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Peripheral Device

PowerPoint Slideshow

Data Definition Language

IT Terms beginning with P

P2P Architecture

P2P File Sharing

PA

Pacemaker Hacker

Packet Analyzer

Packet Collision Rate

Packet Filtering

Packet Reservation Multiple Access (PRMA)

Packet Switched Network (PSN)

Packet Switching

Pages Per Minute (PPM)

Pages Per Visit (Pages/Visit)

Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)

Pantone Matching System (PMS)

Paperless Office

Parallax Scrolling

Parallel Computing

Parallel Data Analysis

Parallel Functional Programming

Parallel Interface

Parallel Method Invocation (PMI)

Parallel Processing

Parallel Processing Software

Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM)

Parameter (param)

Parameterized Query

Parametric Polymorphism

Parasite Hosting

Paravirtualization

Paravirtualized Operating System

Parent Partition

Parental Control Software

Partial Document Encryption (PDE)

Partially Observable Markov Decision Process (POMDP)

Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO)

Partitioning Code

Partner Relationship Management (PRM)

Passive Biometrics

Passive Component

Passive Fault Management

Passive File Transfer Protocol (PASV FTP)

Passive Network

Passive Optical Network (PON)

Passive Reconnaissance

Passive Surveillance

Password Authentication Protocol (PAP)

Password Breaker

Password Cracking

Password Generator

Password Hardening

Password Manager

Password Protection

Password Salting

Password Sniffer

Passwordless Authentication

Patch Management

Path Coverage Testing

Patient Relationship Management

Pattern Matching

Pattern Recognition

Pay As You Go (PAYG)

Pay Per Click (PPC)

Pay Per Lead (PPL)

Pay to Play (P2P)

Payment Application Data Security Standard (PA-DSS)

Payment Application Qualified Security Assessor (PA-QSA)

Payment Card Industry (PCI)

Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)

Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council (PCI SSC)

Payment Gateway

PB

Pb

PC

PC

PCI Compliance Audit

PCI Extended (PCI-X)

PCI Mezzanine Card (PMC)

PCI-Compliant Hosting

Peak-to-Peak (pk-pk)

Pebibit (Pibit or Pib)

Peer-To-Peer (P2P)

Peer-to-Peer Architecture (P2P Architecture)

Peer-To-Peer File Sharing (P2P File Sharing)

Peer-To-Peer Network (P2P Network)

Peering Agreement

Peering Exchange

Pending Larry Quote

Penetration Testing (Pen-Testing)

Penetration Testing Tool

Pentium II (PII)

Perceptual Computing

Percussive Maintenance

Perfect Forward Secrecy (PFS)

Performance Counter

Performance Management

Performance Management System

Performance Reference Model (PRM)

Performance Testing

Perimeter Security

Peripheral Component Interconnect Bus (PCI Bus)

Peripheral Component Interconnect Express - PCI Express (PCI-E)

Peripheral Component Interconnect Modem (PCI Modem)

Peripheral Device

Peripheral Equipment

Peripheral Interface Controller (PIC)

Permanent Link (Permalink)

Permanent Virtual Circuit (PVC)

Permanently Assigned Multiple Access (PAMA)

Permission Marketing

Persistent Cookie

Persistent Desktop

Persistent URL (PURL)

Persistent-State World (PSW)

Personal Access Communications System (PACS)

Personal Address Book (PAB)

Personal Area Network (PAN)

Personal Communications Service (PCS)

Personal Computer (PC)

Personal Computer Game (PC Game)

Personal Digital Assistant (PDA)

Personal Firewall

Personal Health Information (PHI)

Personal Health Record (PHR)

Personal Identification Number (PIN)

Personal Identity Verification Card (PIV Card)

Personal Information Manager (PIM)

Personal Java (PJ)

Personal Supercomputer (PSC)

Personal System/2 (PS/2)

Personal Web Server (PWS)

Personalization

Personalized Marketing

Personally Identifiable Financial Information (PIFI)

