Full Name

Bibliographical Index

3DES

TRIPLE DES; Algorithm; Encryption technique for IPsec; Also see: DES;

[ORACLE MAGAZINE, 2002]

AAL5

ATM ADAPTATION LAYER 5

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

ABF

APPLICATION BY FORM

Computer Associates’ Ingres RDBMS

[WWW.CA.COM]

ABR

AREA BORDER ROUTER

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

AC

ALTERNATING CURRENT

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

ACE

ACTION CLASSIFICATION ENGINES

Intel’s IX Bus modular API

[A GUIDE TO NETWORK PROCESSOR, LINLEY GWENNAP & BOB WHEELER, MICRODESIGN, 2000]

ack

Acknowledge; ACK bit;

[Microsoft Press, 1997]

ACL

ACCESS CONTROL LIST

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

ACPI

ADVANCED CONFIGURATION AND POWER INTERFACE

Also see: WDM; Phoenix BIOS C1 ~ C4 states;

[MACHINE.INF / WINDOWS 98]; [WWW.ACPI.INFO; 2002];

AD

ACTIVE DIRECTORY;

[WINDOWS 2000 ADMINISTRATOR’S HANDBOOK, LINSENBARDT & STIGLER, 2000]

ADC

ADVANCED DATA CONNECTOR

[MICROSOFT PERSONAL WEB SERVER, V.4, RELEASE NOTES]

ADO

ACTIVEX DATA OBJECTS

[Desktop Applications with Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 : MCSD Training Kit
/ Microsoft Corporation, 1999]

ADSI

ACTIVE DIRECTORY SERVICE INTERFACES

[MICROSOFT PLATFORM SDK, FEB., 2001]

ADSL

ASYMMETRIC DIGITAL SUBSCRIBER LINE

[MCSE Training Kit – Microsoft Windows 2000 Server / Microsoft Corporation, 2000]

ADSU

ATM DATA SERVICE UNIT

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

AFC

ANTI-FERROMAGNETICALLY COUPLED

Media, also called pixie-dust; IBM’s lower power consumption with higher stability of data

AFI

AUTHORITY AND FORMAT IDENTIFIER

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

AFP

APPLETALK FILING PROTOCOL

[MCSE Training Kit – Microsoft Windows 2000 Server / Microsoft Corporation, 2000]

AGP

ACCELERATED GRAPHICS PORT

Graphics data which is transferred on PCI bus

[MICROSOFT COMPUTER DICTIONARY, 4^th Edition, 1999]

AIIM

ASSOCIATION FOR INFORMATION AND IMAGE MANAGEMENT

[MICROSOFT COMPUTER DICTIONARY, 4^th Edition, 1999]

AIM

ADVANCED INTEGRATION MODULE

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

AIM

ATM INTERFACE PROCESSOR

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

AIP

ATM INTERFACE PROCESSOR

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

AIS

ACCOUNTING INFORMATION SYSTEM

[ORACLE MAGAZINE, 2002]

AMD

advanced micro devices, inc.

[MICROSOFT COMPUTER DICTIONARY, 4^th Edition, 1999]

ANI

Automatic Number Identification

[WINDOWS 2000 ADMINISTRATOR’S HANDBOOK, LINSENBARDT & STIGLER, 2000]

ANI/CLI

ANI / Calling line identification

[WINDOWS 2000 ADMINISTRATOR’S HANDBOOK, LINSENBARDT & STIGLER, 2000]

ANSI

AMERICAN NATIONAL STANDARDS INSTITUTE; Also see: www.ansi.org

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

AO/DI

ALWAYS ON/DYNAMIC ISDN

[MILES IGNOTUS, BANGKOK POST, 9/5/01]

AOL

America Online

APE

APPLICATION PERFORMANCE EXPLORER

[Desktop Applications with Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 : MCSD Training Kit
/ Microsoft Corporation, 1999]

API

APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

APPC

ADVANCED PROGRAM TO PROGRAM COMMUNICATION

[MCSE Training Kit – Microsoft Windows 2000 Server / Microsoft Corporation, 2000]

APPN

ADVANCED PEER TO PEER NETWORK

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

AQ

ADVANCED QUEUING

[ORACLE MAGAZINE, 2002]

