CompTIA Cloud+ CV0-003 All Acronyms Flashcards
| Acronym | Definition |
|---|---|
| HRIS | Human Resources Information System |
| HTTPS | Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure |
| I/O | Input/Output |
| IaaS | Infrastructure as a Service |
| IaC | Infrastructure as Code |
| IAM | Identity and Access Management |
| ICMP | Internet Control Management Protocol |
| IDS | Intrusion Detection System |
| IFCP | Internet Fibre Channel Protocol |
| IGRP | Interior Gateway Routing Protocol |
| IOPS | Input/Output Operations Per Second |
| IoT | Internet of Things |
| IP | Internet Protocol |
| IPAM | IP Address Management |
| IPC | Instructions Per Cycle |
| IPMI | Intelligent Platform Management Interface |
| IPS | Intrusion Prevention System |
| IPSec | IP Security |
| IQN | iSCSI Qualified Name |
| iSCSI | Internet Small Computer System Interface |
| ISNS | Internet Storage Name Service |
| ISP | Internet Service Provider |
| JBOD | Just a Bunch Of Disks |
| JSON | JavaScript Object Notation |
| KVM | Keyboard Video Mouse |
| L2TP | Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol |
| LAN | Local Area Network |
| LDAP | Lightweight Directory Access Protocol |
| LTS | Long-Term Support |
| LUN | Logical Unit Number |
| MAC | Mandatory Access Control |
| MBR | Master Boot Record |
| MDF | Main Distribution Facility |
| MFA | Multi-Factor Authentication |
| ML | Machine Learning |
| MPIO | MultiPath I/O |
| MPLS | Multiprotocol Label Switching |
| MSP | Managed Service Provider |
| MFTP | Managed File Transfer Protocol |
| MTBF | Mean Time Between Failure |
| MTTF | Mean Time To Failure |
| MTTR | Mean Time To Repair |
| MTU | Maximum Transmission Unit |
| NAC | Network Access Control |
| NAS | Network Attached Storage |
| NAT | Network Address Translation |
| NFS | Network File System |
| NFV | Network Function Virtualization |
| NIC | Network Interface Controller |
| NIDS | Network Intrusion Detection System |
| NIPS | Network-based Intrusion Prevention System |
| NIS | Network Information Service |
| NOC | Network Operations Center |
| NPIV | N_Port ID Virtualization |
| NS | Name Server |
| NTFS | New Technology File System |
| NTP | Network Time Protocol |
| NTS | Network Time Security |
| NVGRE | Network Virtualization using Generic Routing Encapsulation |
| NVMe | Non-Volatile Memory Express |
| NVMe-oF | NVMe over Fabrics |
| ODBC | Open Database Connectivity |
| OLA | Operational Level Agreement |
| OS | Operating System |
| OSI | Open Systems Interconnection |
| OSPF | Open Shortest Path First |
| P2P | Physical to Physical |
| P2V | Physical to Virtual |
| PaaS | Platform as a Service |
| PAM | Privileged Access Management |
| PAT | Port Address Translation |
| PBX | Private (or Public) Branch Exchange |
| PCI | Peripheral Component Interconnect |
| PCIe | Peripheral Component Interconnect Express |
| PII | Personally Identifiable Information |
| PIT | Point-in-Time (backup or snapshot) |
| PKI | Public Key Infrastructure |
| PPTP | Point-to-point Tunneling Protocol |
| QA | Quality Assurance |
| QoS | Quality of Service |
| RAID | Redundant Array of Independent/Inexpensive Disks |
| RAM | Random Access Memory |
| RBAC | Role-Based Access Control |
| RDP | Remote Desktop Protocol |
| ReFS | Resilient File System |
| REST | Representational State Transfer |
| RPO | Recovery Point Objective |
| RTO | Recovery Time Objectives |
| SaaS | Software as a Service |
| SAML | Security Assertion Markup Language |
| SAN | Storage Area Network |
| SAS | Serial Attached SCSI |
| SATA | Serial Advanced Technology Attachment |
| SCP | Session Control Protocol |
| SCSI | Small Computer System Interface |
| SDLC | Software Development Life Cycle |
| SDN | Software-Defined Network |
| SDS | Software-Defined Storage |
| SDWAN | Software-defined Wide-Area Network |
| SFTP | Secure FTP |
| SHA | Secure Hash Algorithm |
| SIEM | Security Information and Event Management |
| SIP | Session Initiation Protocol |
| SLA | Service Level Agreement |
| SMB | Server Message Block |
| SMT | Simultaneous Multi-Threading |
| SMTP | Simple Mail Transfer Protocol |
| SNMP | Simple Network Management Protocol |
| SOA | Start of Authority |
| SOAP | Simple Object Access Protocol |
| SoC | System-on-Chip |
| SPF | Sender Protection Framework |
| SQL | Structured Query Language |
| SRE | Site Reliability Engineer |
| SR-IOV | Single-Root Input/ Output Virtualization |
| SSD | Solid State Disk |
| SSH | Secure Shell |
| SSL | Secure Sockets Layer |
| SSO | Single Sign-On |
| STT | Stateless Transport Tunneling |
| TCO | Total Cost of Operations |
| TCP | Transmission Control Protocol |
| TKIP | Temporal Key Integrity Protocol |
| TLS | Transport Layer Security |
| TPM | Trusted Platform Module |
| TTL | Time to Live |
| UAT | User Acceptance Testing |
| UDP | Universal Datagram Protocol |
| UPS | Universal Power Supply |
| URL | Uniform Resource Locator |
| V2P | Virtual to Physical |
| V2V | Virtual to Virtual |
| vADC | Virtual ADC |
| VAT | Virtual Allocation Table |
| vCPU | Virtual CPU |
| VDI | Virtual Desktop Infrastructure |
| vGPU | Virtual Graphics Processing Unit |
| VHD | Virtual Hard Disk |
| VLAN | Virtual LAN |
| VM | Virtual Machine |
| VMFS | Virtual Machine File System |
| VNC | Virtual Network Computing |
| vNIC | Virtual NIC |
| VoIP | Voice over IP |
| VPC | Virtual Private Cloud |
| VPN | Virtual Private Network |
| vRAM | Virtual RAM |
| vSAN | Virtual SAN |
| vSwitch | Virtual Switch |
| VTL | Virtual Tape Library |
| VXLAN | Virtual extensible LAN |
| WAF | Web Application Firewall |
| WAN | Wide Area Network |
| WMI | Windows Management Implementation |
| WWNN | World Wide Node Name |
| WWPN | World Wide Port Name |
| XaaS | anything as a Service |
| XSS | Cross-site Scripting |
| YAML | Yet Another Markup Language |
| ZFS | Z File System |
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VMFS
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Virtual Machine File System
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STT
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Stateless Transport Tunneling
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VLAN
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Virtual LAN
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WAN
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Wide Area Network
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RDP
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Remote Desktop Protocol
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VDI
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Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
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IPS
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Intrusion Prevention System
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SMB
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Server Message Block
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MSP
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Managed Service Provider
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NAC
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Network Access Control
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SQL
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Structured Query Language
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IDS
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Intrusion Detection System
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QoS
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Quality of Service
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PCIe
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Peripheral Component Interconnect Express
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RBAC
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Role-Based Access Control
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SATA
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Serial Advanced Technology Attachment
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SRE
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Site Reliability Engineer
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V2V
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Virtual to Virtual
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NVMe
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Non-Volatile Memory Express
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SSO
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Single Sign-On
