| ACID | Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability | 9 |
| ACL | Access Control List | 8 |
| ADC | Analog-to-Digital Converter | 8 |
| ADF | Automatic Document Feeder | 8 |
| ADSL | Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line | 7 |
| AFP | Apple Filing Protocol | 8 |
| AGP | Accelerated Graphics Port | 6 |
| AIFF | Audio Interchange File Format | 6 |
| AIX | Advanced Interactive Executive | 9 |
| ALU | Arithmetic Logic Unit | 9 |
| ANR | Application Not Responding | 7 |
| ANSI | American National Standards Institute | 8 |
| API | Application Program Interface | 6 |
| APM | Actions Per Minute | 8 |
| APU | Accelerated Processing Unit | 8 |
| ARP | Address Resolution Protocol | 8 |
| ASCII | American Standard Code for Information Interchange | 7 |
| ASO | App Store Optimization | 7 |
| ASP | Active Server Page or Application Service Provider | 7 |
| ATA | Advanced Technology Attachment | 6 |
| ATM | Asynchronous Transfer Mode | 5 |
| ATX | Advanced Technology eXtended | 8 |
| AUP | Acceptable Use Policy | 4 |
| AVR | Audio/Video Receiver | 5 |
| Bash | Bourne-Again Shell | 9 |
| BASIC | Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code | 6 |
| Bcc | Blind Carbon Copy | 4 |
| BIOS | Basic Input/Output System | 6 |
| BLE | Bluetooth Low Energy | 7 |
| Blob | Binary Large Object | 8 |
| BMP | Bitmap | 5 |
| BSOD | Blue Screen of Death | 6 |
| CAD | Computer-Aided Design | 4 |
| CAN | Campus Area Network | 7 |
| Cc | Carbon Copy | 4 |
| CCD | Charged Coupled Device | 7 |
| CD | Compact Disc | 1 |
| CD-R | Compact Disc Recordable | 3 |
| CD-ROM | Compact Disc Read-Only Memory | 2 |
| CD-RW | Compact Disc Re-Writable | 3 |
| CDFS | Compact Disc File System | 8 |
| CDMA | Code Division Multiple Access | 9 |
| CDN | Content Delivery Network | 7 |
| CGI | Common Gateway Interface | 8 |
| CISC | Complex Instruction Set Computing | 9 |
| CLOB | Character Large Object | 9 |
| CMOS | Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor | 10 |
| CMS | Content Management System | 7 |
| CMYK | Cyan Magenta Yellow Black | 5 |
| Control Unit | CU | 10 |
| CORS | Cross-Origin Resource Sharing | 10 |
| CPA | Cost Per Action | 8 |
| CPC | Cost Per Click | 8 |
| CPL | Cost Per Lead | 8 |
| CPM | Cost Per 1,000 Impressions | 8 |
| CPS | Classroom Performance System | 5 |
| CPU | Central Processing Unit | 3 |
| CRM | Customer Relationship Management | 6 |
| CRT | Cathode Ray Tube | 5 |
| CSS | Cascading Style Sheet | 5 |
| CSV | Comma-Separated Values | 7 |
| CTP | Composite Theoretical Performance | 10 |
| CTR | Click-Through Rate | 8 |
| CUDA | Compute Unified Device Architecture | 8 |
| DAC | Digital-to-Analog Converter | 7 |
| DAW | Digital Audio Workstation | 5 |
| DBMS | Database Management System | 7 |
| DCIM | Digital Camera IMages | 7 |
| DDL | Data Definition Language | 8 |
| DDR | Double Data Rate | 7 |
| DDR2 | Double Data Rate 2 | 7 |
| DDR3 | Double Data Rate Type 3 | 8 |
| DDR4 | Double Data Rate 4 | 7 |
| DFS | Distributed File System | 8 |
| DHCP | Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol | 7 |
| DIMM | Dual In-Line Memory Module | 7 |
| DKIM | DomainKeys Identified Mail | 9 |