ARA

APPLETALK REMOTE ACCESS

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

ARAP

AppleTalk Remote Access Protocol

[WINDOWS 2000 ADMINISTRATOR’S HANDBOOK, LINSENBARDT & STIGLER, 2000]

ARC

ADVANCED RISC COMPUTING; ARC path = scsi(1)disk(2)rdisk(3)partition(4)\windowName

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]; Also see: ABCDEFG$_INI.HTM;

ARP

ADDRESS RESOLUTION PROTOCOL

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

ARS

AUTOMATIC ROUTE SELECTION

A system / PC Console based super hybrid digital PABX

[PANASONIC SYSTEMS, 2001, www.panasonic-th.com , BANGKOK POST]

AS

AUTONOMOUS SYSTEM

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

ASCII

AMERICAN STANDARD CODE FOR INFORMATION INTERCHANGE; [pronounce As´ke ];

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

ASD

AUTOMATIC SKIP DRIVER

[TRIER EXAMS; V.2.0; 1997]

www.trierexams.com

ASF

ADVANCED STREAMING FORMAT

PowerPoint presentation broadcasting

[MICROSOFT OFFICE XP]

ASIC

APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUIT; In 2003, Adaptec's Gigabit Ethernet adapter with TOE/ASIC to lower latency by 40% and Red Hat Linux 7 & 8 support;

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL] [EWEEK, AUGUST, 2003]

ASIMO

Advanced Step in Innovative MObility;  HONDA

[Newsweek, 2001]

ASP

APPLICATION SERVICE PROVIDER

[Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Bangkok Post, 2001]

ASP

ACTIVE SERVER PAGES

For ASP implementation, see ACCHTML 4 tool; See: *.asp

[Desktop Applications with Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 : MCSD Training Kit
/ Microsoft Corporation, 1999]

ASPI

Advanced SCSI Programming Interface

[MICROSOFT COMPUTER DICTIONARY, 4^th Edition, 1999]

ASR

AUTOMATIC SERVER RESTART

www.sun.com

ATA

ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY ATTACHMENT

Also known as IDE

[MICROSOFT COMPUTER DICTIONARY, 4^th Edition, 1999]

ATCP

APPLETALK CONTROL PROTOCOL

[WINDOWS 2000 ADMINISTRATOR’S HANDBOOK, LINSENBARDT & STIGLER, 2000]

ATG

ADDRESS TRANSLATION GATEWAY

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

ATG

ART TECHNOLOGY GROUP

[ORACLE MAGAZINE, 2002]

ATL

ACTIVE TEMPLATE LIBRARY

[Desktop Applications with Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 : MCSD Training Kit
/ Microsoft Corporation, 1999]

ATM

ASYNCHRONOUS TRANSFER MODE

[MCSE Training Kit – Microsoft Windows 2000 Server / Microsoft Corporation, 2000]

ATM CES

ATM CIRCUIT EMULATION SERVICE

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

AUI

ATTACHMENT UNIT INTERFACE

[MCSE Training Kit – Microsoft Windows 2000 Server / Microsoft Corporation, 2000]

AURP

APPLETALK UPDATE BASED ROUTING PROTOCOL

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

AVI

AUDIO VIDEO INTERLEAVED; Also see: VfW

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

AWG

AMERICAN WIRE GAUGE

[MCSE Training Kit – Microsoft Windows 2000 Server / Microsoft Corporation, 2000]

AWT

abstract Window Toolkit; AWT and Swing GUI are core of JFC;

[JAVA 2 COMPLETE, SYBEX, 1999]

BAN

BOUNDARY ACCESS NODE

Also see: BNN

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

BASIC

BEGINNER’S ALL-PURPOSE SYMBOLIC INSTRUCTION CODE

Developed by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz at Dartmouth College, USA in 1960s.