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MFTP
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Managed File Transfer Protocol
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LUN
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Logical Unit Number
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SaaS
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Software as a Service
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WMI
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Windows Management Implementation
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TTL
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Time to Live
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IOPS
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Input/Output Operations Per Second
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ReFS
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Resilient File System
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MTTF
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Mean Time To Failure
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PPTP
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Point-to-point Tunneling Protocol
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IaaS
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Infrastructure as a Service
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PBX
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Private (or Public) Branch Exchange
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RAID
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Redundant Array of Independent/Inexpensive Disks
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HRIS
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Human Resources Information System
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I/O
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Input/Output
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ODBC
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Open Database Connectivity
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SMTP
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Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
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HTTPS
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Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure
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OLA
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Operational Level Agreement
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MPLS
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Multiprotocol Label Switching
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PCI
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Peripheral Component Interconnect
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PAM
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Privileged Access Management
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SCP
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Session Control Protocol
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NTS
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Network Time Security
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RTO
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Recovery Time Objectives
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SNMP
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Simple Network Management Protocol
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TPM
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Trusted Platform Module
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REST
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Representational State Transfer
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SHA
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Secure Hash Algorithm
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NTP
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Network Time Protocol
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NVGRE
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Network Virtualization using Generic Routing Encapsulation
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PII
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Personally Identifiable Information
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vSwitch
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Virtual Switch
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IoT
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Internet of Things
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ISNS
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Internet Storage Name Service
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MTTR
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Mean Time To Repair
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NOC
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Network Operations Center
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SLA
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Service Level Agreement
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vADC
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Virtual ADC
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NFS
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Network File System
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NIDS
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Network Intrusion Detection System
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TCP
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Transmission Control Protocol
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L2TP
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Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol
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OSPF
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Open Shortest Path First
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vNIC
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Virtual NIC
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IPMI
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Intelligent Platform Management Interface
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LAN
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Local Area Network
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NPIV
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N_Port ID Virtualization
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IAM
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Identity and Access Management
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MPIO
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MultiPath I/O
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NIPS
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Network-based Intrusion Prevention System
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IPSec
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IP Security
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vCPU
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Virtual CPU
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KVM
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Keyboard Video Mouse
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PIT
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Point-in-Time (backup or snapshot)
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QA
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Quality Assurance
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vRAM
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Virtual RAM
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IPC
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Instructions Per Cycle
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NTFS
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New Technology File System
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SAML
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Security Assertion Markup Language
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SSH
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Secure Shell
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MTU
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Maximum Transmission Unit
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WAF
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Web Application Firewall
