Most Important 200+ Computer Abbreviations for Exams
■■ Computer Hardware
Abbreviation Full Form
CPU Central Processing Unit
ALU Arithmetic Logic Unit
CU Control Unit
BIOS Basic Input Output System
CMOS Complementary Metal–Oxide–Semiconductor
AGP Accelerated Graphics Port
PCI Peripheral Component Interconnect
PCIe Peripheral Component Interconnect express
SMPS Switched-Mode Power Supply
PSU Power Supply Unit
VGA Video Graphics Array
DVI Digital Visual Interface
HDMI High Definition Multimedia Interface
LED Light-Emitting Diode
LCD Liquid Crystal Display
CRT Cathode Ray Tube
UPS Uninterruptible Power Supply
IC Integrated Circuit
VLSI Very Large Scale Integration
ULSI Ultra Large Scale Integration
POST Power-On Self-Test
NIC Network Interface Card
USB Universal Serial Bus
PNP Plug and Play
SATA Serial Advanced Technology Attachment
IDE/ATA Integrated Drive Electronics/Advanced Technology Attachment
SCSI Small Computer System Interface
■ Memory & Storage
Abbreviation Full Form
RAM Random Access Memory
ROM Read-Only Memory
DRAM Dynamic Random Access Memory
SRAM Static Random Access Memory
PROM Programmable Read-Only Memory
EPROM Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
EEPROM Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
HDD Hard Disk Drive
SSD Solid State Drive
CD Compact Disc
DVD Digital Versatile Disc / Digital Video Disc
BD Blu-ray Disc
CD-ROM Compact Disc Read-Only Memory
WORM Write Once Read Many
KB Kilobyte
MB Megabyte
GB Gigabyte
TB Terabyte
PB Petabyte
FDD Floppy Disk Drive
FAT File Allocation Table
NTFS New Technology File System
■ Networking & Internet
Abbreviation Full Form
WWW World Wide Web
URL Uniform Resource Locator
HTTP HyperText Transfer Protocol
HTTPS HyperText Transfer Protocol Secure
IP Internet Protocol
TCP Transmission Control Protocol
UDP User Datagram Protocol
FTP File Transfer Protocol
SFTP Secure File Transfer Protocol
SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
POP3 Post Office Protocol version 3
IMAP Internet Message Access Protocol
DNS Domain Name System
DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
LAN Local Area Network
WAN Wide Area Network
MAN Metropolitan Area Network
PAN Personal Area Network
WLAN Wireless Local Area Network
WIFI Wireless Fidelity
ISP Internet Service Provider
VPN Virtual Private Network
VoIP Voice over Internet Protocol
MAC Media Access Control (Address)
OSI Open Systems Interconnection
ARPANET Advanced Research Projects Agency Network
GPRS General Packet Radio Service
GSM Global System for Mobile communication
UMTS Universal Mobile Telecommunications System
LTE Long-Term Evolution
DL Download
UL Upload
BPS Bits Per Second
Kbps Kilobits per second
Mbps Megabits per second
PING Packet Internet/Internetwork Groper
NAT Network Address Translation
■ Software, OS & Programming
Abbreviation Full Form
OS Operating System
GUI Graphical User Interface
CUI Character User Interface
DOS Disk Operating System
MS-DOS Microsoft Disk Operating System
API Application Programming Interface
OOP Object-Oriented Programming
SQL Structured Query Language
DBMS Database Management System
RDBMS Relational Database Management System
DDL Data Definition Language
DML Data Manipulation Language
COBOL Common Business Oriented Language
FORTRAN Formula Translation
BASIC Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
HTML HyperText Markup Language
XML Extensible Markup Language
CSS Cascading Style Sheets
PHP Hypertext Preprocessor
ASP Active Server Pages
JVM Java Virtual Machine
DLL Dynamic Link Library
IDE Integrated Development Environment
OSS Open Source Software
ERP Enterprise Resource Planning
AI Artificial Intelligence
■ Communication & Media
Abbreviation Full Form
E-Mail Electronic Mail
SMS Short Message Service
MMS Multimedia Messaging Service
CC Carbon Copy
BCC Blind Carbon Copy
PDF Portable Document Format
TXT Text
DOC/DOCX Document
GIF Graphics Interchange Format
JPEG/JPG Joint Photographic Experts Group
PNG Portable Network Graphics
BMP Bitmap
TIFF Tagged Image File Format
MP3 MPEG Audio Layer 3
MPEG Moving Picture Experts Group
AVI Audio Video Interleave
WAV Waveform Audio File Format
WMA Windows Media Audio
WMV Windows Media Video
VCD Video Compact Disc
DVR Digital Video Recorder
RGB Red Green Blue
CMYK Cyan Magenta Yellow Key (Black)
MICR Magnetic Ink Character Recognition
OCR Optical Character Recognition
OMR Optical Mark Reader