Personally Identifiable Information (PII)

Pervasive Computing

Peterson's Algorithm

Phantom Vibration Syndrome

Phase Alternating Line (PAL)

Phase Change Memory (PCM)

Phase-Change Cooling

Phase-Locked Loop (PLL)

Phase-Of-The-Moon Bug

Phase-Shift Keying (PSK)

Photoblog (Plog)

Photonic Crystal Display

Photonic Crystal Fiber (PCF)

Photovoltaic Cell (PV Cell)

PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP)

PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor 3.0 (PHP 3)

PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor 4.0 (PHP 4)

Physical Access

Physical Address

Physical Computer

Physical Data Model

Physical Neural Network

Physical Security

Physical To Virtual (P2V)

Physical Topology

Physical Unit Number (PUN)

PI

Picosecond (ps)

Pierre Salinger Syndrome

Piezoelectric Accelerometer

Piezoelectricity

Piggyback Email

Pigs And Chickens

Pin Grid Array (PGA)

Ping Pong Virus

Pipeline Burst Cache (PB Cache)

Pixel Pipelines

Pixels Per Inch (PPI)

PJ

PKI Certificate

PL

Plain Old Telephone Service (POTS)

Plain Old XML (POX)

Planck's Constant

Planned Downtime

Planned Obsolescence

Platform Agnostic

Platform as a Service (PaaS)

Platform Development Kit (PDK)

Platform For Privacy Preferences Project (P3P)

Platform Security

Player Versus Environment (PvE)

Player Versus Player (PvP)

Playfair Cipher

Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy (PDH)

Plug and Play (PnP)

Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM)

PM

PM

PN

Pocket Calculator

Pocket PC (PPC)

Point and Shoot

Point of Presence (POP)

Point of Sale (POS)

Point of Sale Terminal (POS Terminal)

Point-to-Multipoint Communication (PMP)

Point-to-Point Encryption (P2PE)

Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP)

Point-to-Point T1

Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP)

Point-To-Point Videoconference

Point-to-Point Wireless Bridge

Policy Awareness

Polish Notation (PN)

Polled Interrupt

Polylactic Acid (PLA)

Polymer LED (PLED)

Polymorphic Malware

Polymorphic Virus

Polyphonic Ringtone

Port (an Application)

Port Address Translation (PAT)

Port Forwarding

Port Multiplier

Port Replicator

Port Triggering

Port-to-Application Mapping

Portable Computer

Portable Device

Portable Document Format (PDF)

Portable Mesh Repeater

Portable Network Graphics (PNG)

Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX)

Portable Software

Portal (Internet)

Portal Application

Post Office Protocol (POP)

Post-Processing Deduplication (PPD)

Postal Numeric Encoding Technique (POSTNET)

Postel's Prescription

PostScript (PS)

PostScript Printer

Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP)

Potentiometer (Pot)

Power Adaptive Algorithms

Power Amplifier (PA)

Power Conditioner

Power Distribution Unit (PDU)

Power Leveling (PL)

Power Line Communications (PLC)

Power Line Ethernet Bridge

Power Macintosh (Power Mac)

Power Management

Power Over Ethernet (PoE)

Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE)

Power-On Self Test (POST)

Power-Up In Standby (PUIS)

PowerPoint Singalong

PowerPoint Slideshow (PPT)

Practical Extraction and Report Language (Perl)

Practice Management Software (PMS)

Preboot Execution Environment (PXE)

PRECISE Act of 2011

Precision Cooling

Predictive Alerting

Predictive Analytics

Predictive Analytics Tools

Predictive Data Mining

Predictive Dialer

Predictive Maintenance

Predictive Model Markup Language (PMML)

Predictive Modeling

Predictive Technology

Predictive Text

Preemptive Multitasking

Premium Content

Preprocessor Directive

Prescriptive Analytics

Presentation Layer

Presentation Manager (PM)

Presentation Software

Presidential Policy Directive (PPD-8)

