| Hint | Sector | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2FA | Security | Two-factor authentication | 83%
|
| CPU | Chips | Central Processing Unit | 67%
|
| RAM | Hardware | Random Access Memory | 67%
|
| GUI | UI | Graphical User Interface | 65%
|
| ISP | Networking | Internet Service Provider | 60%
|
| RGB | Video | Red, Green, Blue | 60%
|
| IP | Networking | Internet Protocol | 58%
|
| LAN | Networking | Local Area Network | 58%
|
| VR | Media | Virtual Reality | 57%
|
| VPN | Networking | Virtual Private Network | 55%
|
| IoT | Devices | Internet of Things | 53%
|
| WAN | Networking | Wide Area Network | 53%
|
| FTP | Networking | File Transfer Protocol | 52%
|
| HTML | Websites | Hypertext Markup Language | 52%
|
| LED | Electronics | Light-Emitting Diode | 52%
|
| CD | Physical Media | Compact Disc | 50%
|
| HDD | Hardware | Hard Disk Drive | 50%
|
| P2P | Networking | Peer-To-Peer | 50%
|
| ROM | Hardware | Read-Only Memory | 50%
|
| SSD | Hardware | Solid-State Drive | 50%
|
| AWS | Servers | Amazon Web Services | 48%
|
| BSoD | Error | Blue Screen of Death | 48%
|
| USB | Hardware | Universal Serial Bus | 48%
|
| BIOS | Computing | Basic Input Output System | 47%
|
| CSS | Websites | Cascading Style Sheet | 47%
|
| CAD | Engineering | Computer-Aided Design | 47%
|
| LLM | AI | Large Language Model | 47%
|
| LCD | Hardware | Liquid Crystal Display | 47%
|
| VoIP | Communication | Voice over Internet Protocol | 47%
|
| HTTP | Networking | Hypertext Transfer Protocol | 45%
|
| VM | Software | Virtual Machine | 45%
|
| DDoS | Computing | Distributed Denial of Service | 42%
|
| FIFO | Computing | First In First Out | 42%
|
| WLAN | Networking | Wireless Local Area Network | 42%
|
| CSV | File Type | Comma-Separated Values | 40%
|
| CLI | Computing | Command Line Interface | 38%
|
| JDK | Software | Java Development Kit | 38%
|
| Wi-Fi | Networking | Wireless Fidelity | 38%
|
| DPI | Displays | Dots per inch | 37%
|
| GNU | Software | GNU's Not Unix | 37%
|
| OOP | Coding | Object-Oriented Programming | 37%
|
| BCC | Blind Carbon Copy | 35%
| |
| EULA | Legal | End User License Agreement | 35%
|
| PNG | File Type | Portable Network Graphics | 35%
|
| SaaS | Software | Software as a Service | 35%
|
| UX | Software | User Experience | 35%
|
| MMORPG | Gaming | Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game | 33%
|
| NAT | Networking | Network Address Translation | 33%
|
| NAS | Networking | Network-Attached Storage | 33%
|
| File Type | Portable Document Format | 33%
| |
| SSH | Software | Secure Shell | 33%
|
| SQL | Software | Structured Query Language | 33%
|
| VOD | Media | Video On Demand | 33%
|
| WYSIWYG | Software | What You See Is What You Get | 33%
|
| OTP | Security | One-Time Password | 30%
|
| PSU | Hardware | Power Supply Unit | 30%
|
| SDK | Software | Software Development Kit | 30%
|
| ALU | Chips | Arithmetic and Logical Unit | 28%
|
| IRC | Communication | Internet Relay Chat | 28%
|
| PoE | Networking | Power over Ethernet | 28%
|
| URL | Networking | Uniform Resource Locator | 28%
|
| AMD | Chips | Advanced Micro Devices | 27%
|
| CDN | Internet | Content Delivery Network | 27%
|
| DRM | Legal | Digital Rights Management | 27%
|
| JRE | Software | Java Runtime Environment | 27%
|
| JSON | Software | JavaScript Object Notation | 27%
|
| NFC | Hardware | Near-Field Communication | 27%
|
| OEM | Hardware | Original Equipment Manufacturer | 27%
|
| SEO | Software | Search Engine Optimization | 27%
|
| Y2K | Computing | Year Two Thousand | 27%
|
| Bash | Computing | Bourne-again shell | 25%
|
| DHCP | Networking | Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol | 25%
|
| PCB | Electronics | Printed Circuit Board | 25%
|
| RegEx | Software | Regular Expression | 25%
|
| RDP | Software | Remote Desktop Protocol | 25%
|
| SVG | File Type | Scalable Vector Graphics | 25%
|
| TTL | Networking | Time To Live | 25%
|
| DLL | Software | Dynamic Link Library | 23%
|
| FAT | File System | File Allocation Table | 23%
|
| FLOSS | Software | Free/Libre/Open-Source Software | 23%
|
| HDMI | Displays | High Definition Multimedia Interface | 23%
|
| IBM | Companies | International Business Machines | 23%
|
| MBR | Computing | Master Boot Record | 23%
|