| DLC | Downloadable Content | 5 |
| DLL | Dynamic Link Library | 5 |
| DMA | Direct Memory Access | 8 |
| DNS | Domain Name System | 6 |
| DOS | Disk Operating System | 3 |
| DPI | Dots Per Inch | 4 |
| DRAM | Dynamic Random Access Memory | 6 |
| DRM | Digital Rights Management | 7 |
| DSL | Digital Subscriber Line | 2 |
| DSLAM | Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer | 9 |
| DTD | Document Type Definition | 8 |
| DUT | Device Under Test | 5 |
| DV | Digital Video | 4 |
| DVD | Digital Versatile Disc | 1 |
| DVD+R | Digital Versatile Disc Recordable | 3 |
| DVD+RW | Digital Versatile Disk Rewritable | 4 |
| DVD-R | Digital Versatile Disc Recordable | 3 |
| DVD-RAM | Digital Versatile Disc Random Access Memory | 8 |
| DVD-RW | Digital Versatile Disk Rewritable | 4 |
| DVI | Digital Video Interface | 5 |
| DVR | Digital Video Recorder | 4 |
| ECC | Error Correction Code | 9 |
| EDI | Electronic Data Interchange | 9 |
| eGPU | External Graphics Processing Unit | 7 |
| EIDE | Enhanced Integrated Drive Electronics | 7 |
| EOL | End Of Life | 5 |
| EPS | Encapsulated PostScript | 7 |
| ERP | Enterprise Resource Planning | 8 |
| eSATA | External Serial Advanced Technology Attachment | 7 |
| EUP | Enterprise Unified Process | 10 |
| EXIF | Exchangeable Image File Format | 7 |
| FAQ | Frequently Asked Questions | 3 |
| FDDI | Fiber Distributed Data Interface | 10 |
| FIFO | First In, First Out | 6 |
| FILO | First In, Last Out | 8 |
| Fios | Fiber Optic Service | 8 |
| FLOPS | Floating Point Operations Per Second | 8 |
| FPGA | Field-Programmable Gate Array | 9 |
| FPS | Frames Per Second | 5 |
| FPU | Floating Point Unit | 8 |
| FQDN | Fully Qualified Domain Name | 9 |
| FSB | Frontside Bus | 8 |
| FTP | File Transfer Protocol | 5 |
| Gbps | Gigabits Per Second | 5 |
| GIF | Graphics Interchange Format | 2 |
| GIGO | Garbage In, Garbage Out | 7 |
| GIS | Geographic Information Systems | 8 |
| GPGPU | General-Purpose computation on Graphics Processing Units | 8 |
| GPIO | General Purpose Input/Output | 10 |
| GPS | Global Positioning System | 7 |
| GPU | Graphics Processing Unit | 6 |
| GUI | Graphical User Interface | 6 |
| GUID | Globally Unique Identifier | 9 |
| HAN | Home Area Network | 6 |
| HD | High Definition | 2 |
| HDD | Hard Disk Drive | 4 |
| HDMI | High-Definition Multimedia Interface | 5 |
| HDR | High Dynamic Range | 4 |
| HDTV | High Definition Televsion | 3 |
| HDV | High-Definition Video | 5 |
| HFS | Hierarchical File System | 7 |
| HSF | Heat Sink and Fan | 8 |
| HTML | Hyper-Text Markup Language | 3 |
| HTTP | Hypertext Transfer Protocol | 5 |
| HTTPS | HyperText Transport Protocol Secure | 7 |
| I/O | Input/Output | 4 |
| ICANN | Internet Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers | 7 |
| ICCID | Integrated Circuit Card Identifier | 8 |
| ICF | Internet Connection Firewall | 9 |
| ICMP | Internet Control Message Protocol | 9 |
| ICS | Internet Connection Sharing | 8 |
| ICT | Information and Communication Technologies | 7 |
| IDE | Integrated Device Electronics or Integrated Development Environment | 8 |
| IDS | Intrusion Detection System | 7 |
| IEEE | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | 8 |
