part 2
The computer landscape is full of three-letter words. In the vast majority of cases, these are abbreviations and file extensions. We have gathered a complete alphabet and you can shine your light on it! Volume 2 (NZ)

John Vandeart

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A photo taken by a digital still camera undergoes quite a bit of digital processing before the computer is able to make anything out of it. The currently intended storage format is literally raw..

  1. NAS
  2. NEF
  3. NFO
  4. NTP

Want to bet that this brand and type of digital still camera can handle the file format we are looking for here?

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question 15 OCX

ActiveX is a technique that today’s Windows programs hardly use anymore. The file format we mean can be seen as the predecessor of the DLL.

    1. OCX
    2. OGG
    3. OSM
    4. OTF

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WordPressWordPress is the most popular Content Management System worldwide and it was created in this scripting programming language.

  1. PCL
  2. PDF
  3. PHP
  4. POP

You can create anything with WordPress: nl.wordpress.org.
WordPress is written in this programming language

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question17 QOS

This is a general term used to express the specific requirements for a particular service in the telecom world.

  1. QFX
  2. QIF
  3. QLC
  4. QOS

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Image 10ZIP is a technique used within Windows to work with compressed folders. Here we talk about the ZIP format competitor.

  1. RAM
  2. RAR
  3. RGB
  4. rpm

You can also compress a ZIP file and
decompress using the known
WinZip: www.winzip.com

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sql

A smart database is a database that you can program using a special language. What is the abbreviation for the most commonly used database programming language?

  1. SAN
  2. SMB
  3. sql
  4. SSO

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Image 11

It’s been a long time since computer letters were made up of 8 x 8 = 64 pixels. Nowadays you can make computer letters as small or as big as you want. Partly thanks to this file format.

  1. TAR
  2. TIF
  3. TMP
  4. TTF

You can’t really do that much with 8 x 8 = 64 pixels.
Yet – at the time – complete typefaces were made with it

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question21 usb

The true serial port and the true parallel port are all but extinct. And that is all the fault (…) of this ultimately super-fast and extremely versatile variant.

  1. UMB
  2. url
  3. USB
  4. UTP

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Not only Word and Excel can be completely programmed behind the scenes and therefore automated using this language.

  1. VBA
  2. VBR
  3. VFD
  4. VOB

Many Microsoft Office applications can be automated using this programming language.
Or have we already given too much away?

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question23 wwwWhen it was still young and innocent, it was a technique that allowed you to access data stored on other computers worldwide.

  1. WAN
  2. WK1
  3. WMV
  4. WWW

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Image 13

Internet programmers much prefer to work with JSON, which does not alter the fact that they still get to choose this sometimes somewhat unpleasant file format too often.

  1. XCF
  2. XEX
  3. XLS
  4. XML

Unfortunately, it is not always JSON that matters to the internet programmer. It could be worse

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question 25 yml

This is a storage format (executed in three letters) often used to build configuration files.

  1. YCC
  2. YCP
  3. YEL
  4. YML
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Image 14Again we are not talking about a compression format, but about a kind of floppy drive on which you can store 100 MB just like that.

  1. ZED
  2. ZIM
  3. zip
  4. ZRX

Let’s close easily…
This is the thing you are looking for

Quiz-328: Answers