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

BBS

BULLETIN BOARD SYSTEM

[MCSE Training Kit – Microsoft Windows 2000 Server / Microsoft Corporation, 2000]

BC4J

BUSINESS COMPONENTS FOR JAVA; oRACLE 9I JDEVELOPER

[ORACLE MAGAZINE, 2002]

BCP

Bulk copy program

[MICROSOFT SQL SERVER 7.0 ADMINISTRATOR’S POCKET CONSULTANT, stanek, 1999]

BDC

backup Domain controller

See PDC;

[WINDOWS NT IN A NUTSHELL, pearce, 1997]

BDK

Beans development kit

[JAVA 2 COMPLETE, SYBEX, 1999]

BDL

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT LANGUAGE

[ORACLE MAGAZINE, 2002]

BECN

BACKWARD EXPLICIT CONGESTION NOTIFICATION

Also see: FECN; Congestion protocol

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

BEL

BELL

[Microsoft Press, 1997]

BGP

BORDER GATEWAY PROTOCOL

Communities

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

BIA

BURNED IN ADDRESS

Manufacturer address

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

BIOS

BASIC INPUT/OUTPUT SYSTEM

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

BISDN

BROADBAND INTEGRATED SERVICES DIGITAL NETWORK

[MCSE Training Kit – Microsoft Windows 2000 Server / Microsoft Corporation, 2000]

BIT

BINARY DIGIT

[MICORSOFT PRESS, 1997]

BITS

BACKGROUND INTELLIGENT TRANSFER SERVICE; In 2004, BITS becomes in v.2;

[MICROSOFT PLATFORM SDK, FEB., 2001]

BLIT

Block Image Transfer

[JAVA 2 COMPLETE, SYBEX, 1999]

BMP

BEAN MANAGED PERSISTENCE; ALSO SEE: CMP

[ORACLE MAGAZINE, 2002]

BNF

BACKUS-NAUR FORM

Fusion between computer and art by “Blaise” language, “meta-language” to develop compiler

[PING NA THALANG, DATABASE, BANGKOK POST, 2001]

BNN

BOUNDARY NETWORK NODE

Also see: BAN

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

BOD

BANDWIDTH ON DEMAND

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

BPS

BITS PER SECOND

BRI

BAsic rate interface

ISDN

[WINDOWS 2000 ADMINISTRATOR’S HANDBOOK, LINSENBARDT & STIGLER, 2000]

BS

Backspace

[Microsoft Press, 1997]

BSC

backup site controller

[MICROSOFT PERSONAL WEB SERVER, V.4, RELEASE NOTES]

BSD

BERKELEY SOFTWARE DISTRIBUTION

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

BUS

BROADCAST AND UNKNOWN SERVER

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

BYP/INP

Bypass/Inhibit Presentation

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

BYTE

BINARY TERM

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

CA

Certificate authority; In Win 2003, PKI supports cross-certification to constraint subordinated CAs; More constraints mean better control over subordinate CAs;

[WINDOWS 2000 ADMINISTRATOR’S HANDBOOK, LINSENBARDT & STIGLER, 2000] [.NET MAGAZINE, AUGUST, 2003]

[MICROSOFT PERSONAL WEB SERVER, V.4, RELEASE NOTES]

[WWW.NEC-GLOBAL.COM/FEATURES/ WORDDEFINER/KEY.HTML; 2002]

CABARC

CABINET ARCHIVER

[Desktop Applications with Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 : MCSD Training Kit
/ Microsoft Corporation, 1999]

CAD

COMPUTER AIDED DRAFTING

[MICROSOFT EXCEL 2002]

CAE

CLIENT APPLICATION ENABLE; IBM DB2 UDB v.5

[WWW.IBM.COM; 2002]

CAL

client access licenses

[MICROSOFT PERSONAL WEB SERVER, V.4, RELEASE NOTES]

CAN

Cancel

[Microsoft Press, 1997]

CAP

COMPETITIVE ACCESS PROVIDER

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

CAPICOM

CRYPTOAPI COM

[MICROSOFT PLATFORM SDK, FEB., 2001]

CAPS LOCK

CAPITAL LETTERS LOCK

[STANDARD KEYBOARD]

CBO

COST BASED OPTIMIZER; Also see: RBO;

[ORACLE MAGAZINE, 2002]

CC

CARBON COPIES

[Halvorson and Young, 1999]

CCA

CLIENT CONFIGURATION ASSISTANT

$p$g\db2cca <enter>

IBM DB2 UDB GUI

[www.ibm.com]