Pressure Sensor

Pretty Good Privacy (PGP)

Primary Rate Interface (PRI)

Primary Storage Device

Primitive Data Type

Principal Component Analysis (PCA)

Principle of Least Privilege (POLP)

Print Management

Print Management Software (PMS)

Print on Demand (POD)

Print Screen Key (PRTSC)

Print Server (PSERVER)

Print Server Management

Printed Circuit Board (PCB)

Printer Command Language (PCL)

Printer Driver (.PRD)

Printer Sharing

Priority Scheduling

Privacy International (PI)

Privacy Management Tools

Private Access DSL (PADSL)

Private Automatic Branch Exchange (PABX)

Private Branch Exchange (PBX)

Private Browsing

Private Cloud Computing

Private Cloud In A Box

Private Cloud Storage

Private File Sharing

Private Network

Problem Management

Problem Program

Procedural Language

Procedural Language/Structured Query Language (PL/SQL)

Procedural Programming

Process Manufacturing Enterprise Resource Planning (Process Manufacturing ERP)

Process Manufacturing ERP

Process Specification

Processing Capacity

Processing In Memory (PIM)

Processor Emulation

Processor Register

Product Activation

Product Data Management (PDM)

Product Information Management (PIM)

Product Introduction

Product Life Cycle

Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)

Product Management

Product Manager

Product Obsolescence

Product Quality Management (PQM)

Product Release

Production Environment

Production Grade

Production Server

Professional Services Automation (PSA)

Program Counter (PC)

Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT)

Program Evaluation Review Technique Chart (PERT Chart)

Program Manager

Programmable Logic Array (PLA)

Programmable Network Access (PNA)

Programmable Read-Only Memory (PROM)

Programmatic Advertising

Programmed Data Processor (PDP)

Programmer's Day

Programming Concurrency

Programming Language

Programming Language Generations

Programming Language I (PL/I)

Programming Language One (PL/I)

Programming Language/System (PL/S)

Programming Logic

Programming Tool

Progression Gameplay

Progressive Download

Progressive Video

Progressive Web App (PWA)

Project Administrator

Project Analyst

Project Control Officer

Project Director

Project Health Checks (PHC)

Project Management

Project Management Institute (PMI)

Project Management Office (PMO)

Project Management Professional (PMP)

Project Management Software

Project Manager (PM)

Project Planning

Project Portfolio Management (PPM)

PRojects IN Controlled Environments (PRINCE2)

Promiscuous Mode

Promoting and Enhancing Cybersecurity and Information Sharing Effectiveness Act of 2011 (PRECISE Act of 2011)

Prompt-Based Learning

Proof of Concept (POC)

Proof of Importance (PoI)

Proof of Stake (PoS)

Proof of Work (PoW)

Proof-of-Concept Virus

Proprietary Software

PROTECT IP Act of 2011 (PIPA)

Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol (PEAP)

Protected Health Information (PHI)

Protocol Buffer

Protocol Conversion

Protocol Converter

Protocol Data Unit (PDU)

Protocol-Independent Multicast (PIM)

Protocol-Transparent

Prototype-Based Programming

Provisioning (Computer Networking)

Provisioning (Computing)

Provisioning (Telecommunications)

Proximity Marketing

Proximity Sensor

PS

ps

PS/2 Connector (PS/2)

Pseudo Random Number Generator (PRNG)

Pseudonym (nym)

Pseudowire (PW)

Public Cloud Storage

Public Domain Software

Public Key Cryptography (PKC)

Public Key Cryptography Standards (PKCS)

Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)

Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP)

Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN)

Public-Key Infrastructure Certificate (PKI Certificate)

Publishers Requirements for Industry Standard Metadata (PRISM)

Pulse Amplitude Modulation (PAM)

Pulse Code Modulation (PCM)

Pulse Width Modulation (PWM)

Punchdown Block

Push Technology

Push to Talk Over Cellular (PoC)

Push-to-Talk (PTT)

PV

PW