Important Abbreviations Questions and Answers

Answer: A

Correct answer: Hard Disk Drive

HDD is Hard Disk Drive: rigid magnetic platters spinning inside a sealed unit, as against the solid-state drive that has largely replaced it.

Answer: B

Correct answer: High Definition Television

HDTV is High Definition Television, with 720 or 1080 lines against the 480 or 576 of the earlier standards.

Answer: A

Correct answer: Hypertext Markup Language

HTML is Hypertext Markup Language: it marks up a document with tags describing its structure, and the hypertext is the linking that makes the web.

Answer: C

Correct answer: Hypertext Transfer Protocol

HTTP is the Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the request-and-response protocol by which a browser asks a server for a page.

Answer: C

Correct answer: International Business Machines

IBM is International Business Machines, founded under that name in 1924.

Answer: D

Correct answer: Internet Explorer

IE is Internet Explorer, Microsoft's browser, superseded by Edge.

Answer: B

Correct answer: Internet Protocol

IP is the Internet Protocol, which addresses packets and routes them between networks.

Answer: D

Correct answer: Internet Relay Chat

IRC is Internet Relay Chat, the protocol for real-time text conversation in channels, in use since 1988.

Answer: A

Correct answer: Internet Service Provider

An ISP is an Internet Service Provider - the company that connects a subscriber to the internet.

Answer: B

Correct answer: Joint Photographic Experts Group

JPEG is named after the Joint Photographic Experts Group, the committee that produced the standard. It is lossy compression, which is why repeated saving degrades a photograph.