CCEP

COMMERCIAL COMSEC ENDORSEMENT PROGRAM

[MCSE Training Kit – Microsoft Windows 2000 Server / Microsoft Corporation, 2000]

CCITT

SEE ITTCC

CCO

Cisco Connection Online

[http://www.cisco.com/univercd/ home/home.htm]

CD

CARRIER DETECT

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

CD

COMPACT DISC

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

CDFS

Compact Disc File System

[WINDOWS 2000 ADMINISTRATOR’S HANDBOOK, LINSENBARDT & STIGLER, 2000]

CDMA

CODE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS;

[MICROSOFT COMPUTER DICTIONARY, 4^th Edition, 1999]

CDO

COLLABORATION DATA OBJECT

CDO is COM

[MICROSOFT PLATFORM SDK, FEB., 2001]

CDP

CISCO DISCOVERY PROTOCOL

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

CDPD

CELLULAR DIGITAL PACKET DATA

[MCSE Training Kit – Microsoft Windows 2000 Server / Microsoft Corporation, 2000]

CD-ROM

COMPACT DISC READ ONLY MEMORY

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

CD-RW

Compact disc rewritable

[LG Advertisement, Pantip Plaza, 2001]

CEF

CISCO EXPRESS FORWARDING

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

CERT

COMPUTER EMERGENCY RESPONSE TEAM;

[WWW.CNN.COM; News, 7/31/01]

CF

COMPACT FLASH

Non-volatile memory device; Mostly used for digital camera; Sony has its own product/standard called memory stick;  

CF

CFRAD

Also see: LF

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

CFML

COLDFUSION MARKUP LANGUAGE

See: *.cfm

[COLDFUSION STUDIO, ALLAIRE CORPORATION, 2000] www.allaire.com

CFX

????

[COLDFUSION STUDIO, ALLAIRE CORPORATION, 2000] www.allaire.com

CGA

COLOR GRAPHICS ADAPTER

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

CGI

COMMON GATEWAY INTERFACE

[Desktop Applications with Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 : MCSD Training Kit
/ Microsoft Corporation, 1999]

CHAP

Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol

[WINDOWS NT IN A NUTSHELL, pearce, 1997]

CICS IA

CICS INTERDEPENDENCY ANALYZER

[ISOURCE.IBM.COM; 2002]

CICS PA

CICS PERFORMANCE ANALYZER; V.1.2

[ISOURCE.IBM.COM; 2002]

CIP

CHANNEL INTERFACE PROCESSOR

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

CIP2

CHANNEL INTERFACE PROCESSOR 2

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

CIR

COMMITTED INFORMATION RATE

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

CIS / NTFS; CIS / CIFS;

CISC

COMPLEX INSTRUCTION SET COMPUTING

Assembly level implementation to a processor; 8 bit , 16 bit, 32 bit, ... ;

[MCSE Training Kit – Microsoft Windows 2000 Server / Microsoft Corporation, 2000]

CJK

CHINESE JAPANESE KOREAN

[WWW.NJSTAR.COM]

CL

CONTROL LANGUAGE

IBM’s OS/400 CL commands

[WWW.IBM.COM]

CLI

Call Level Interface

[JAVA 2 COMPLETE, SYBEX, 1999]

CLNP

CONNECTIONLESS NETWORK PROTOCOL

ISO 8473

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

CLR

COMMON LANGUAGE RUNTIME; Security rules;

[MSDN.MICROSOFT.COM]

CMIP

COMMON MANAGEMENT INTERFACE PROTOCOL

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

CMIS

COMMON MANAGEMENT INTERFACE SERVICE

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

CMNS

CONNECTION MODE NETWORK SERVICE

For X.25 / NSAP

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

CMOS

COMPLEMENTARY METAL OXIDE SEMICONDUCTOR;  

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

CMOS RAM

COMPLEMENTARY METAL OXIDE SEMICONDUCTOR RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

CMP

CONTAINER MANAGED PERSISTENCE; Also see: bmp

[ORACLE MAGAZINE, 2002]

CN

connected network

[MICROSOFT PERSONAL WEB SERVER, V.4, RELEASE NOTES]

