From December 2018 the NTA will be the exam conducting authority for the UGC NET. The UGC NET exam will be held twice a year in Online mode Only. The UGC NET consists of two papers.
Paper 1 is common for all the subject while paper 2 have the questions related to subject specific. Paper 1 of the UGC NET includes teaching aptitude, reasoning, general knowledge, and higher education. One of the important topics of paper 1 is Information Communication Technology (ICT).
IT consists brief knowledge of computer, technology, meaning, advantages, disadvantages and uses, General abbreviations and terminology of basics of internet and email etc. There will be around 5 questions from ICT in UGC NET paper 1.
In this blog, I am going to list out the important abbreviations with its full form and meaning. The knowledge of abbreviation and technical terms will help you to solve the questions of ICT in UG CNET exam. Check out the list of important of abbreviations from information communication technology.
Paper 1 is common for all the subject while paper 2 have the questions related to subject specific. Paper 1 of the UGC NET includes teaching aptitude, reasoning, general knowledge, and higher education. One of the important topics of paper 1 is Information Communication Technology (ICT).
IT consists brief knowledge of computer, technology, meaning, advantages, disadvantages and uses, General abbreviations and terminology of basics of internet and email etc. There will be around 5 questions from ICT in UGC NET paper 1.
In this blog, I am going to list out the important abbreviations with its full form and meaning. The knowledge of abbreviation and technical terms will help you to solve the questions of ICT in UG CNET exam. Check out the list of important of abbreviations from information communication technology.
Abbreviations Based on Computer Technology
S. No.
|
Abbreviation
|
Full-Form
|
1
|
PC
|
Personal Computer
|
2
|
MAC
|
Media Acces Control
|
3
|
UNIVAC
|
Universal Automatic Computer
|
4
|
ENIAC
|
Electronic Number Integrator And Calculator
|
5
|
EDSAC
|
Electronic Dialog Storage Automatic Computer
|
6
|
PCI
|
Peripheral Component Interconnect
|
7
|
BIOS
|
Basic Input and Output System
|
8
|
GUI
|
Graphics User Interface
|
9
|
CPU
|
Central Processing Unit
|
10
|
OS
|
Operating System
|
11
|
DVD
|
Digital Versatile Disc
|
12
|
CD
|
Compact Disk
|
13
|
ROM
|
Read Only Memory
|
14
|
PROM
|
Programmable Read Only Memory
|
15
|
EPROM
|
Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory
|
16
|
EEPROM
|
Electrical Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory
|
17
|
EAPROM
|
Electrical Alterable Programmable Read Only Memory
|
18
|
RAM
|
Random Access Memory
|
19
|
ALU
|
Arithmetic and Logic Unit
|
20
|
HDD
|
Hard Disk Drive
|
21
|
ASCII
|
American Standard Code for Information Interchange
|
22
|
EBCDIC
|
Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code
|
23
|
CSS
|
Cascading Style Sheet
|
24
|
WWW
|
World Wide Web
|
25
|
URL
|
Universal Resource Locator
|
26
|
USSD
|
Unstructured Supplementary Service Data
|
27
|
DIR
|
Directory
|
28
|
DOC
|
Document
|
29
|
PDA
|
Personal Digital Assistant
|
30
|
SEO
|
Search Engine Optimization
|
Abbreviations Based On Programming or Computer language
S. No.
|
Abbreviations
|
Full- Form
|
1
|
BASIC
|
Beginner All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
|
2
|
PERL
|
Practical Extraction and Report Language
|
3
|
VBS
|
Visual Basic Script
|
4
|
SMIL
|
Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language
|
5
|
CEH
|
Certified Ethical Hacking
|
6
|
DBMS
|
Database Management System
|
7
|
SQL
|
Structured Query Language
|
8
|
PHP
|
PHP Hypertext Preprocessor
|
9
|
COBOL
|
Common Basic Oriented Language
|
10
|
XBL
|
XML Binding Language
|
11
|
HTML
|
Hypertext Markup Language
|
12
|
XML
|
Extensible Mark-up Language
|
13
|
FORTRAN
|
Formula Translator
|
14
|
QBASIC
|
Quick Beginner’s All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
|
15
|
Prolog
|
Programming in logic
|
Abbreviations Based On Networking
S. No.
|
Abbreviations
|
Full- Form
|
1
|
WAN
|
Wide Area Network
|
2
|
LAN
|
Local Area Network
|
3
|
MAN
|
Metropolitan Area Network
|
4
|
PAN
|
Personal Area Network
|
5
|
CAN
|
Campus Area Network
|
6
|
VPN
|
Virtual Private Network
|
7
|
USB
|
Universal Serial Bus
|
8
|
AGP
|
Accelerated Graphic Port
|
9
|
VGA
|
Visual Graphic Adaptor
|
10
|
MHZ
|
Megahertz
|
11
|
GHZ
|
Gigahertz
|
12
|
CMD
|
Command
|
13
|
IP
|
Internet Protocol
|
14
|
HTTP
|
Hypertext Transfer Protocol
|
15
|
TCP
|
Transmission Control Protocol
|
16
|
IDE
|
Integrated Drive Electronics
|
17
|
SIM
|
Subscriber Identification Module
|
18
|
ISP
|
Internet Service Provider
|
19
|
SIMMs
|
Single In-line Memory Module
|
20
|
DIMMs
|
Dual In-line Memory Module
|
21
|
CMOS
|
Complimentary Metaoxide Semi-Conductor
|
22
|
IC
|
Integrated Circuit
|
23
|
LSIC
|
Large Scale Integrated Circuit
|
Abbreviations Based on File Type or Extensions
S. No.
|
Abbreviations
|
Full- Form
|
1
|
PDF
|
Portable Document Format
|
2
|
DOC
|
Microsoft Word Document
|
3
|
DOCX
|
Microsoft Word Open XML Document
|
4
|
TXT
|
Text File
|
5
|
SUB
|
Subtitle File
|
6
|
RTF
|
Rich Text Format File
|
7
|
FDR
|
Final Draft Document
|
8
|
MPEG
|
Moving Picture Experts Group
|
9
|
WMV
|
Windows Media Video
|
10
|
FLV
|
Flash Video
|
11
|
AVI
|
Audio Video Interleave
|
12
|
MP4
|
MPEG Layer 4
|
13
|
DivX
|
Digital Video Express (DivX-encoded Movie)
|
14
|
Mp3
|
MPEG Audio Layer 3
|
15
|
AIFF
|
Audio Interchange File Format
|
16
|
WAV
|
Waveform PCM Audio
|
17
|
WMA
|
Windows Media Audio
|
18
|
DAT
|
Digital Audio Tape
|
19
|
JPEG
|
Joint Photographic Experts Group
|
20
|
GIF
|
Graphics Interchange Format
|
21
|
PNG
|
Portable Network Graphics
|
22
|
TIFF
|
Tag Image File Format
|
23
|
BMP
|
Windows Bitmap
|
24
|
AC97
|
Audio Codec 97
|
25
|
Codec
|
Coder-Decoder
|
26
|
DVI
|
Digital Video Interactive
|
27
|
JAR
|
Java ARchive
|
Here, I have discussed important abbreviations from Information Communication Technology (ICT) of UGC NET General Paper 1.
Hope it will help you in general paper 1 preparation.
Hope it will help you in general paper 1 preparation.
If you find to add more abbreviations in the list, please do share in the comment section.