A list of commonly used acronyms in IT
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| CPU | Central Processing Unit
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| ALU | Arithmetic and Logic Unit
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| OMR | Optical Mark Recognition
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| OCR | Optical Character Recognition
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| MICR | Magnetic Ink Character Reader
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| MIDI | Musical Instrument Digital Interface
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| CRT | Cathode Ray Tube
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| VDU | Visual Display Unit
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| ROM | Read Only Memory
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| RAM | Random Access Memory
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| PROM | Programmable Read Only Memory
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| EPROM | Erasable and Programmable Read Only Memory
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| CD | Compact Disk
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| CD-R | Compact Disk Recordable
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| CD-RW | Compact Disk Rewritable
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| USB | Universal Serial Bus
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| GUI | Graphical User Interface
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| MAN | Metropolitan Area Network
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| LAN | Local Area Network
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| Wi-Fi | Wireless Fidelity
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| WAN | Wide Area Network
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| UPS | Uninterruptible Power Supply
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| EDI | Electronic Data Interchange
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| HTML | HyperText Markup Language
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| URL | Uniform Resource Locator
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| ADSL | Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
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| IP | Internet Protocol
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| VoIP | Voice-over IP
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| WWW | World Wide Web
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| FTP | File Transfer Protocol
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| IRC | Internet Relay Chat
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