CNAME

CANONICAL NAME

DNS;

[TRIER EXAMS © 1997 V.2.0]

www.trierexams.com

COBOL

COMMON BUSINESS ORIENTED LANGUAGE

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

CODASYL

CONFERENCE ON DATA SYSTEMS LANGUAGES

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

COM

COMMUNICATIONS PORT

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

COM

COMPONENT OBJECT MODEL

(Add-ins);  For Internet: use CDO

[Desktop Applications with Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 : MCSD Training Kit
/ Microsoft Corporation, 1999]

CORBA

COMMON OBJECT REQUEST BROKER ARCHITECTURE

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

CORBA COS

COMMON OBJECT REQUEST BROKER ARCHITECTURE COMMON OBJECT SERVICES

[JAVA 2 COMPLETE, SYBEX, 1999]

COT

COMMAND-TEXT

CP

CODE PAGE

[MICROSOFT EXCEL 2002]

CP/M

CONTROL PROGRAM MONITOR

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

CPA

CHANNEL PORT ADAPTER

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

CPI

Characters Per Inch

[Microsoft Press, 1997]

CPP

COMBINET PACKET PROTOCOL

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

CPS

Characters Per Second

[Microsoft Press, 1997]

CPU

CENTRAL PROCESSING UNIT

[Microsoft Press, 1997]

CR

Carriage Return

CRC

Cyclic Redundancy Check

[WINDOWS 2000 ADMINISTRATOR’S HANDBOOK, LINSENBARDT & STIGLER, 2000]

CRM

INTERNET AND WIRELESS BASED CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT

Computer Associates’ software automation for web-browser and WAP equipments; launched in July, 2001

[IN BRIEF, BANGKOK POST, 2001] [WWW.NECTHAI.CO.TH; 2002]; Siebel eBusiness;

CRT

CATHODE RAY TUBE

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

CSC

CLOCK AND SCHEDULER CARD

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

CSID

CALLING STATION ID

[BITWARE, COMPUTER ASSOCIATES INTERNATIONAL, 2000]

CSLIP

COMPRESSED SLIP

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

CSMA/CA

CARRIER SENSE MULTIPLE ACCESS WITH COLLISION AVOIDANCE

[MCSE Training Kit – Microsoft Windows 2000 Server / Microsoft Corporation, 2000]

CSMA/CD

CARRIER SENSE MULTIPLE ACCESS WITH COLLISION DETECTION

[MCSE Training Kit – Microsoft Windows 2000 Server / Microsoft Corporation, 2000]

CSNA

CIP SYSTEM NETWORK ARCHITECTURE

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

CSNW

Client Services for NetWare

[WINDOWS NT IN A NUTSHELL, pearce, 1997]

CSP

Control Sequence Prefix

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

CSS

CASCADING STYLE SHEET

v.1.0 Formatting; v.2.0 Positioning; HTML App., developed by W3C; See: *.css

[MICROSOFT FRONTPAGE; 2002]

CT3IP

CHANNELIZED T3 INTERFACE PROCESSOR

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

world line;

CTI

COMPUTER TELEPHONY INTEGRATION

[ISOURCE.IBM.COM; 2002]

CTS

CLEAR TO SEND

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

CU1

Customer Use 1

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

CU3

Customer use 3

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

DACL

DISCRETIONARY ACCESS CONTROL LIST

[WINDOWS 2000 ADMINISTRATOR’S HANDBOOK, LINSENBARDT & STIGLER, 2000]

DAO

DATA ACCESS OBJECT

[Desktop Applications with Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 : MCSD Training Kit
/ Microsoft Corporation, 1999]

DAS

DUAL ATTACHMENT STATION

Also see: SAS; multi-mode FDDI

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

DAT

Digital audio tape

[MICROSOFT SQL SERVER 7.0 ADMINISTRATOR’S POCKET CONSULTANT, stanek, 1999]

DBA

Database administrator

[MICROSOFT SQL SERVER 7.0 ADMINISTRATOR’S POCKET CONSULTANT, stanek, 1999]

DBCA

DATABASE CONFIGURATION ASSISTANT

[ORACLE MAGAZINE, 2002]