| TTS | Accessibility | Text-to-Speech | 23%
|
| CRLF | Software | Carriage Return Line Feed | 22%
|
| FLOPS | Computing | Floating-Point Operations Per Second | 22%
|
| TLD | Internet | Top-Level Domain | 22%
|
| XSS | Security | Cross-Site Scripting | 20%
|
| XML | File Type | eXtensible Markup Language | 20%
|
| GIMP | Software | GNU Image Manipulation Program | 20%
|
| GIF | File Type | Graphics Interchange Format | 20%
|
| SMS | Communication | Short Message Service | 20%
|
| SMTP | Simple Mail Transfer Protocol | 20%
| |
| W3C | Organizations | World Wide Web Consortium | 20%
|
| AES | Security | Advanced Encryption Standard | 18%
|
| GCC | Software | GNU Compiler Collection | 18%
|
| MAC | Networking | Media Access Control | 18%
|
| NTP | Networking | Network Time Protocol | 18%
|
| RHEL | Software | Red Hat Enterprise Linux | 18%
|
| SHA | Security | Secure Hash Algorithm | 18%
|
| SoC | Hardware | System-on-a-Chip | 18%
|
| TLS | Security | Transport Layer Security | 18%
|
| ADC | Electronics | Analog-to-digital converter | 17%
|
| FPGA | Chips | Field Programmable Gate Array | 17%
|
| NVRAM | Hardware | Non-Volatile Random Access Memory | 17%
|
| RISC | Hardware | Reduced Instruction Set Computer | 17%
|
| SSO | Security | Single Sign On | 17%
|
| TPM | Security | Trusted Platform Module | 17%
|
| UPS | Hardware | Uninterruptible Power Supply | 17%
|
| YAML | Software | YAML Ain't Markup Language | 17%
|
| AMOLED | Display | Active-Matrix Organic Light-Emitting Diode | 15%
|
| FLAC | Codecs | Free Lossless Audio Codec | 15%
|
| GPG | Security | GNU Privacy Guard | 15%
|
| HID | Interaction | Human Interface Device | 15%
|
| PGP | Security | Pretty Good Privacy | 15%
|
| RFID | Hardware | Radio Frequency Identification | 15%
|
| RFC | Standards | Request For Comments | 15%
|
| SSL | Networking | Secure Socket Layer | 15%
|
| TCP/IP | Networking | Transmission Control Protocol Internet Protocol | 15%
|
| UDP | Networking | User Datagram Protocol | 15%
|
| FTTH | Infrastructure | Fiber To The Home | 13%
|
| JPEG | File Type | Joint Photographic Experts Group | 13%
|
| JBOD | Hardware | Just a Bunch Of Disks | 13%
|
| LTE | Networking | Long Term Evolution | 13%
|
| PHP | Software | Personal Home Page / PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor | 13%
|
| PID | Software | Process Identifier | 13%
|
| PKI | Security | Public Key Infrastructure | 13%
|
| RTC | Hardware | Real-Time Clock | 13%
|
| RAID | Hardware | Redundant Array of Independent Disks | 13%
|
| UUID | Software | Universally Unique Identifier | 13%
|
| VGA | Displays | Video Graphics Array | 13%
|
| WWDC | Apple | World Wide Developer Conference | 13%
|
| AAC | Codec | Advanced Audio Coding | 12%
|
| CAPTCHA | Security | Completely Automated Public Turing Test to tell Computers and Humans Apart | 12%
|
| CORS | Websites | Cross-Origin Resource Sharing | 12%
|
| CRC | Data Integrity | Cyclic Redundancy Check | 12%
|
| ESD | Electronics | Electrostatic Discharge | 12%
|
| ICMP | Networking | Internet Control Message Protocol | 12%
|
| MMS | Networking | Multimedia Message Service | 12%
|
| OOTB | Software | Out of the box | 12%
|
| PnP | Software | Plug-and-Play | 12%
|
| POST | Hardware | Power-On Self-Test | 12%
|
| RTF | Software | Rich Text Format | 12%
|
| RTL | Layout | Right-to-Left | 12%
|
| SCP | Software | Secure Copy | 12%
|
| SATA | Hardware | Serial Advanced Technology Attachment | 12%
|
| ASCII | Standards | American Standard Code for Information Interchange | 10%
|
| DVI | Displays | Digital Visual Interface | 10%
|
| FET | Electronics | Field Effect Transistor | 10%
|
| FSM | Computing | Finite State Machine | 10%
|
| LGPL | Legal | Lesser General Public License | 10%
|
| PDA | Hardware | Personal Digital Assistant | 10%
|
| RSI | Ouch | Repetitive Strain Injury | 10%
|
| TTY | Software | Teletype | 10%
|
| TTF | File Type | TrueType Font | 10%
|
| UEFI | Software | Unified Extensible Firmware Interface | 10%
|
| BJT | Electronics | Bipolar Junction Transistor | 8%
|
| BBS | Forums | Bulletin Board System | 8%
|
| CFD | Physics | Computational Fluid Dynamics | 8%
|
| DIMM | Chips | Dual Inline Memory Module | 8%
|
| EEPROM | Chips | Electronically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory | 8%
