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ACRONYM LIST
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    ACI
        Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco product)

    ACL
        Access Control List

    AD
        Active Directory

    ADCS
        Active Directory Certificate Services

    APIC
        Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (Cisco product)

    AU
        Allocation Unit

    BIOS
        Basic Input Output System

    BIT
        Built-In-Test

    CA
        Certificate Authority

    CD
        Compact Disk

    CIFS
        Common Internet File System

    COTS
        Commercial Off The Shelf

    CRL
        Certificate Revocation List

    DB
        Database

    DBA
        Database Administration

    DHCP
        Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

    DNS
        Domain Name System

    DVD
        Digital Versatile Disk

    ER
        Engineering Release

    ESD
        Electrostatic Discharge

    ESXi
        VMware vSphere Hypervisor

    EULA
        End User Licensing Agreement

    EWS
        Exchange Web Services

    FC
        Fiber Channel

    FQDN
        Fully Qualified Domain Name

    FRA
        Flash Recovery Area

    GB
        Gigabyte

    GPO
        Group Policy Object

    GPU
        Graphics Processing Unit

    GRUB
        GRand Unified Bootloader

    GUI
        Graphical User Interface

    HA
        High Availability

    HBA
        Host Bus Adapter

    HDD
        Hard Disk Drive

    IIS
        Internet Information Services

    ILOM
        Integrated Lights Out Management

    IP
        Internet Protocol

    IPv4
        Internet Protocol Version 4

    IPv6
        Internet Protocol Version 6

    ISO
        International Organization for Standardization.  Also short for iso9660.

    ISO9660
        A file system standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) for optical disc media.

    KB
        Kilobyte

    KMS
        Key Management Service

    LAN
        Local Area Network

    LDAP
        Lightweight Directory Access Protocol

    LGPO
        Local Group Policy Object

    LUN
        Logical Unit

    MB
        Megabyte

    NAS
        Network Attached Storage

    NFS
        Network File System

    NIC
        Network Interface Card

    NTP
        Network Time Protocol

    OS
        Operating System

    OVA
        Open Virtual Appliance

    POST
        Power On Self Test

    PXE
        Preboot Execution Environment

    RAID
        Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks

    RHEL
        Red Hat Enterprise Linux

    RSA
        Rivest Shamir Adelman Algorithm

    SAN
        Storage Area Network

    SAS
        Serial Attached SCSI

    SATA
        Serial Advanced Technology Attachment

    SELinux
        Security-Enhanced Linux

    SCP
        Service Connection Point or Secure Copy (part of the SSH suite)

    SCSI
        Small Computer Standard Interface

    SFTP
        Secure File Transfer Protocol (part of the SSH suite)

    SHA
        Secure Hash Algorithm

    SIEM
        Security Information and Event Management
        
    SIP
        Session Initiation Protocol

    SMB
        Server Message Blocks

    SMTP
        Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

    SNMP
        Simple Network Management Protocol

    SP
        Service Pack (Windows context)

    SRV
        Service Record in DNS

    SSD
        Solid State Disk

    SSH
        Secure Shell

    SSO
        Single Sign-On

    TB
        Terabyte

    TBD
        To Be Determined

    TCP
        Transmission Control Protocol

    TFTP
        Trivial File Transfer Protocol

    TLS
        Transport Layer Security

    UAC
        User Account Control (Windows security feature)

    UEFI
        Unified Extensible Firmware Interface

    UDP
        User Datagram Protocol

    UI
        User Interface

    URL
        Uniform Resource Locator

    USB
        Universal Serial Bus

    VM
        Virtual Machine

    WDS
        Windows Deployment Services

    WSUS
        Windows Server Update Services

    WWN
        World Wide Name (Unique Identifier)

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