DBO

DATABASE OPERATOR

[ORACLE MAGAZINE, 2002]

DBO

Database Owner

[MICROSOFT SQL SERVER 7.0 ADMINISTRATOR’S POCKET CONSULTANT, stanek, 1999]

DC

DIRECT CURRENT

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

DC

Domain controller

[WINDOWS 2000 ADMINISTRATOR’S HANDBOOK, LINSENBARDT & STIGLER, 2000]

DC1

Device Control 1

[Microsoft Press, 1997]

DC2

Device Control 2

[Microsoft Press, 1997]

DC3

Device Control 3

[Microsoft Press, 1997]

DC4

Device Control 4

[Microsoft Press, 1997]

DCA

DOCUMENT CONTENT ARCHITECTURE

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

DCC

DATA COUNTRY CODE

Also see: ICD

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

DCE

DATA COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT; Part of RS 232 specification;

[MCSE Training Kit – Microsoft Windows 2000 Server / Microsoft Corporation, 2000]

DCOM

DISTRIBUTED COM

[Desktop Applications with Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 : MCSD Training Kit
/ Microsoft Corporation, 1999]

DDA

DIAL ON DEMAND ACCESS

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

DDC

DISPLAY DATA CHANNEL

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

DDE

DYNAMIC DATA EXCHANGE

[Desktop Applications with Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 : MCSD Training Kit
/ Microsoft Corporation, 1999]

ddl

DATA DEFINITION LANGUAGE

[MICROSOFT SQL SERVER 7.0 ADMINISTRATOR’S POCKET CONSULTANT, stanek, 1999]

DDNS

DYNAMIC DOMAIN NAME SYSTEM; In 2005, DDNS serivce providers are DynDNS.org, TZO.com, ... ;

[WINDOWS 2000 ADMINISTRATOR’S HANDBOOK, LINSENBARDT & STIGLER, 2000]

DDR

DIAL ON DEMAND ROUTING

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

DDR

DOUBLE DATA RATE;

[Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Bangkok Post, 2001]; [www.amd.com]

DDV

DIALOG DATA VALIDATION

[Desktop Applications with Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 : MCSD Training Kit
/ Microsoft Corporation, 1999]

DDX

DIALOG DATA EXCHANGE

[Desktop Applications with Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 : MCSD Training Kit
/ Microsoft Corporation, 1999]

DE

DISCARD ELIGIBLE

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

DEC

DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORPORATION

[THIRAVUDH KHOMAN, DATABASE, BANGKOK POST, 2001]

DEL

Delete

[Microsoft Press, 1997]

DEP

dependent client

[MICROSOFT PERSONAL WEB SERVER, V.4, RELEASE NOTES]

DEQUE

DOUBLE ENDED QUEUE

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

DES

DATA ENCRYPTION STANDARD; DES = 56bit; 3DES = (112bit || 168bit);

[MCSE Training Kit – Microsoft Windows 2000 Server / Microsoft Corporation, 2000]; [CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

DFS

Distributed File System;

[WINDOWS 2000 ADMINISTRATOR’S HANDBOOK, LINSENBARDT & STIGLER, 2000]

DFT

DESIGN FOR TESTABILITY

[http://www.snug-universal.org] (9/3/01);

DFU

DATA FILE UTILITY; ISERIES PROGRAMMING FACILITIES

[ISOURCE.IBM.COM; 2002]

DHCP

DYNAMIC HOST CONFIGURATION PROTOCOL;

[WINDOWS NT IN A NUTSHELL, pearce, 1997]

DHTML

DYNAMIC HTML

[Desktop Applications with Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 : MCSD Training Kit
/ Microsoft Corporation, 1999]

DIA

DOCUMENT INTERCHANGE ARCHITECTURE

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

DIB

DIRECTORY INFORMATION BASE

DIB is maintained by DSA in X500 system

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997] 

DIB

DEVICE INDEPENDENT BITMAP

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

DIF

DATA INTERCHANGE FORMAT

[MICROSOFT EXCEL 2002]

DIMM

DUAL INLINE MEMORY MODULE

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

DIN

DEUTSCH INDUSTRIE NORM

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

DIP

DUAL IN-LINE PACKAGE;