| IGP | Integrated Graphics Processor | 7 |
| IIS | Internet Information Services | 7 |
| IM | Instant Message | 5 |
| IMAP | Internet Message Access Protocol | 6 |
| IMEI | International Mobile Equipment Identity | 8 |
| InterNIC | Internet Network Information Center | 7 |
| IOPS | Input/Output Operations Per Second | 8 |
| IP | Internet Protocol | 5 |
| IPS | Intrusion Prevention System | 8 |
| IPX | Internetwork Packet Exchange | 9 |
| IRC | Internet Relay Chat | 7 |
| IRQ | Interrupt Request | 6 |
| ISA | Industry Standard Architecture | 7 |
| iSCSI | Internet Small Computer Systems Interface | 10 |
| ISDN | Integrated Services Digital Network | 8 |
| ISO | International Organization for Standardization | 7 |
| ISP | Internet Service Provider | 3 |
| ISR | Interrupt Service Routine | 10 |
| IT | Information Technology | 3 |
| ITIL | Information Technology Infrastructure Library | 10 |
| IVR | Interactive Voice Response | 9 |
| JDBC | Java Database Connectivity | 9 |
| JFS | Journaled File System | 10 |
| JPEG | Joint Photographic Experts Group | 2 |
| JRE | Java Runtime Environment | 8 |
| JSF | JavaServer Faces | 10 |
| JSON | JavaScript Object Notation | 8 |
| JSP | Java Server Page | 7 |
| JVM | Java Virtual Machine | 8 |
| Kbps | Kilobits Per Second | 5 |
| KDE | K Desktop Environment | 7 |
| KVM Switch | Keyboard, Video, and Mouse Switch | 6 |
| LAMP | Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP | 7 |
| LAN | Local Area Network | 6 |
| LCD | Liquid Crystal Display | 3 |
| LDAP | Lightweight Directory Access Protocol | 8 |
| LED | Light-Emitting Diode | 4 |
| LFN | Long Filename | 9 |
| LIFO | Last In, First Out | 6 |
| LPI | Lines Per Inch | 5 |
| LTE | Long Term Evolution | 6 |
| LUN | Logical Unit Number | 10 |
| MAC Address | Media Access Control Address | 7 |
| MAMP | Mac OS X, Apache, MySQL, and PHP | 8 |
| MANET | Mobile Ad Hoc Network | 10 |
| Mbps | Megabits Per Second | 4 |
| MBR | Master Boot Record | 10 |
| MCA | Micro Channel Architecture | 9 |
| MDI | Medium Dependent Interface | 8 |
| MIDI | Musical Instrument Digital Interface | 4 |
| MIPS | Million Instructions Per Second | 8 |
| MIS | Management Information System | 8 |
| MMS | Multimedia Messaging Service | 5 |
| MP3 | MPEG-1 Audio Layer-3 | 3 |
| MPEG | Moving Picture Experts Group | 4 |
| MTU | Maximum Transmission Unit | 6 |
| MVC | Model-View-Controller | 9 |
| NAT | Network Address Translation | 7 |
| NetBIOS | Network Basic Input/Output System | 8 |
| NFC | Near Field Communication | 5 |
| NIC | Network Interface Card | 7 |
| NINO | Nothing In, Nothing Out | 8 |
| NMS | Network Management System | 9 |
| NNTP | Network News Transfer Protocol | 10 |
| NOC | Network Operations Center | 8 |
| NOS | Network Operating System | 9 |
| NSP | Network Service Provider | 7 |
| NTFS | New Technology File System | 7 |
| NTP | Network Time Protocol | 9 |
| NUI | Natural User Interface | 7 |
| NVRAM | Non-Volatile Random Access Memory | 9 |
| OASIS | Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards | 6 |
| OCR | Optical Character Recognition | 5 |
| ODBC | Open Database Connectivity | 6 |
| OEM | Original Equipment Manufacturer | 7 |
