Braingle: 'Computing Acronyms 201' Trivia Quiz

Computing Acronyms 201

An acronym is a word formed from the initial letter(s) of each of the successive parts or major parts of a compound term. You may be familiar with many common computing acronyms, but do you know what they stand for?

Quiz ID:	#10618
Fun:	(2.38)
Difficulty:	(1.51)
Category:	Technology > Computers
Created By:	Scubee

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#1 What does NIC stand for?

National Institute of Computing
Network Interface Card
Numeric Internet Computer
National Interrupt Coordinate

#2 What does CAD stand for?

Computer Automation Development
Camera Assistance Device
Computer Aided Design
Compact Area Disk

#3 What does PCI stand for?

Printer Code Interface
Private Communication Interconnect
Printer Computer Interface
Peripheral Component Interconnect

#4 What does DIMM stand for?

Desktop Information Manager Module
Dual In-line Memory Module
Dynamic Information Manager Module
DIMention Module

#5 What does URL stand for?

Untimed Run Length
Universal Receiver Location
Uniform Resource Locator
Universal Read Locator

#6 What does MBR stand for?

Mounting BRacket
Minimal Boot Receiver
Music Backup Recorder
Master Boot Record

#7 What does AMD stand for?

#8 What does DHCP stand for?

Direct-Host Connected Protocol
Downloaded Hyper-Connected Protocol
Dedicated Host-Configured Protocol
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

#9 What does PDF stand for?

Personal Data File
Portable Document File
Personal Desktop File
Public Data File

#10 What does HD stand for?

Comments

lazygamer04

posted 665 days ago

8/10, nice quiz.

ICUB42

posted 665 days ago

Fun quiz! Please make more.

kendall148

posted 665 days ago

9/10 not bad for a non-geek.

DaleyK

posted 663 days ago

Let's see more of these!

giglet1959

posted 662 days ago

that was fun, but i'm ashamed of myself...on 2 questions, i didn't click all of the above....lol ...just clicked the top answer on both, and didn't bother to read the rest....very tricky...lol

harrier_rada

posted 605 days ago

Those all/none of the above where tricky, I went for the top answer on the first one. Didn't even notice the all/none options until the second one and had to re-read the whole quiz