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CCNA - Acronyms
Question | Answer |
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IP | Internet Protocol |
TCP | Transmission Control Protocol |
NIC | Network Interface Card (AKA LAN adaptor) |
HTTP | Hypertext Transport Protocol |
QoS | Quality of Service |
ISP | Internet Service Provider |
VoIP | Voice over Internet Protocol |
DoS | Denial of Service (attack) |
LAN | Local-Area Network |
WAN | Wide-Area Network |
TSP | Telecommunication Service Provider |
IEEE | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (standardized protocols) |
IETF | Internet Engineering Task Force (standardized protocols) |
OSI | Open Systems Interconnection model |
PDU | Protocol Data Unit (different at each layer) |
ISO | International Organization of Standardization |
DNS | Domain Name System |
SMTP | Simple Mail Transfer Protocol |
FTP | File Transfer Protocol |
RFC | Requests for Comments (define protocols) |
MPEG | Motion Picture Experts Group |
JPEG | Joint Photographic Experts Group |
TIFF | Tagged Image File Format |
GIF | Graphic Interchange Format |
P2P | Peer-to-Peer |
POP | Post Office Protocol |
HTTPS | Secure HTTP (has encryption) |
MUA | Mail User Agent |
MTA | Mail Transfer Agent |
MDA | Mail Delivery Agent |
SMB | Server Message Block |
IAC | Interpret as Command |
CLI | Command Line Interface |
VTY | Virtual Terminal |
UDP | User Datagram Protocol |
CLI | Command Line Interface |
GUI | Graphical User Interface |
SSH | Secure Shell protocol |