Important Abbreviations Questions and Answers

Answer: B

Correct answer: Wide Area Network

A WAN is a Wide Area Network - one spanning cities or countries, as against the LAN's single site.

Answer: C

Correct answer: Metropolitan Area Network

A MAN is a Metropolitan Area Network, larger than a LAN and smaller than a WAN: it covers a city.

Answer: B

Correct answer: Liquid Display Unit

LDU is given as Liquid Display Unit - the display panel itself, as distinct from the LCD technology it uses.

Answer: A

Correct answer: Gateway Internet Access Service

GIAS was the Gateway Internet Access Service, the dial-up service through which VSNL first offered public internet access in India in 1995.

Answer: B

Correct answer: DeskTop Publishing

DTP is Desktop Publishing - composing pages with text and graphics on a personal computer, work that once required a typesetter.

Answer: D

Correct answer: File Allocation Table

The FAT is the File Allocation Table, the map at the start of a disk that records which clusters belong to which file and which are free.

Answer: C

Correct answer: Wireless Fidelity

Wi-Fi is commonly expanded as Wireless Fidelity, on the model of Hi-Fi, though it was coined as a brand name for the IEEE 802.11 standards rather than as an abbreviation.

Answer: C

Correct answer: Random Access Memory

The name reflects that any location can be reached in the same time, without reading through what precedes it as a tape would require. RAM is volatile, so its contents are lost when power is removed.

Answer: C

Correct answer: Command User Interfaces

A CUI is a command, or character, user interface - one driven by typed commands, as against the GUI's windows and pointer.

Answer: B

Correct answer: Very Large Scale Integrated

VLSI is Very Large Scale Integration - hundreds of thousands of transistors or more on one chip, the degree of integration that made the microprocessor possible.