SWITCH

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

DIX

DIGITAL INTEL XEROX CONNECTOR

[MCSE Training Kit – Microsoft Windows 2000 Server / Microsoft Corporation, 2000]

DLC

DATA LINK CONTROL PROTOCOL;

[MICROSOFT COMPUTER DICTIONARY, 4^th Edition, 1999]

DLCI

DATA LINK CONNECTION INDENTIFIER

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

DLE

Data Length Escape

[Microsoft Press, 1997]

DLL

DYNAMIC LINK LIBRARY

[Desktop Applications with Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 : MCSD Training Kit
/ Microsoft Corporation, 1999]

DLP

DIGITAL LIGHT PROCESSING

Compaq’s MP1400, 2800 projectors

[IT CITY – COMPAQ AD., 2001]

DLSW+

DATA LINK SWITCHING PLUS

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

DMA

DIRECT MEMORY ACCESS

[MCSE Training Kit – Microsoft Windows 2000 Server / Microsoft Corporation, 2000]

DMCA

DIGITAL MILLENNIUM COPYRIGHT ACT

[STEVEN LEVY, NEWSWEEK, 8/27/01]

dml

dATA MANIPULATION LANGUAGE

[MICROSOFT SQL SERVER 7.0 ADMINISTRATOR’S POCKET CONSULTANT, stanek, 1999]

DMS

DATABASE MANAGED SPACE

IBM DB2 UDB

[www.ibm.com; 2002]

DN

Distinguished Names

[WINDOWS 2000 ADMINISTRATOR’S HANDBOOK, LINSENBARDT & STIGLER, 2000]

DNA

DIGITAL NETWORK ARCHITECTURE

[MCSE Training Kit – Microsoft Windows 2000 Server / Microsoft Corporation, 2000]

DNIS

Dialed Number Identification Service

[WINDOWS 2000 ADMINISTRATOR’S HANDBOOK, LINSENBARDT & STIGLER, 2000]

DNS

DOMAIN NAME SYSTEM; ; Also see: DDNS;

[WINDOWS NT IN A NUTSHELL, pearce, 1997]

DNSIX

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION SYSTEM SECURITY FOR INFORMATION EXCHANGE

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

DOEACC

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONIC ACCREDIT COMPUTER COURSE

Indian government’s IT certifications

[Sasiwimon Boonruang, Tokyo, Bangkok Post, 2001]

DOS

DISK OPERATING SYSTEM

See: MS-DOS

DPA

DESTINATION PREFERENCE ATTRIBUTE

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

DPA

DISTRIBUTED PASSWORD AUTHENTICATION

[MICROSOFT FRONTPAGE 2002]

DPI

DOT PER INCH

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997] [Infoprint Designer for iSeries v.1, r.1 & AS/400]

DPMS

DISPLAY POWER MANAGEMENT SIGNALING

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

DPPU

DYNAMIC PROTOCOL PROCESSOR UNIT, or DYADIC PROTOCOL PROCESSOR UNIT;

[A GUIDE TO NETWORK PROCESSOR, LINLEY GWENNAP & BOB WHEELER, MICRODESIGN, 2000]

DRAM

DYNAMIC RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

DRM

DISTRIBUTED RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

[http://www.sun.com; 9/3/01]

DS

Digit select

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

DSA

DIRECTORY SERVICES/SERVER/SYSTEM  AGENT; DSA, on one AD DC in Windows;

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997] [Security Complete; Sybex; 2001]

DSLAM

Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer

Network management system with broadband access (Internet network-host Û Public Telephone Network)

[DATABASE, BANGKOK POST, 2001]

DSN

Data Source Names

[Desktop Applications with Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 : MCSD Training Kit
/ Microsoft Corporation, 1999]

DSP

DEVELOPER SERVICE PROVIDER

[ORACLE MAGAZINE, 2002]

DSPU

DOWNSTREAM PHYSICAL UNIT

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

DSR

DATA SET READY

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

DSS

DIGITAL SIGNATURE STANDARD

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

DT

DATA TYPE

DTC

Distributed Transaction Coordinator, See: MS DTC; Can install DTC on cluster, but (IIS, SMTP, NNTP) instances cannot be installed on 2003 cluster-platforms;

