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This is a glossary of acronyms commonly used when studying for any of the ProSoft CIW Certification Exams

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AADS: Ameritech Advanced Data Systems

Ameritech (NYSE: AIT) serves millions of customers in 50 states and 40 countries. Ameritech provides a full range of communications services including local and long-distance telephone and data, cellular, paging, security, cable TV, Internet and more. One of the world's 100 largest companies, Ameritech (www.ameritech.com) has 70,500 employees, 1 million shareowners and more than $30 billion in assets. Ameritech also operates the Internet Network Access Point (NAP) in Chicago, the largest Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) access point in the world. Ameritech has also been selected by the National Science Foundation as the global NAP for the next generation Internet initiative. iCAIR Press Release February 1999

ACH: Automated Clearing House

Automated Clearing House (ACH) is the name of an electronic network for financial transactions in the United States. ACH processes large volumes of both credit and debit transactions which are originated in batches.- More From Wikipedia -

ACL: Access Control List

In computer security, an access control list (ACL) is a list of permissions attached to an object. The list specifies who or what is allowed to access the object and what operations are allowed to be performed on the object. - More From Wikipedia -

AD: Active Directory

Active Directory (AD) is an implementation of LDAP directory services by Microsoft for use primarily in Windows environments. The main purpose of Active Directory is to provide central authentication and authorization services for Windows based computers. - More From Wikipedia -

ADO: ActiveX Data Object

Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) is a set of Component Object Model objects for accessing data sources. It provides a layer between programming languages and OLE DB (a means of accessing data stores in a uniform manner), which allows a developer to write programs which access data, without knowing how the database is implemented. - More From Wikipedia -

ADOdb: ActiveX Data Object Database

ADOdb is a database abstraction library for PHP and Python based on the same concept as Microsoft's ActiveX Data Objects. It allows developers to write applications in a fairly consistent way regardless of the underlying database storing the information. The advantage is that the database can be changed without re-writing every call to it in the application. - More From Wikipedia -

ADR: Advanced Data Recording

ADSL: Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line

Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) is a form of DSL, a data communications technology that enables faster data transmission over copper telephone lines than a conventional voiceband modem can provide. - More From Wikipedia -

AFP: Apple File Protocol

The Apple Filing Protocol (AFP) is a layer 6 (presentation layer) network protocol that offers file services for Mac OS X and Classic Mac OS. - More From Wikipedia -

AH: Authentication Header

AH is a protocol that provides authentication of either all or part of the contents of a datagram through the addition of a header that is calculated based on the values in the datagram. - More From TCP/IP Guide -

AM: Amplitude Modulation

Amplitude modulation (AM) is a technique used in electronic communication, most commonly for transmitting information via a radio carrier wave. - More From Wikipedia -

AMI: Alternate Mark Inversion

When used on a T-carrier, bipolar encoding is known as Alternate Mark Inversion because, in this context, a binary 1 is referred to as a "mark", while a binary 0 is called a "space".[2] The coding was used extensively in first-generation PCM networks, and is still commonly seen on older multiplexing equipment today. - More From Wikipedia -

ANS: Advanced Network Services

ANSI: American National Standards Institute

The American National Standards Institute or ANSI (IPA pronunciation: [ænsiː]) is a private nonprofit organization that oversees the development of voluntary consensus standards for products, services, processes, systems, and personnel in the United States. - More From Wikipedia -

AP: Access Point

In computer networking, a wireless access point (WAP or AP) is a device that connects wireless communication devices together to form a wireless network. - More From Wikipedia -

API: Application Program Interface

An application programming interface (API) is a source code interface that a computer application, operating system or library provides to support requests for services to be made of it by a computer program. - More From Wikipedia -

APIPA: Automatic Private IP Addressing

Zeroconf or Zero Configuration Networking is a set of techniques that automatically create a usable IP network without configuration or special servers. (Redirected from APIPA) - More From Wikipedia -

ARP: Address Resolution Protocol

In computer networking, the Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) is the standard method for finding a host's hardware address when only its network layer address is known. - More From Wikipedia -

ARPA: Advanced Research Projects Agency

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is an agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of new technology for use by the military. (Redirected from Advanced Research Projects Agency) - More From Wikipedia -

ARPANET: Advanced Research Projects Agency Network

The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) developed by DARPA of the United States Department of Defense was the world's first operational packet switching network, and the predecessor of the global Internet. - More From Wikipedia -

ASCII: American Standard Code for Information Interchange

American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) is a character encoding based on the English alphabet. ASCII codes represent text in computers, communications equipment, and other devices that work with text. - More From Wikipedia -

ASF: Advanced Streaming Format

Advanced Systems Format (formerly Advanced Streaming Format) is Microsoft's proprietary digital audio/digital video container format, especially meant for streaming media. - More From Wikipedia -

ASP: Active Server Pages / Application Service Provider

Active Server Pages (ASP) is Microsoft's server-side script engine for dynamically-generated web pages. It is marketed as an add-on to Internet Information Services (IIS). - More From Wikipedia - An application service provider (ASP) is a business that provides computer-based services to customers over a network. - More From Wikipedia -

ATM: Asynchronous Transfer Mode

Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) is a cell relay, packet switching network and data link layer protocol which encodes data traffic into small (53 bytes; 48 bytes of data and 5 bytes of header information) fixed-sized cells. ATM provides data link layer services that run over Layer 1 links. [Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) is a cell relay, packet switching network and data link layer protocol which encodes data traffic into small (53 bytes; 48 bytes of data and 5 bytes of header information) fixed-sized cells. ATM provides data link layer services that run over Layer 1 links. - More From Wikipedia -

ATVEF: Advanced Television Enhancement Forum

AU: Unix Audio

AV: Anti-Virus

Antivirus software consists of computer programs that attempt to identify, thwart and eliminate computer viruses and other malicious software (malware). - More From Wikipedia -

AVI: Audio Visual Interleaved

Audio Video Interleave, known by its acronym AVI, is a multimedia container format introduced by Microsoft in November 1992 as part of its Video for Windows technology. AVI files can contain both audio and video data in a standard container that allows synchronous audio-with-video playback. - More From Wikipedia -

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