| OLAP | Online Analytical Processing | 10 |
| OLE | Object Linking and Embedding | 8 |
| OLED | Organic Light Emitting Diode | 6 |
| OOP | Object-Oriented Programming | 8 |
| OSD | On Screen Display | 7 |
| OSPF | Open Shortest Path First | 10 |
| OTA | Over-The-Air | 8 |
| OTT | Over-the-top | 8 |
| P2P | Peer To Peer | 5 |
| PC | Personal Computer | 2 |
| PCB | Printed Circuit Board | 8 |
| PCI | Peripheral Component Interconnect | 7 |
| PCI-X | Peripheral Component Interconnect Extended | 8 |
| PCMCIA | Personal Computer Memory Card International Association | 9 |
| PDA | Personal Digital Assistant | 4 |
| PDF | Portable Document Format | 3 |
| PDU | Protocol Data Unit | 10 |
| PHP | Hypertext Preprocessor | 5 |
| PIM | Personal Information Manager | 7 |
| PMU | Power Management Unit | 8 |
| PNG | Portable Network Graphic | 7 |
| PoE | Power over Ethernet | 8 |
| PON | Passive Optical Network | 9 |
| POP3 | Post Office Protocol | 5 |
| POST | Power On Self Test | 8 |
| PPC | Pay Per Click | 8 |
| PPGA | Plastic Pin Grid Array | 10 |
| PPI | Pixels Per Inch | 6 |
| PPL | Pay Per Lead | 7 |
| PPM | Pages Per Minute | 4 |
| PPP | Point to Point Protocol | 6 |
| PPPoE | Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet | 6 |
| PPS | Pay Per Sale | 6 |
| PPTP | Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol | 8 |
| PRAM | Parameter Random Access Memory | 9 |
| PROM | Programmable Read-Only Memory | 8 |
| PS/2 | Personal System/2 | 6 |
| PUM | Potentially Unwanted Modification | 8 |
| PUP | Potentially Unwanted Program | 7 |
| QBE | Query By Example | 8 |
| RAID | Redundant Array of Independent Disks | 8 |
| RAM | Random Access Memory | 3 |
| RDBMS | Relational Database Management System | 8 |
| RDF | Resource Description Framework | 8 |
| RDRAM | Rambus Dynamic Random Access Memory | 9 |
| RFID | Radio-Frequency Identification | 7 |
| RGB | Red Green Blue | 4 |
| RIP | Routing Information Protocol | 10 |
| RISC | Reduced Instruction Set Computing | 9 |
| ROM | Read-Only Memory | 6 |
| RPC | Remote Procedure Call | 9 |
| RPM | Revenue Per 1,000 Impressions | 7 |
| RSS | RDF Site Summary | 5 |
| RTE | Runtime Environment | 9 |
| RTF | Rich Text Format | 5 |
| RUP | Rational Unified Process | 10 |
| SaaS | Software as a Service | 8 |
| SAN | Storage Area Network | 8 |
| Sass | Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets | 7 |
| SATA | Serial Advanced Technology Attachment | 6 |
| SCSI | Small Computer System Interface | 7 |
| SD | Secure Digital | 4 |
| SDK | Software Development Kit | 7 |
| SDLC | System Development Lifecycle | 8 |
| SDRAM | Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory | 6 |
| SDS | Software-Defined Storage | 9 |
| SDSL | Symmetric Digital Subscriber Line | 8 |
| SEO | Search Engine Optimization | 6 |
| SERP | Search Engine Results Page | 6 |
| SIM Card | Subscriber Identification Module Card | 6 |
| SIMM | Single In-Line Memory Module | 7 |
| SIP | Session Initiation Protocol | 9 |
| SKU | Stock Keeping Unit | 5 |
| SLA | Software License or Service Level Agreement | 4 |
| SLI | Scalable Link Interface | 9 |
| SMART | Self-Monitoring Analysis And Reporting Technology | 9 |