[Microsoft Cluster Administrator v.5; 2004]

DTD

DOCUMENT TYPE DEFINITION

[COLDFUSION STUDIO, ALLAIRE CORPORATION, 2000] www.allaire.com

DTE

DATA TERMINAL EQUIPMENT; Part of RS 232 specification;

[MCSE Training Kit – Microsoft Windows 2000 Server / Microsoft Corporation, 2000]

DTR

DATA TERMINAL READY

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

DTS

DATA TRANSFORMATION SERVICES

[MICROSOFT SQL SERVER 7.0 ADMINISTRATOR’S POCKET CONSULTANT, stanek, 1999]

DUAL

DIFFUSING UPDATE ALGORITHM

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

DUN

DIAL UP NETWORKING

See: RAS; Modem and telephone-connection are needed

[WINDOWS NT IN A NUTSHELL, pearce, 1997]

DVD

DIGITAL VIDEO DISC

[MCSE Training Kit – Microsoft Windows 2000 Server / Microsoft Corporation, 2000]

DVD ROM

Digital Video Disc Read Only Memory

DVM

DIGITAL VOLT METER

[MCSE Training Kit – Microsoft Windows 2000 Server / Microsoft Corporation, 2000]

DWH

DATA WAREHOUSE

[ORACLE MAGAZINE, 2002]

DXI

DATA EXCHANGE INTERFACE

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

EAP

Extensible authentication protocol

[WINDOWS 2000 ADMINISTRATOR’S HANDBOOK, LINSENBARDT & STIGLER, 2000]

EAR

ENTERPRISE APPLICATION ARCHIVE; ALSO SEE: WAR

[ORACLE MAGAZINE, 2002]

EAROM

Electrically Alterable Read Only Memory

[Microsoft Press, 1997]

EBCDIC

EXTENDED BINARY CODED DECIMAL INTERCHANGE CODE

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

ECMA

EUROPEAN COMPUTER MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

ECS

ENHANCED CATALOG SHARING; (MODE) Z/OS CATALOG MANAGEMENT

[ISOURCE.IBM.COM]

EDO DRAM

EXTENDED DATA OUT DYNAMIC RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

EDO RAM

EXTENDED DATA OUT RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

EEMS

ENHANCED EXPANDED MEMORY SPECIFICATION

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

EEPROM

ELECTRICALLY ERASABLE PROGRAMMABLE READ ONLY MEMORY

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

EFS

ENCRYPTION FILE SYSTEM

[WINDOWS 2000 ADMINISTRATOR’S HANDBOOK, LINSENBARDT & STIGLER, 2000]

EGA

ENHANCED GRAPHICS ADAPTER

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

EGP

EXTERIOR GATEWAY PROTOCOL

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

EIA

ELECTRONICS INDUSTRIES ASSOCIATION

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

EIDE

ENHANCED INTEGRATED DRIVE ELECTRONIC

Data transfer rate, up to 13.3 M Byte per second with ATA-2

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

EIGRP

ENHANCED INTERIOR GATEWAY ROUTING PROTOCOL

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

EIP

ETHERNET INTERFACE PROCESSOR

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

EISA

EXTENDED INDUSTRY STANDARD ARCHITECTURE

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

EJB

ENTERPRISE JAVA BEANS

[ORACLE MAGAZINE, 2002]

ELAN

EMULATED LAN

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

EM

End of Medium

[Microsoft Press, 1997]

EMS

EXPANDED MEMORY SPECIFICATION

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

ENQ

Enquiry

[Microsoft Press, 1997]

EO

Eight ones

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

EOT

End of Transmission

[Microsoft Press, 1997]

EPIC

ELECTRONIC PRIVACY INFORMATION CENTRE

[JAY DOUGHERTY, WASHINGTON, DPA, BANGKOK POST, 9/12/01]

EPROM

ERASABLE PROGRAMMABLE READ ONLY MEMORY

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

ERD

Emergency Repair Disk

[WINDOWS NT IN A NUTSHELL, pearce, 1997]

ERP

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING