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