|
| EFF | Organizations | Electronic Frontier Foundation | 8%
|
| RPM | Software | RPM Package Manager | 8%
|
| VHD | Software | Virtual Hard Disk | 8%
|
| VRM | Electronics | Voltage Regulator Module | 8%
|
| ASIC | Chips | Application-Specific Integrated Circuit | 7%
|
| CVE | Security | Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures | 7%
|
| DSL | Communication | Digital Subscriber Line | 7%
|
| IEEE | Organizations | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | 7%
|
| I²C | Electronics | Inter-Integrated Circuit | 7%
|
| LDAP | Networking | Lightweight Directory Access Protocol | 7%
|
| MIDI | Audio | Musical Instrument Digital Interface | 7%
|
| NIST | Organizations | National Institute of Standards and Technology | 7%
|
| SDR | Communication | Software-Defined Radio | 7%
|
| sbin | Software | superuser binary | 7%
|
| VBA | Software | Visual Basic for Applications | 7%
|
| ALSA | Audio | Advanced Linux Sound Architecture | 5%
|
| CTAN | Repository | Comprehensive TeX Archive Network | 5%
|
| DPI | Networking | Deep Packet Inspection | 5%
|
| EAP | Security | Extensible Authentication Protocol | 5%
|
| GRUB | Software | Grand Unified Bootloader | 5%
|
| IANA | Organizations | Internet Assigned Numbers Authority | 5%
|
| IMAP | Internet Message Access Protocol | 5%
| |
| PCIe | Hardware | Peripheral Component Interconnect Express | 5%
|
| SWF | File Type | Shock Wave Flash | 5%
|
| BASIC | Programming | Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code | 3%
|
| GNOME | Software | GNU Network Object Model Environment | 3%
|
| HSDPA | Communication | High-Speed Downlink Packet Access | 3%
|
| NLE | Media | Non-Linear Editing | 3%
|
| ODBC | Software | Open Database Connectivity | 3%
|
| PCMCIA | Organizations | Personal Computer Memory Card International Association | 3%
|
| POSIX | Standards | Portable Operating System Interface | 3%
|
| REST | Software | Representational State Transfer | 3%
|
| RSS | Networking | Rich Site Summary / RDF Site Summary / Really Simple Syndication | 3%
|
| TFT | Electronics | Thin-Film Transistor | 3%
|
| WEP | Security | Wired Equivalent Privacy | 3%
|
| YaST | Linux | Yet another Setup Tool | 3%
|
| CHAP | Security | Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol | 2%
|
| EDGE | Communication | Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution | 2%
|
| EAS | Exchange ActiveSync | 2%
| |
| GSM | Communication | Global System for Mobile Communications | 2%
|
| IMEI | Communication | International Mobile Equipment Identity | 2%
|
| ITU | Organizations | International Telecommunication Union | 2%
|
| ICANN | Organizations | Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers | 2%
|
| L2TP | Networking | Layer Two Tunneling Protocol | 2%
|
| MPEG | File Type | Motion Pictures Experts Group | 2%
|
| MIME | Standards | Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions | 2%
|
| NURBS | Mathematics | Non-Uniform Rational B-Spline | 2%
|
| OoOE | Software | Out-of-Order Execution | 2%
|
| POP3 | Post Office Protocol v3 | 2%
| |
| RCA | Music | Radio Corporation of America | 2%
|
| SCSI | Hardware | Secure Computer System Interface | 2%
|
| SIM | Communication | Subscriber Identification Module | 2%
|
| TIFF | File Type | Tagged Image File Format | 2%
|
| WPA | Security | Wireless Fidelity Protected Access | 2%
|
| XMPP | Messaging | eXtensible Messaging and Presence Protocol | 0%
|
| MMF | Networking | Multi-Mode Fiber | 0%
|
| OASIS | Organizations | Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards | 0%
|
| PAP | Security | Password Authentication Protocol | 0%
|
| RTSP | Networking | Real-Time Streaming Protocol | 0%
|
| RTP | Networking | Real-time Transport Protocol | 0%
|
| SLI | Hardware | Scan-Line Interleave / Scalable Link Interface | 0%
|
| SSID | Networking | Service Set Identifier | 0%
|
| SCPI | Software | Standard Commands for Programmable Instruments | 0%
|
| SMPS | Hardware | Switch-Mode Power Supply | 0%
|
| UART | Hardware | Universal Asynchronous Receiver-Transmitter | 0%
|
| UMTS | Communication | Universal Mobile Telecommunications System | 0%
|
| VESA | Organizations | Video Electronics Standards Association | 0%
|
| ZMA | Networking | Zone Multicast Address | 0%
|