AD Active Directory - ANSWER The centralized directory database that allows for domain managment.
BCP Business Continuity Plan - ANSWER Plan focused on the longer term operation issues of the business. Identifies nece
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AD Active Directory - ANSWER The centralized directory database that allows for domain managment.
BCP Business Continuity Plan - ANSWER Plan focused on the longer term operation issues of the business. Identifies necessary assets for continuing business during event of a interruption.
BIA Business Impact Analysis - ANSWER Help understand impact of of disaster. Identifies:
Who is affected?
What is Affected?
Severity of Impact
BSOD Blue Screen of Death - ANSWER A stop error screen that sometimes appears when a Windows-based system is unable to boot. The BSOD screen includes failure codes that indicate the source of the problem.
CIDR Classless Inter-Domain Routing - ANSWER Classless routing allows the creation of subnets that are closer to the size needed waste less IP addresses and increases performance in each subnet due to reduced broadcast traffic.
CIFS Common Internet File System - ANSWER A file access protocol is also refered as simple message block (SMB).
CIMC Cisco Integrated Management Controller - ANSWER Provides management/monitoring for CISCO servers.
COOP Continuity of Operations - ANSWER All business processes are interrelated. Its important to involve the entire company in policy creation because they're affected.
DAS Direct Attached Storage - ANSWER Storage connected directly to a computer or server.
DC Domain Controller - ANSWER A server that responds to security authentication requests (logging in, checking permissions, etc.) and allowing access to domain resources.
DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol - ANSWER A network service that provides automatic
assignment of IP addresses and other TCP /IP configuration information.
UDP 68,68
DLP Data Loss Prevention - ANSWER Tools and systems to ensure data is not lost, misused, copied or accessed by unauthorized users.
DNS Domain Name Service - ANSWER TCP/IP name resolution system that translates a host name into an IP address.
DR Disaster Recovery - ANSWER Step by step recovery plans for applications, vendor contact information, and recovery prioritization of the systems that support the business.
EFS Encrypting File System - ANSWER
FAT File Allocation Table - ANSWER
FCoE Fibre Channel over Ethernet - ANSWER A technology that
encapsulates Fibre Channel frames
over Ethernet networks allowing FC
to use 10 Gigabit Ethernet networks
(or higher) while preserving the
Fibre Channel protocol.
FQDN Fully Qualified Domain Name - ANSWER The host name combined with the host's domain name.
GFS Grandfather Father Son - ANSWER Daily incremental backups which are referred to as Sons. These are rotated on a daily basis using the First-In-First-Out (FIFO) mechanism.
Weekly full backups which are referred to as Fathers. These are rotated on a weekly basis and promoted to Grandfather at the end of the week.
Monthly full archival backups which are referred to as Grandfathers. These are rotated on a monthly or quarterly basis.
GPO Group Policy Object - ANSWER
GPT GUID Partition Table - ANSWER
HBA Host Bus Adapter - ANSWER
HCL Hardware Compatibility List - ANSWER
HID Human Interface Device - ANSWER
HIDS Host Intrusion Detection System - ANSWER
HIPS Host Intrusion Prevention System - ANSWER
HVAC Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning - ANSWER
IDF Intermediate Distribution Frame - ANSWER
iDRAC Integrated Dell Remote Access Control - ANSWER
IDS Intrusion Detection System - ANSWER
IIS Internet Information Services - ANSWER
iLO Integrated Lights Out - ANSWER
Intel-VT Intel Virtualization Technology - ANSWER
IOPS Input Output Operations per Second - ANSWER
IP Internet Protocol - ANSWER
IP KVM Internet Protocol Keyboard-Video-Mouse - ANSWER
IPMI Intelligent Platform Management Interface - ANSWER
IPS Intrusion Prevention System - ANSWER
IPSEC Internet Protocol Security - ANSWER
IPv6 Internet Protocol version 6 - ANSWER
iSCSI Internetworking Small Computer System Interface - ANSWER
ISO International Organization for Standardization - ANSWER
JBOD Just a Bunch of Disks - ANSWER
KVM Keyboard-Video-Mouse - ANSWER
LAN Local Area Network - ANSWER
LC Lucent Connector/Little Connector - ANSWER
LDAP Lightweight Directory Access Protocol - ANSWER
LTO Linear Tape-Open - ANSWER
LUN Logical Unit Number - ANSWER
LVM Logical Volume Management - ANSWER
MAC Media Access Control - ANSWER
MBR Master Boot Record - ANSWER
MDF Main Distribution Frame - ANSWER
MFA Multifactor Authentication - ANSWER
MIB Management Information Base - ANSWER
MMC Microsoft Management Console - ANSWER
MRU Most Recently Used - ANSWER
MTBF Mean Time Between Failure - ANSWER
MTTR Mean Time to Recover - ANSWER
NAC Network Access Control - ANSWER
NAS Network Attached Storage - ANSWER
NAT Network Address Translation - ANSWER
NetBIOS Network Basic Input Output System - ANSWER
NFS Network File System - ANSWER
NIDS Network Intrusion Detection System - ANSWER
NIST National Institute of Standards and Technology - ANSWER
NLB Network Load Balancing - ANSWER
NOS Network Operating System - ANSWER
NTFS New Technology File System - ANSWER
NTP Network Time Protocol - ANSWER
OU Organizational Units - ANSWER
P2V Physical to Virtual - ANSWER
PAT Port Address Translation - ANSWER
PCI Peripheral Component Interconnect - ANSWER
PCI DSS Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard - ANSWER
PCIe Peripheral Component Interconnect Express - ANSWER
PCI-X Peripheral Component Interconnect Extended - ANSWER
PDU Power Distribution Unit - ANSWER
PII Personally Identifiable Information - ANSWER
PKI Public Key Infrastructure - ANSWER
POST Power on Self-Test - ANSWER
PXE Preboot Execution Environment - ANSWER
QSFP Quad-Small Form Factor Pluggable - ANSWER
RADIUS Remote Authentication Dial-in User Service - ANSWER
RAID Redundant Array of Inexpensive/Integrated Disks/Drives - ANSWER
RAS Remote Access Server - ANSWER
RDP Remote Desktop Protocol - ANSWER
ReFS Resilient File System - ANSWER
RFC Request for Comments - ANSWER
RFID Radio Frequency Identification - ANSWER
RIS Remote Installation Service - ANSWER
RJ45 Registered Jack 45 - ANSWER
RPM Rotations per Minute - ANSWER
RPO Recovery Point Objective - ANSWER
RTO Recovery Time Objective - ANSWER
SAN Storage Area Network - ANSWER
SAS Serial Attached SCSI - ANSWER
SATA Serial ATA - ANSWER
SC Standard Connector - ANSWER
SCCM System Center Configuration Management - ANSWER
SCP Secure Copy Protocol - ANSWER
SCSI Small Computer System Interface - ANSWER
SD Secure Digital - ANSWER
SELinux Security Enhanced Linux - ANSWER
SFP Small Form Factor Pluggable - ANSWER
SLA Service Level Agreement - ANSWER
SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol - ANSWER
SQL Structured Query Language - ANSWER
SSL Secure Sockets Layer - ANSWER
ST Straight Tip - ANSWER
TACACS Terminal Access Controller Access Control System - ANSWER
TCP Transmission Control Protocol - ANSWER
TCP/IP Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol - ANSWER
TLS Transport Layer Security - ANSWER
UAC User Account Control - ANSWER
UDP User Datagram Protocol - ANSWER
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