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P2P
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Physical to Physical
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SPF
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Sender Protection Framework
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VHD
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Virtual Hard Disk
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MDF
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Main Distribution Facility
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P2V
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Physical to Virtual
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RAM
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Random Access Memory
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VPN
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Virtual Private Network
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YAML
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Yet Another Markup Language
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SFTP
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Secure FTP
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vSAN
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Virtual SAN
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NFV
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Network Function Virtualization
Front
SSL
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Secure Sockets Layer
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IFCP
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Internet Fibre Channel Protocol
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PaaS
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Platform as a Service
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IaC
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Infrastructure as Code
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IPAM
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IP Address Management
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SSD
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Solid State Disk
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SDLC
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Software Development Life Cycle
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SDWAN
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Software-defined Wide-Area Network
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iSCSI
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Internet Small Computer System Interface
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SIEM
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Security Information and Event Management
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TLS
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Transport Layer Security
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SDS
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Software-Defined Storage
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SMT
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Simultaneous Multi-Threading
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OS
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Operating System
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XaaS
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anything as a Service
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XSS
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Cross-site Scripting
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IGRP
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Interior Gateway Routing Protocol
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URL
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Uniform Resource Locator
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SDN
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Software-Defined Network
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JSON
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JavaScript Object Notation
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NAT
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Network Address Translation
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VAT
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Virtual Allocation Table
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OSI
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Open Systems Interconnection
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JBOD
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Just a Bunch Of Disks
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SoC
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System-on-Chip
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V2P
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Virtual to Physical
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RPO
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Recovery Point Objective
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VNC
Back
Virtual Network Computing
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ICMP
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Internet Control Management Protocol
Front
IP
Back
Internet Protocol
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VXLAN
Back
Virtual extensible LAN
Front
MTBF
Back
Mean Time Between Failure
Front
SIP
Back
Session Initiation Protocol
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MFA
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Multi-Factor Authentication
Front
PAT
Back
Port Address Translation
Front
VM
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Virtual Machine
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WWNN
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World Wide Node Name
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TCO
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Total Cost of Operations
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NAS
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Network Attached Storage
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SAN
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Storage Area Network
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UDP
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Universal Datagram Protocol
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UPS
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Universal Power Supply
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TKIP
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Temporal Key Integrity Protocol
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ZFS
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Z File System
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ISP
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Internet Service Provider
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MAC
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Mandatory Access Control
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NIC
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Network Interface Controller
Front
LDAP
Back
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
Front
LTS
Back
Long-Term Support
Front
SCSI
Back
Small Computer System Interface
Front
SOA
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Start of Authority
Front
NS
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Name Server
Front
PKI
Back
Public Key Infrastructure
Front
NIS
Back
Network Information Service
Front
UAT
Back
User Acceptance Testing
Front
ML
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Machine Learning
Front
SR-IOV
Back
Single-Root Input/ Output Virtualization
Front
vGPU
Back
Virtual Graphics Processing Unit
Front
VoIP
Back
Voice over IP
Front
IQN
Back
iSCSI Qualified Name
Front
MBR
Back
Master Boot Record
Front
SAS
Back
Serial Attached SCSI
Front
NVMe-oF
Back
NVMe over Fabrics
Front
SOAP
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Simple Object Access Protocol
Front
VPC
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Virtual Private Cloud
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VTL
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Virtual Tape Library
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WWPN
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World Wide Port Name
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