SOA

SOA may refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

 * Siege of Avalon, a 2000 computer role-playing game
 * Soldiers of Anarchy, a 2002 real-time tactics computer game
 * Sons of Anarchy, an FX television series about a motorcycle club
 * Sons of Azrael, a deathcore band from Buffalo, New York
 * State of Alert, a hardcore punk group formed in Washington, D.C.

Computing and technology

 * 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

Enterprises and organizations

 * 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

Sports

 * SOA (basketball club), in Yamoussoukro, Ivory Coast
 * SOA (football club), in Yamoussoukro, Ivory Coast

Other uses

 * 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