| SMB | Server Message Block | 9 |
| SMM | Social Media Marketing | 6 |
| SMS | Short Message Service | 7 |
| SMTP | Simple Mail Transfer Protocol | 6 |
| SNMP | Simple Network Management Protocol | 8 |
| SO-DIMM | Small Outline Dual In-Line Memory Module | 7 |
| SOA | Service Oriented Architecture | 9 |
| SOAP | Simple Object Access Protocol | 9 |
| SoC | System On a Chip | 8 |
| SPX | Sequenced Packet Exchange | 10 |
| SQL | Structured Query Language | 7 |
| SRAM | Static Random Access Memory | 7 |
| SRE | Site Reliability Engineering | 9 |
| sRGB | Standard Red Green Blue | 8 |
| SSD | Solid State Drive | 4 |
| SSH | Secure Shell | 7 |
| SSID | Service Set Identifier | 9 |
| SSL | Secure Sockets Layer | 6 |
| TCP | Transmission Control Protocol | 7 |
| TCP/IP | Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol | 7 |
| TFT | Thin-Film Transistor | 9 |
| TIFF | Tagged Image File Format | 7 |
| TLS | Transport Layer Security | 8 |
| TTL | Time To Live | 9 |
| TWAIN | Toolkit Without An Informative Name | 8 |
| UAT | User Acceptance Testing | 8 |
| UDDI | Universal Description Discovery and Integration | 10 |
| UDP | User Datagram Protocol | 9 |
| UEFI | Unified Extensible Firmware Interface | 8 |
| UGC | User Generated Content | 4 |
| UICC | Universal Integrated Circuit Card | 8 |
| UML | Unified Modeling Language | 9 |
| UNC | Universal Naming Convention | 8 |
| UPnP | Universal Plug and Play | 8 |
| UPS | Uninterruptible Power Supply | 7 |
| URI | Uniform Resource Identifier | 7 |
| URL | Uniform Resource Locator | 3 |
| USB | Universal Serial Bus | 2 |
| UTF | Unicode Transformation Format | 8 |
| UUID | Universally Unique Identifier | 7 |
| UWP | Universal Windows Platform | 7 |
| VCI | Virtual Channel Identifier | 10 |
| VDSL | Very High Bit Rate Digital Subscriber Line | 7 |
| VDU | Visual Display Unit | 8 |
| VFAT | Virtual File Allocation Table | 8 |
| VGA | Video Graphics Array | 5 |
| VIP | Virtual IP Address | 8 |
| VLAN | Virtual Local Area Network | 8 |
| VLB | VESA Local Bus | 10 |
| VLE | Virtual Learning Environment | 7 |
| VoIP | Voice Over Internet Protocol | 6 |
| VPI | Virtual Path Identifier | 10 |
| VPN | Virtual Private Network | 8 |
| VPS | Virtual Private Server | 8 |
| VRAM | Video Random Access Memory | 7 |
| VRML | Virtual Reality Modeling Language | 7 |
| W3C | World Wide Web Consortium | 7 |
| WAIS | Wide Area Information Server | 10 |
| WAMP | Windows, Apache, MySQL, and PHP | 8 |
| WAN | Wide Area Network | 5 |
| WDDM | Windows Display Driver Model | 9 |
| WEP | Wired Equivalent Privacy | 7 |
| WIMP | Windows, Icons, Menus, Pointer | 8 |
| WINS | Windows Internet Name Service | 9 |
| WLAN | Wireless Local Area Network | 6 |
| WPA | Wi-Fi Protected Access | 8 |
| WPA2 | Wi-Fi Protected Access 2 | 8 |
| WWW | World Wide Web | 2 |
| WYSIWYG | What You See Is What You Get | 6 |
| XAML | Extensible Application Markup Language | 8 |
| XHTML | Extensible Hypertext Markup Language | 6 |
| XML | Extensible Markup Language | 6 |
| XMP | Extensible Metadata Platform | 8 |
| XSLT | Extensible Style Sheet Language Transformation | 8 |
| Y2K | Year 2000 | 6 |
| ZIF | Zero Insertion Force | 8 |