  =            Information Technology

P

IT                  =            Information Technology

Q

IT                  =            Information Technology

R

RAM              =           Random Access memory

ROM              =           Read only memory

RSI                =           Repetitive Strain Injury

RSS               =           Really Simple Syndication

BIOS             =           Basic Input Output System

 

S

IT                  =            Information Technology

T

IT                  =            Information Technology                                                TB                 =            Terabyte

U

UPS               =            Uninterruptible Power Supply

USB               =            Universal Serial Bus

V

VOIP             =            Voice Over Internet Protocol

W

WAN      =   Wide Area Network

WWW    =   World Wide Web
WMI      =   Windows Management Instrumentation
WDS      =   Windows Deployment Services

WSUS    =   Windows Server Update Services

X

IT                  =            Information Technology

Y

IT                  =            Information Technology

Z

IT                  =            Information Technology