SOA explained

SOA may refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Safe operating area, the recommended voltage and current conditions for a semiconductor
Semiconductor optical amplifier
Service-oriented architecture, a set of software design principles and methodologies
- SOA governance, a concept for services control in such an architecture
- SOA security
SOA record (for start of authority), a type of resource record in the Domain Name System (DNS)
Statement of Applicability (SoA), an ISO/IEC 27001 document for information security management systems
Structure of arrays, a method of arranging records in memory

School of the Americas, now the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, a U.S. Department of Defense training facility
Siksha 'O' Anusandhan (SOA University), Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
Security and Intelligence Agency, (Croatian: Sigurnosno-obavještajna agencija or SOA), in Croatia
Scottish Orienteering Association
Society of Actuaries, in North America
Society of Ancients, a UK-based ancient and medieval history and war gaming organization
Society of Authors, a British writers' trade union
Spirit of America (charity), a US non-governmental nonprofit organization promoting American values abroad
Special Operations Australia, a.k.a. Services Reconnaissance Department, a World War II agency
State Oceanic Administration, a Chinese administrative agency
Swiss Olympic Association

Secondary organic aerosol, a type of particulate matter produced by combustion engines
Southampton Airport Parkway railway station, in Eastleigh, Hampshire, England
Stimulus onset asynchrony, a measure used in experimental psychology
Super output areas, geographical regions defined in the U.K. ONS coding system
Statement of account