SOA

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SOA may refer to:

Accounting and business

Sarbanes-Oxley Act, officially titled the Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act of 2002
Society of Actuaries, one of the two main professional societies of actuaries in the United States
State of the art, the highest level of development
Statement of Advice, a document that outlines the recommendation(s) of a financial planner about a particular entity's financial needs
Statement of Account

Safe operating area, the voltage and current conditions for a semiconductor to work reliably
Semiconductor optical amplifier, optical amplifiers that use a semiconductor to provide the gain medium

Same old architecture, technology and Internet slang
Search-oriented architecture, the use of search engine technology as the main integration component in an information system
Service-oriented architecture, a set of principles and methodologies for designing and developing software in the form of interoperable services
Start of Authority, an important record type in the Domain Name System (DNS)
Statement of Applicability, mandatory document for implementing an Information Security Management System (ISMS) with the methodology of ISO/IEC 27001.

Super Output Area, geographical region of the United Kingdom used mainly for statistical analysis

Sons of Angels, a band from Norway
Sons of Azrael, deathcore band from Buffalo, New York, formed in 2004
State of Alert, hardcore punk group formed in Washington, D.C. in 1980, and disbanded in 1981

Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn, 2nd computer role-playing game in the Baldur's Gate series from 2000
Shards of Alara, 2008 expansion set from the trading card game Magic: The Gathering
Siege of Avalon, 2000 computer role-playing game created by Digital Tome
Skies of Arcadia, console role-playing game developed by Overworks for the Dreamcast and published by Sega in 2000
Soldiers of Anarchy, squad-based real-time tactics computer game created by Silver Style Entertainment in 2002
The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar, 2007 massively multiplayer online role-playing game set in Tolkien's Middle-earth

School of the Americas, former name for the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHISC or WHINSEC), a U.S. Army training facility at Fort Benning, Georgia
School of the Arts (disambiguation)
Scottish Orienteering Association, association for orienteering in Scotland
Security and Intelligence Agency (Croatian: Sigurnosno-obavještajna agencija or SOA), Croatian security and intelligence service
Society of Ancients, UK-based, non-profit organization that promotes interest in Ancient & Medieval history and wargaming
Special Operations Australia, intelligence and special operations agency formed in 1942, currently known as the Services Reconnaissance Department
State Oceanic Administration, Chinese administrative agency, subordinate to the Ministry of Land and Resources